Creative manoeuvres: writing, making, being

Creative Manoeuvres is a collection of new writings on a topic of enduring interest: the role of creative practice in the formation of knowledge. The contributors to this collection are primarily creative writers, working in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and ethnography. Many include the visual or performing arts within their practice; and all are academics as well as creative writers. Their chapters move the study of creative writing beyond subjective accounts of 'how I write' towards broader issues of how knowledge is addressed by, or incorporated into, or embodied in, art. Each chapter does double duty as a case study on approaches to creative and research work, both describing and critically exploring the strategies, or 'creative manoeuvres', these writers have adopted to advance their practice in both creative and critical domains. In this way, the book not only exemplifies moves in the contemporary academy to understand better the value creative practice can offer to the university, but also provides a rich and engaging set of narratives about ways of being, ways of making and ways of coming to know. In both practical and theoretical modes, it contributes to the ongoing questions about creativity andlversus scholarship that have been debated over recent decades.

Machine generated contents note: Self extraction / Ross Gibson -- Circles and intersections: A practice-led exploration into poetry and visual affect / Jen Webb -- In the footsteps of the Ancestors: Oral fixations and ethical walking on the last great Songline / Glenn Morrison -- Sonqoqul: Excavating mt. Llullaillaco via a metaphor of weaving / Shari Kocher -- Writing and the 'moved' subject: Or, how black comes from blue but is more than the blue / Cher Coad -- Write this down: Phenomenology of the page / Monica Carroll -- Spectral bodies of thought: A materialist feminist approach to Conceptual Writing / Kay Rozynski -- The collaborative interview / Sonya Voumard -- David Shields' way of making: Creative manoeuvre or HDR nightmare? / Carolyn Rickett -- Situating the creative response / Shane Strange -- Elder-flowering: Creative resistance and the theatre of endurance -- or vice versa: An introduction to a research project-in-progress / Peta Murray -- Small stories from two decades / Michele Leggott.