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Pound Bend/Cambridge Dreaming/Deep Water Point (Canning River)
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Pound Bend/Cambridge Dreaming/Deep Water Point (Canning River)

Kylie J Stevenson
Breath of the Sea: Ten Eclectic Poets of the Peter Cowan Writers' Centre, pp.55-61
Edith Cowan University. Ten Eclectic Poets of the Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre
2012
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poetry; landscape; memory rivers Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies
This original creative work, a series of three poems, was published in the anthology Breath of the Sea in December, 2012, in the Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre’s own imprint, ISBN 978-0-9579807-8-5 in Perth, Western Australia. The three poems, Pound Bend, Cambridge Dreaming and Deep Water Point, were the result of a year-long critical engagement with the poetry writing process in monthly meetings of the Ten Eclectic Poets group at the Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre where Kylie was engaged in collaborative exploration of contemporary Australian poetry methods and forms and individual writing practice. These poems investigate the river as a metaphor and are the result of Kylie’s inter-disciplinary research which combines poetic inquiry and traditional research methods to document the creative practice of artists through this river metaphor. The poems emerged from a process of research into landscape, rivers, creative practice and the poetic form. Kylie interrogated various conceptualisations of the river metaphor, for example in published studies at The University of Cambridge, which she then used in this instance as a catalyst for poetic resonances of the metaphor. This resulted in creative expressions of memories of rivers in Kylie’s personal experience in these three poems about engagement with three different rivers across the world.

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