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1 Point and Line i "thumbs chewed off and pinned at the corners like pegs to the", Jesse Shipway , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 226-228)
1 Untitled i "Anticles emerged from the arena largely unscathed.", Jesse Shipway , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Islet
1 Fiction Jesse Shipway , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 123 2010; (p. 60-62)
— Review of Boys of Summer Peter Skrzynecki , 2010 single work novel
1 Poetry Survey Jesse Shipway , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 123 2010; (p. 57-59)
— Review of A Locale of the Cosmos Homer Manfred Rieth , 2006 single work poetry ; Pilbara Mark O'Connor , 2009 selected work poetry
1 The Fish that Drank the Ocean i "The expanding bag is webbed around hope.", Jesse Shipway , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 23 October vol. 19 no. 20 2009;
1 Because, When It is the Case, We Have to Behave as If It Isn't, Just Because It Is i "What do any of us want,", Jesse Shipway , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 113 2008; (p. 85-86)
1 Wishing for Modernity : Temporality and Desire in Gould's Book of Fish Jesse Shipway , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 21 no. 1 2003; (p. 43-53) Shipway's article examines Flanagan's representation of Tasmanian versions of history and modernity in Gould's Book of Fish. As one of the recurring motifs in Flanagan's writing is 'the impoverishment of the Tasmanian present, a state of affairs both enacted by, and embodied in, a failed modernity', his fiction poses the question: 'how are we to summon up hope for Tasmania's future, when its past is so overwhelmingly full of defeat?'. Shipways argues that the answer proposed in the novel is 'to radically fictionalise that past, and to imbue it with the residue of collective longing left over from the project of hydro-electrification that was aborted after the Franklin River conflicts of the early 1980s' (43). 'In Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan returns to the time of Tasmania's first modernity in order to realise his hopes and ambitions for another modernity that is yet to come. The tragic-comic failure of that fictional modernisation embodies the ambivalence he feels about the real history of Tasmanian modernity' (44).
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