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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Mouths of Gold
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Heat no. 1 (New Series) 2001 Z946340 2001 periodical issue Fire & Shadow 2001 pg. 9-35
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bone House Beverley Farmer , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2005 Z1227831 2005 selected work essay (taught in 1 units) Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2005 pg. 1-73
    Note:

    Epigraph: Water has no memory - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

Works about this Work

To See : A Literary Ecological Point of View (Some Australian Examples of Ecocritical Creative Writing, With Particular Emphasis on the Prose Poem) Moya Costello , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 20 2013;

‘An ecologically-informed point of view’, says Wendy Wheeler (2006: 91), is one 'that sees all life, including culture, as naturally co-evolved and interdependent’. We can be unconscious of the fact that we are ‘embodied creatures’ for whom ‘the natural world … is the ground-state’ (Wheeler 2006: 91). Constantly distracted by the mass of human-engineered activity, we have lost, Clive Hamilton says, our imagination, and the imagery to inspire an appropriate responsiveness (2005: 191). Beverley Farmer’s innovative ecocritical writing in ‘Mouths of gold’ (2005), with its nonlinear, associative structure and hybrid nature enfolding the prose poem, reveals her exemplary practice of seeing what is. Like the prose poem, the essay without a straightforward, linear structure requires focus and time to make your way through it and to understand what it is offering. John Tomlinson has noted that time itself is neither linear-progressive nor cyclic; it has accidents and surprises in store and is constituted by profound rifts and forks (2007). These rifts in time make us aware of the contingency of our existence. Survival and successful adaptation in environments that are in crisis in the early twenty-first century will require a constant reflexive re-balancing, an experimental approach, a strategy of improvisation. ' (Author's abstract)

Eros in Dreamland Beverley Farmer , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , April vol. 66 no. 1 2007; (p. 199-204)
'Novelist and short-story writer Beverley Farmer traces the shifting configurations and intersections of love, desire and intimacy, as reflected in the work of various artists, including her own writings. (Meanjin)
Eros in Dreamland Beverley Farmer , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , April vol. 66 no. 1 2007; (p. 199-204)
'Novelist and short-story writer Beverley Farmer traces the shifting configurations and intersections of love, desire and intimacy, as reflected in the work of various artists, including her own writings. (Meanjin)
To See : A Literary Ecological Point of View (Some Australian Examples of Ecocritical Creative Writing, With Particular Emphasis on the Prose Poem) Moya Costello , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 20 2013;

‘An ecologically-informed point of view’, says Wendy Wheeler (2006: 91), is one 'that sees all life, including culture, as naturally co-evolved and interdependent’. We can be unconscious of the fact that we are ‘embodied creatures’ for whom ‘the natural world … is the ground-state’ (Wheeler 2006: 91). Constantly distracted by the mass of human-engineered activity, we have lost, Clive Hamilton says, our imagination, and the imagery to inspire an appropriate responsiveness (2005: 191). Beverley Farmer’s innovative ecocritical writing in ‘Mouths of gold’ (2005), with its nonlinear, associative structure and hybrid nature enfolding the prose poem, reveals her exemplary practice of seeing what is. Like the prose poem, the essay without a straightforward, linear structure requires focus and time to make your way through it and to understand what it is offering. John Tomlinson has noted that time itself is neither linear-progressive nor cyclic; it has accidents and surprises in store and is constituted by profound rifts and forks (2007). These rifts in time make us aware of the contingency of our existence. Survival and successful adaptation in environments that are in crisis in the early twenty-first century will require a constant reflexive re-balancing, an experimental approach, a strategy of improvisation. ' (Author's abstract)

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