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y separately published work icon Axon : Creative Explorations periodical issue  
Alternative title: Intimacy
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... vol. 1 no. 1 September 2011 of Axon : Creative Explorations est. 2011 Axon : Creative Explorations
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
IV. Last Bridge I Won’t Give up or Take Out My Hand This Is the Last Bridgei"Surely there is still a way to sew the world together?", Shevaun Cooley , single work poetry
'Some Place on This Earth' : Intimacy, Yearning, and the Strange Poetry of Witnessing, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism
'This paper argues that the work of writers is to witness. This requires a willingness to take up a state of mind somewhere between intimacy and yearning—a state conducive to producing ‘strange poetry’. Most importantly, it means resisting an expressed ethical stance in the face of extreme events. Primo Levi’s If this is a man (1947) and Denise Levertov’s final book of poetry, The great unknowing (1999) are taken as examples of writers doing the work of witnessing extreme events while (purposefully) falling short of taking an ethical stance.' (Publication abstract)
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