Part 1

Introduction

Essay by Caren Florance, Jen Webb and Jordan Williams

Axonalogue

5 years of experiential materiality

Essay by Caren Florance

Individuality & Yet another book: Artists’ Books

Essay by Ulrike Stoltz

Altered books

Materiality and Poetics

Essay by Bärbel Ullrich

Given in the flesh

A phenomenology of handedness through Erika Mordek’s bookwork

Essay by Monica Carroll

Natural selection

A translation-in-progress of Bestiario (2014) by Beatriz Restrepo

Translations by Kay Are

‘Paint her to your own mind’

Re-inflecting Laurence Sterne’s 18th-century gesture

Essay by Paul Munden and Paul Hetherington

Loose threads

Materialising the poetics of celebrity death, discarded flannel and art making as memento mori

Essay by Ursula K Frederick

Part 2

‘Inside a radio’

a stop motion animation (video)

Video by Nicci Haynes

‘VIOLENCE COVERS THEM AS A GARMENT’ (Psalm 73)

Essay by Ross Gibson

Where do pearls come from?

Essay by Marian Crawford

Pause poem

Essay and poem by Peter Anderson

Read to me

A psychometric collaboration with objects

Essay by Sarah Bodman

Phillips Fox: A Pair of Paintings

Poetry by Geoff Page

Thirteen meditations on the untranslatable

Etchings and poetry by Angela Gardner

Words for Climbing Landscapes

Essay by Bridget Hillebrand

Part 3

What rubbish

Ecologies of vibrant matter in contemporary poetry

Essay by A Frances Johnson

Skywriting

Essay by Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

Vocal Womb and the ekphrasis machine (we die)

Collaborative text by Virginia Barratt and Quinn Eades

skinvisible; Turnings

Poetry by Jackson

Across speak and/or waywardness

Collaborative text by Martina Copley and Francesca Rendle-Short

Into the Third Space

Comics and creative writing: Teaching and researching graphic narratives in a creative writing context

Essay by Elizabeth MacFarlane, Ronnie Scott and Bernard Caleo

The Possibilities of Water

Materiality, poetics and collaboration

Essay by Lorraine Webb and Jen Webb

The poetic line 1

The poetic line

Recent innovations

Introduction by Owen Bullock

DANCING DUPPY

Notes from two workshops by Anthony McNeill

Essay by Vahni Capildeo

A ‘Meandering’ Line

The Effect of Indeterminacy in a Gallery Ekphrasis

Essay by Dominic Symes

Soft text and the open line

Essay by Lisa Samuels

Exotropia; Breakers

Poetry by Sarah Rice

Seamripper

Poetry by Melinda Bufton

Quick thoughts on the line

Essay by Melinda Smith

The poetic line 2

‘Like a Japanese Christmas Card’

Line in poetry and art

Essay by Jack Ross

Three poems

Poetry by Mara Adamitz Scrupe

The White Devil

Poetry by Alistair Paterson

Glucie

Poetry by Jen Crawford

mothful

Poetry by Melinda Smith

Down to the line

Five points connected up

Essay by Sarah Rice

Personal rules

Individual purpose and the poetic line

Essay by Paul Munden