Axon: Creative Explorations

Part 2

Part 1

Haunted crossings

Writing between presence and absence

Introduction by Christina Lee, Wayne Price and Rachel Robertson

Reflections on the sea in Jimmy Chi’s musical Corrugation Road

Essay by Anna Haebich

The Convalescence; Soft, Unbreakable Creatures; The Generals; Latecomers; Procession

Poetry by Wayne Price

Haunted spaces in post-agreement Northern Ireland

Essay by Shane Alcobia-Murphy

‘Walliman’

Re-writing the trial of Jonet Rendall

Essay and fiction by Ashleigh Angus

Finding Thomas Browne (1540-1597); The Monkey Face Bag

Poetry by Lucy Dougan

Sebald’s Restless Places

Relativity and the past in writing about place

Essay by Daniel Juckes

Part 2

Sapozhkelekh

Story and a reflection

Essay and fiction by Helen Lynch

Confluence… & The uncanny tree…

Poetry by John Kinsella

Speaking from the shadows

The spectrality of adolescence in the novels of Vikki Wakefield

Essay by Adam Kealley

Northborough sonnets; A pine wood in North Africa

Poetry by David Wheatley

All of us, haunted and haunting

Essay by Marie O’Rourke

Clay, paper, glass

Memoir by Rachel Robertson

Part 3

‘A Tale of Two Slippers’

Uncanny parody, power and the performance of writing

Essay and fiction by Deborah Hunn

Laughing at injuries (Isabella’s erasure)

Poetry by Alexandra Lewis

Spectral spaces in eternal cities

Essay by Joanna Vadenbring

The Psychic as Storyteller

Kennedy's The Blue Book, Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, and 'Madame Moon'

Essay and fiction by Lily Greenall

Unguarded moments

Spectral spaces of the unsuspecting mind

Essay by Anne Ryden

Was that lady your mother, dear?; Calm, calm intelligence

Poetry by Susan Bradley-Smith