Language
EnglishResearch statement
Background
The work is a collaborative lyric essay in mutual-interview form, by Indigo Perry and Dani Netherclift. The work asks: how might reflection on a shared experience of grief by two writers and how they have engaged that grief in creative writing practice reveal insights into ways catastrophic grief experiences may shape writers’ poetics?
Contribution
The work contributes significantly to research into grief, elegiac form, and collaborative creative writing practices. As the commissioning editor writes in the work’s introduction: ‘This exchange highlights how the intangibility of grief potently forms an invaluable insight into [the authors’] experiences are forced upon their understanding of writing poetics. Such an exchange trusts the reader to embrace their account tenderly when considering how to challenge elegiac traditions.’ The work was created through collaborative improvisational processes whereby one improvised a fragment, with the other ‘riffing’ off the fragment to write another, etc. It inters
Significance
The work was commissioned and published in highly esteemed Australian poetry journal Cordite Poetry Review, September 2022.Publication classification
JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual WorkScale
NTRO MinorIssue
106Publisher
Cordite PublishingPlace of publication
Melbourne, Vic.Source
Cordite Poetry Review
