The Voyage
Journeys in creative writing
New writing from the Universities of Monash and Warwick
edited by
Chandani Lokuge and David Morley
A Silkworms Ink Anthology
Published by Silkworms Ink
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Copyright 2011 Chandani Lokuge and David Morley
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First published 2011
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chandani Lokuge & David Morley
Cup
Peter Blegvad
Lauren Bliss
Crystal
Elleke Boehmer
Ostrowski’s Superbus
Halina Boniszewska
Emily's Utopia
Janine Burke
Airport delay
Ed Byrne
Cambridge
Peter Carpenter
Hanging Around
Maryrose Casey
Greed
Philip Caveney
Three Poems
Jane Commane
The Cat Swindle
Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario
Great Big Baby
Will Eaves
Views from Above
Elin-Maria Evangelista
Power of a Poster Girl
Peter Forbes
The Plot
Maureen Freely
Pilgrimage
Elsa Halling
Emily Street
John Hawke
Raqs Sharqi
Angie Hobbs
Recapitulated
Gruffydd Jones
The Little Mermaid
Sue Kossew
Awaiting The Toofaan
Raj Lal
Three Poems
Nick Lawrence
Pea Soup
Anna Lea
Aubonne, Spring Day
Chandani Lokuge
Castaway
Anna MacDonald
Resolute Bay
Elizabeth Manuel
Phantom Europe: A Mosaic
Adrian Martin
To Effigy Mounds, Iowa
Michael McKimm
The Circling Game
David Morley
Looking Home
Catherine Noske
A fifteen minute delay at a provincial Italian train station
A Gallipoli Story: Imagining History
Bruce Scates
How Cats Land on Their Feet
Ian Stewart
Driving to Saturday’s Rally for Refugees
Jenny Strauss
‘My Journey from Kumasi’ by Matthew Tipple, Class 4TF, Oatlands Junior School, Harrogate, UK, July 1982
Nicholas Tipple
Hotel Jugoslavija
Dragan Todorovic
Mutilated Images
George Ttoouli
The Lord of the Limbo Line
Ndaeyo Uko
Eka honda wedak, neda?
Robert JC Young
Biographies
Introduction
Welcome to The Voyage, an innovative new anthology of writing by staff and postgraduates from both Monash in Australia and Warwick in England. We believe all writing, at its best, is creative writing. To that end we have drawn our distinguished contributors not only from English and Creative Writing but also from other departments in Humanities, from our Faculties of Science and Social Science, and from our Administration. What's more, we invited writers and scholars who have some practical connection with Warwick and Monash from both within and outside the academy.
We were open to all forms and genres: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction including scholarship and biography, drama and most other forms of creativity you might imagine. We were happy for our contributors to write on any theme but we think that the core of the book is what it means to journey. These might be imagined or remembered journeys, physical or metaphorical journeys, or journeys into knowledge or across time.
There are over ten thousand miles between the universities of Monash and Warwick. Our writers live and work on the opposite side of the planet to each other. This book has been a voyage in space and time zones. It is part of a larger project between our universities. We are developing creative and practical research and teaching links for the benefit of staff and students. We have carried out workshops in Australia and England and our postgraduates have developed a superb anthology of student writing, Verge 2011: The Unknowable, which will be launched at Melbourne Writers Festival.
We thank all our contributors and colleagues at Warwick and Monash Universities, our innovative publishers Silkworms Ink for their inventiveness and attention, and Melbourne Writers Festival for their support. We also thank the Monash-Warwick Strategic Funding Initiative for Joint Research and Education Programmes for financial support. We apologise for any errors or omissions that have occurred during the editing process: these are entirely our responsibility. The copyright of all the pieces in this book remain with the authors.
Chandani Lokuge, Monash University
David Morley, Warwick University
Cup
Peter Blegvad