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y separately published work icon Axon : Creative Explorations periodical issue  
Alternative title: The Poetics of Collaboration
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... vol. 6 no. 1 2016 of Axon : Creative Explorations est. 2011 Axon : Creative Explorations
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
On Recognising Collaboration, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism
'The proposition of this paper is that collaboration in artistic production is both a norm and an uncannily mysterious phenomenon. It is a norm that can be obscured from our awareness by a common belief in artistic individuality: the persistent insistence on recognition of individual authorship. Despite the pathologising narratives of genius provided by Freud, and the efforts of Barthes and Foucault in the late 1960s (which I do not intend to reprise here) to diffuse responsibility for art out into an unfinished historical and societal project, and more lately scepticism over essentialist thinking offered by post-modernism and deconstructive approaches (with Mary Orr’s Intertextuality perhaps a summary work in this vein), the individual artist is still championed in criticism, publishing, journalism and marketing. This paper is constructed as a series of reflections and observations (taking inspiration from Michael Frayn’s provocative 1974 work, Constructions, which itself owes a debt to Wittgenstein). The paper aims to define collaboration as a socio-political dynamic, one imbued with the ideals that Habermas identifies as enlightened. It offers a range of examples of collaboration in art and literature that might seem at first to have little to do with collaboration but aim to reveal the shifting, surprising nature of many collaborations. ' (Publication abstract)
Walter Ralegh Remixi"Bring America home and smoke it.", Ross Gibson , single work poetry
The Look of Revelationsi"Strive for an asymmetry that diddles with simplicity but doesn't screw it absolutely up.", Ross Gibson , single work poetry
Desktop, Lucinda McKnight , single work poetry
Conversation/Collaboration, Luke Fischer , Anthony Lawrence , Simeon Kronenberg , single work interview
'Collaboration has a long history in the arts, especially in music. In poetry, Wordsworth and Coleridge produced the 'Lyrical Ballads' and Ezra Pound's editorial influence is widely regarded as an indelible (though uncredited) influence on TS Eliot's 'The Wasteland'. While most collaborations in verse involve a dialogue between two poets, this three-way 'Conversation' is intended to introduce and share a number of concerns and ideas that pertain to both composition and editorial practice. Consequently, our combined statements and reflections are intended as a foundation from which to step off into the actual writing process, and to offer potential readers a number of valuable insights into possible methodologies for a collaboration, in three voices.' (Publication abstract)
Prose Poetry as Meeting Place : The Prose Poetry Project, Shane Strange , single work criticism
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