Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 8, No 2, November 2018

Detail: Faith McManus ‘Rolling around Heaven all day’, Woodcut, 2016

The contributions in this issue have been gathered together from various sources including a number of events addressing the themes of this issue. Primarily, these were the Turning Point: Creative Arts and Trauma symposium (University of Canberra, 7 June 2017), and the Narratives of Health and Wellbeing Research Conference (CQUniversity, Noosa campus, 26–27 October 2017). In addition, a series of interviews generated from the ARC-funded project, Understanding Creative Excellence: A Case Study in Poetry (DP130100402) sparked the idea of recruiting more conversations between creative practitioners working in a range of art practices: poetry, prose fiction, film and visual art in particular. Together, these contributions comprise a fascinating, revealing and sometimes provocative collection.

Read the full introduction.

Editors for this issue: Jen Webb and Donna Lee Brien, with Cassandra Atherton

Image: Detail from ‘Rolling around Heaven all day’ by Faith McManus