Biography
Cassandra Atherton is an international expert on the prose poetry form and an award winning prose poet. Her specialization in prose poetry extends to the democratisation of poetry, focusing on poets as public intellectuals, specifically, hibakusha poets. Cassandra was a Visiting Scholar in English at Harvard University sponsored by Professor Stephen Greenblatt and has been part of the Harvard University public intellectual symposia since 2013. Cassandra has authored and edited over thirty critical and creative books (with three more in progress) and has been invited to edit twelve special editions of leading refereed journals.
Cassandra’s prose poetry has been widely anthologized both nationally and internationally in publications such as Best Australian Poems (Black Inc.) and Strange Cargo: Five Australian Poets (Smith|Doorstop, UK) and has been translated into Japanese, Korean and Chinese. She has been awarded the Sanlane prize, a Blanc literary award, a Melbourne University award, the University of California Mary Schroeder award for best article and has been a successful recipient of more than fifteen national and international research grants and teaching awards including, most recently VicArts grants and Australian Council Grants for her work on atomic bomb poetry and book of poetic biographies of the elderly. She is a sought after interviewer after her widely publicized interviews with American intellectuals such as Harold Bloom, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Greenblatt, Camille Paglia and Howard Zinn. Cassandra is commissioning editor for Westerly Magazine and series editor for Spineless Wonders annual microliterature anthologies. She received the Faculty Research award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision and the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for University Teacher of the Year.
Read more on Cassandra's profileCareer highlights
Harvard Visiting Scholar, 2016, (Sponsor - Stephen Greenblatt)
Visiting Professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, 2014
Westerly poetry editor, 2015 -
Vic Premier's Prize for Poetry judge, 2014-2015
Lord Mayor's Prize for Poetry judge, 2016 - 2017
Vic Arts Grant, 2015
Australia Council Grant, 2016
ABR Editorial Advisor 2013 - 2015
Blanc Award for Best Debut Experimental novel, 2010
Mary Schroeder Award for best interview article, 2011
Salane Award for best book of interviews, 2014
Deakin University Teacher of the Year 2011
Deakin Commendations for Teaching Excellence from 2009 onwards
Research interests
Cassandra's research interests include:
prose poetry; atomic bomb poetry; public intellectuals and poetry in translation.
Affiliations
- Axon journal
- Writers in Conversation
- AAWP
- Writers Victoria
- APC
- AASRN
- IAFOR
Teaching interests
I teach in the Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing disciplines.
I am extremely interested in the link between these two disciplines and the way in which they can work to inform one another.
Within these disciplines I am a specialist prose poetry, canonical literature as well as Japanese texts in translation.
Units taught
ALW 225 - Fiction Writing
ALL 376 - Classics and Trash
Conferences
2021 New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA: panel, ‘Bursting out of the frame: Writing ekphrastic poetry and its connection to visual art’
2021 Poetry on the Move, Canberra: Festival Guest Poet, Poetry reading, Prose Poetry Workshop and Panel: ‘Ripping Language Apart’
2020 Activism at the Margins conference, RMIT, Melbourne: panel and performance, ‘Activism and Ageing: Creative Responses towards a Politics of Hope’
2020 New Orleans Poetry Festival, Online: Covideos, haibun reading with US poet, Jonathan Penton.
2020 Poetry on the Move, Online: Festival Guest Poet, ‘Well Known Corners’, poetry reading.
2019 Venetian Blind, a Public Art Commission curated project with the European Cultural Centre, Venice Biennale.
2019 18th Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region, Macquarie University: paper, ‘The Poetics of Poetry Translation: Internationalising contemporary Japanese poetry’
2019 AAWP Conference, UTS, Sydney: panel, ‘How We Work: Emotional Labour and Women’ [with Jen Webb and Paul Hetherington, U Canberra].
2019 AAWP Conference, UTS, Sydney: paper, ‘‘Get Over Yourself: Thinking cooperatively, criticism and another’s insights’
2019 Art and Soul Symposium, Winchester, UK: paper, ‘Double Vision: Ekphrasis as a Way of Looking Twice’
2019 Prose Poetry Reading: Winchester, UK.
2019 Out Poetry and Our Needs, A symposium, Reading, United Kingdom: paper, ‘Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose’.
2019 An International Poetry Reading: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, United Kingdom.
2019 Poetry on the Move Festival, Canberra: paper, ‘Small Leaps, Giant Steps in Prose Poetry’
2019 Poetry on the Move Festival: panel, ‘The Texture of Truth’
2019 Leeds Trinity University, UK: Keynote lecture, ‘Breaking Boundaries and Crossing Lines: English-Language Prose Poetry Today’.
2019 Leeds Trinity University, UK: ‘Insiders on and ‘Outsider’ Artform [with Jane Monson, Cambridge U, Ian Seed, U of Chester]
2018 RMIT, Present Tense, public lecture with Ali Alizadeh and Jessica Wilkinson, ‘How To Read Poetry’.
2018 Newcastle Writers Festival: panel, ‘Short form and Political reverberations.’
2018 Poetry on the Move Festival, Canberra: paper, ‘Inhabiting Language: Dwellings’
2018 Poetry on the Move Festival, Canberra: panel, ‘Lines and Shapes, Inhabiting Form’
2018 Poetry on the Move Festival, Canberra, panel, ‘Living Poetry at the National Portrait Gallery’
2018 Poetry on the Move Festival, Canberra: Prose Poetry reading.
2018 Great Writing: The International Creative Writing Conference, United Kingdom: paper, ‘Fragments of the Place Itself: Boston Neighbourhoods in Prose Poetry’
2018 Inside Outside Carnival II Symposium, United Kingdom, July 2018: paper, ‘Reimagining the Atomic Sublime: Prose Poetry, Hybridity and Mariko Nagai’s Irradiated Cities’.
2018 Prose Poetry Reading: Winchester, United Kingdom.
2018 Contemporary Lyric: Absent Presences, the Secret and the Unsayable, A Symposium, Reading, United Kingdom: paper, ‘Show don’t Tell’.
2018 Prose Poetry Reading: Reading, United Kingdom.
2018 Translation Workshops, Meiji University, Japan.
2018 Nara Women’s University, poetry translation and reading: Nara, Japan.
2018 Spiral: Poetry reading: Tokyo, Japan.
2017 Queensland Poetry Festival, prose poetry panel. 2017 Great Writing: The International Creative Writing Conference, UK. 2017 Bath Spa MIX conference, UK
Professional activities
- 2017 - Lord Mayor’s Poetry Prize, Melbourne, judge.
- 2017- Co-editor of Disruption special edition of Australian Poetry Journal, with Benjamin Laird and Jacinta Le Plastrier.
- 2016 Editorial Committee: Collaborative Writing and Academic Liaison, Axon: Creative Explorations.
- 2016- University of Canberra, Poetry on the Move
- 2016- Manning Clark House Poetry Reading, Canberra.
- 2016- Author Page on PennSound: Cente for Programmes in Contemporary Writing, Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis (co-directors), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2016.
- 2016- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Prize for Poetry, Convenor.
- 2016- Co-Editor of Prose Poetry Special Edition of Rabbit: Non-Fiction Poetry Journal, with Paul Hetherington.
- 2016- Co-Editor of Ekphrasis Special Edition of Cordite Poetry Review, with Paul Hetherington.
- 2016- joanne burns Award, judge.
- 2015- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Prize for Poetry, judge.
- 2015- Lord Mayor’s Poetry Prize, Melbourne, judge.
- 2014- Poetry editor of Westerly Magazine.
- 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival artist: ‘Flash Fiction and Hybridity’.
- 2014 Editorial Advisory Board: Writers in Conversation
- 2015- Associate Editor: IAFOR Journal of Education
Research groups
Contemporary Histories Research Group
International Poetry Studies Institute
Awards
WJC Banks Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning
Vice Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Deakin University Commendations for Teaching Excellence
Australian Postgraduate Award
Felix Meyer Fellowship
University of California award for best interview-article
Blanc Literary Award for best experimental debut novel.
Projects
Cassandra is currently working on a number of projects:
Poetry and Activism: Hibakusha Poets as Public Intellectuals [monograph]
Ekphrasis: An Introduction [monograph]
Hiroshima Maidens [Prose Poetry and hybrid genre book]
Publications
The intimate viewfinder: poetic ekphrasis of photographs and the illusion of the real
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2024), pp. 1-13, New Writing, Oxford, Eng., C1
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-15, While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems, Cheshire, Ma., B1
"Half-Sick of Shadows": Imagining Women, Reverse Ekphrasis and The Lady of Shallot
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2023), pp. 113-137, Literature and Imagine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Speaking Picture and Silent Text, B1
"Agents of Chaos: The Monstrous Feminine in Killing Eve
A Miller, C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2023), Vol. 23, pp. 1802-1818, Feminist Media Studies, London, Eng., C1
Poetry and precarious memory: Ways of understanding less and less
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2023), Vol. 27, pp. 1-20, Text, Brisbane, Qld., C1
Amuse-Bouche: Prose, Poetry and Food
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington, Alyson Miller
(2023), Vol. 9, pp. 32-46, Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research, York, Eng., C1
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), Cheshire, Mass., A7
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), Dreaming Awake New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Asheville, N.C., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), Dreaming Awake New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Asheville, N.C., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), Dreaming Awake New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Asheville, N.C., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), Dreaming Awake New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, Asheville, N.C., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-1, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2023/01/atherton-suites/, London, Eng., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-1, Verse of April: Digital Anthology of Homage to the Poets, Paris, France, JO3
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-1, Argotist Online Poetry, Liverpool, Eng., JO3
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-1, Argotist Online Poetry, Liverpool, Eng., JO3
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-1, Argotist Online Poetry, Liverpool, Eng., JO3
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-1, Arriving at a Shoreline Anthology, New York, N.Y., JO3
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2023), pp. 1-1, First Literary Review-East, [U.S.A.], JO3
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2023), Vol. Summer, pp. 1-1, Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, [West Kirby, Wirral], JO3
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2023), Vol. Summer, pp. 1-1, Orbis : quarterly international literary journal, [West Kirby, Wirral], JO3
Protean Manifestations and Diverse Shapes
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2022), pp. 6-22, Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice, New York, N.Y., B1
Ekphrastic spaces: the tug, pull, collision and merging of the in-between
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2022), pp. 1-16, New Writing, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Write What You Know': Study tours and creativity
Glenn Moore, Kat Ellinghaus, Emma Robertson, Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2022), Vol. 12, pp. 1-18, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
Raining Human Bodies: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and 9/11
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), Vol. 13, Occasion, Stanford, Calif., C1
Ekphrasis and Gallery Encounters
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2022), Vol. 36, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Melbourne, Vic., C1
The Kiss: Ekphrastic poetry, enargeia and the immersive installation
Cassandra Atherton, Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington, Paul Hetherington
(2022), Vol. 12, pp. 1-12, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
The Language in My Tongue : An anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2022), Cheshire, Mass., A7
Raining Blood and Money: Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), Vol. 13, pp. 181-184, Occasion, Stanford, Calif., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), Vol. 10, pp. 180-181, Plume poetry, Asheville, N.C., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), pp. 96-101, RABBIT + HEIDE, HOUSE OF IDEAS: MODERN WOMEN — 12 POETS RESPOND TO THE HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART EXHIBITION 2021, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
The Best Asian Poetry 2021-2 poems: Shinjuku Prince Hotel; Miyajima; Crosshatch,; Lovers
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), Singapore, JO3
Cabaret (1972 film): Five ekphrastic prose poems
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2022), Vol. 13, pp. 1-1, MacQueen's Quinterly, [Tampa Bay, Flo.], JO3
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2022), Vol. Autumn, pp. 1-1, Long Poem Magazine, London, Eng., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), pp. 1-1, Mercurius: An Arts, Literary and Current Affairs Magazine, [Online], JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), pp. 1-1, Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry: An International Anthology, Beaumont, Tex., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), pp. 1-1, Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry: An International Anthology, Beaumont, Tex., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), pp. 1-1, Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry: An International Anthology, Beaumont, Tex., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2022), pp. 1-1, Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry: An International Anthology, Beaumont, Tex., JO3
'What lies beneath: John Kinsella's graphology poems: 1995-2015'
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2021), Vol. 26, pp. 55-68, Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Singing the quotidian: the lyric voice and contemporary American prose poetry by women
P Hetherington, C Atherton
(2021), Vol. 18, pp. 386-399, New Writing, C1
Shrine forests, bonsai and public parks in tokyo: Old trees as symbols of continuity
G Moore, C Atherton
(2021), Vol. 19, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, C1
Gwen Harwood: a gentle lifting off the shore
Cassandra Atherton
(2021), pp. 14-19, Island magazine, Hobart, Tasmania, C1
The Weight of an Empty Room: La fantasia and gap gardening in a prose poetry sequence
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2021), Vol. 11, pp. 1-11, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
Live Wire: A Reflection on Ania Walwicz and the Australian Prose Poetry Tradition
Cassandra Atherton
(2021), Vol. 40, pp. 66-68, Social Alternatives, Brisbane, Qld., C1
Cassandra Atherton
(2021), pp. 1-1, Borderless : A transnational anthology of feminist poetry, Woden, A.C.T., JO3
The Weight of an Empty Room; Tomorrows; Will-o'; Lozenges
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2021), Vol. 22, pp. 1-1, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, [online], JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2021), Vol. Winter, pp. 1-1, Bond street review, [online], JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2021), pp. 1-1, The Ekphrastic Review, [Online], JO3
A New Levittown, 2050 and Quotidian Sublime
P Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2021), Vol. Fall, pp. 1-1, DMQ Review, [Online], JO3
Hiroshima is for Lovers; Shrine Island; Hiroshima Crosshatch; Shinjuku Prince Hotel
Cassandra Atherton
(2021), pp. 1-1, Best Asian Poetry Anthology, JO3
Memory Book : Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours
J Wilkinson, Cassandra Atherton
(2021), pp. 1-205, Memory Book : Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours, Brisbane, Queensland, JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2021), pp. 1-1, Homings and Departures: Selected Poems from Contemporary China and Australia, Canberra, A.C.T., JO3
Inside of Paradise Reflection: Vicki Viidikas
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2021), Vol. 10, pp. 70-71, Australian Poetry Journal, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
Cassandra Atherton, Anne Caldwell, Oz Hardwick, Paul Hetherington, Paul Munden, Shane Strange, Jen Webb
(2021), Vol. Winter, pp. 22-30, NAWE Magazine, York, Eng., JO3
A strange magic: Australian prose poetry
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2020), pp. 1-16, Anthology of Australian prose poetry, Melbourne, Vic., B1
An intertextual poiesis: the luminous image and a 'round loaf of Indian and Rye'
P Hetherington, C Atherton
(2020), Vol. 17, pp. 259-271, New Writing, C1
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington, Rina Kikuchi
(2020), pp. 1-17, Coolabah, Barcelona, Spain, C1
'The Chernobyl Hibakusha': dark poetry, the ineffable and abject realities'
Cassandra Atherton, Alyson Miller
(2020), Vol. 24, pp. 1-19, Text journal of writing and writing courses, Nathan, Qld., C1
Writing together: conjunctive collaboration, scholarship and prose poetry
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2020), Vol. 24, pp. 1-18, Text journal of writing and writing courses, Nathan, Qld., C1
Eternal forests: the veneration of old trees in Japan
Glenn Moore, Cassandra Atherton
(2020), Vol. 78, pp. 26-33, Arnoldia, Boston, Mass., C1
Tell All The Truth but Tell it Slant: Poetic Truth and Indirectness
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2020), pp. 1-1, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2020), Melbourne, Vic., A7
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2020), 100 Words of solitude, [Online], JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2020), pp. 43-43, Island : a magazine of excellence and variety, Sandy Bay, Tas., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2020), Vol. 8, pp. 1-1, Australian Poetry Journal, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
A Politics of Naming: A Zuihitsu
Cassandra Atherton
(2020), Vol. The Long Poem, pp. 1-1, Rabbit: A Journal for Non Fiction Poetry, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2020), In Your Hands Anthology, Red Room Poetry, Sydney, N.S.W., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2020), Vol. 58, pp. 1-1, Text journal of writing and writing courses, Nathan, Qld., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2020), pp. 105-105, No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast, Canberra, A.C.T., JO3
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2020), pp. 1-1, Meanjin quarterly, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
Cassandra Atherton
(2020), Vol. 8, pp. 1-2, Meniscus Literary Journal, [online], JO3
Fragments of the place itself: Boston neighbourhoods in prose poetry
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2019), Vol. 16, pp. 158-169, New Writing, C1
Kat Ellinghaus, Jennifer Spinks, Glenn Moore, Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2019), Vol. XXXI, pp. 169-189, Frontiers: the interdisciplinary journal of study abroad, Boston, Mass., C1
Language and agency in 'Dwellings'
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2019), pp. 1-1, Axon, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
Peripheral knowledge and feeling: the Perimeters poems
Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-16, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Gold Coast, Qld., C1
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-3, Shuffle: an anthology of microlit, Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., J2
Relics of the carnival, fragments of war
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2019), Axon: creative explorations, [Canberra, A.C.T.], J2
Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2019), Vol. 9, pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., J2
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), Giant Steps: Fifty Poets Reflect on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Beyond, Canberra, A.C.T., J3
Cassandra Atherton, Rina Kikuchi, Mari Kashiwagi
(2019), Gendai-Shi-Techo, Japan, J3
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-1, Personal Structures: Identities Exhibition, Venice, Italy, J3
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), Giant Steps: Fifty Poets Reflect on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Beyond, Canberra, A.C.T., J3
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-1, Personal Structures: Identities Exhibition, Venice, Italy, J3
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-1, Personal Structures: Identities Exhibition, Venice, Italy, J3
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-1, Personal Structures: Identities Exhibition, Venice, Italy, J3
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-1, Personal Structures: Identities Exhibition, Venice, Italy, J3
'In the shadow of the cloud': Hibakusha poets as public intellectuals
C Atherton
(2018), pp. 135-152, The unfinished atomic bomb: shadows and reflections, Lanham, Md., B1
Introduction : an unfinished atomic bomb
D Lowe, C Atherton, A Miller
(2018), pp. ix-xviii, The unfinished atomic bomb : shadows and reflections, Lanham, Md., B1
The ordinary and the unreal: American and Australian prose poetry
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2018), pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Bruce, A.C.T., C1
Broken forms: prose poetry as hybridised genre in Australia
Paul Hetherington, C Atherton
(2018), Vol. 24&25, pp. 112-126, Coolabah, Barcelona, Spain, C1
C Atherton, Paul Hetherington
(2018), Vol. 72, pp. 67-72, Western humanities review, Salt Lake City, Utah, C1
The unfinished atomic bomb: shadows and reflections
D Lowe, C Atherton, A Miller
(2018), Lanham, Md., A7
C Atherton
(2018), Vol. 72, pp. 89-89, Western humanities review, Salt Lake City, Utah, J3
C Atherton
(2018), Vol. 6, pp. 1-1, Australian Poetry Anthology, Melbourne, Vic., J3
C Atherton
(2017), pp. 1-15, Cordite poetry review, Carlton South, Vic., C1
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2017), Vol. 57, pp. 1-9, Cordite poetry review, Carlton South, Vic., C1
C Atherton
(2017), Vol. 21, pp. 155-170, Japan Studies Review, Miami, Fla., C1
'Monster in the sky': hibakusha poetry and the nuclear sublime
A Miller, C Atherton
(2017), Vol. 41, pp. 1-12, TEXT: journal of writing and writing programs, Nathan, Qld., C1
Eyes inside words: prose poetry, imagism, aesthetic empathy and autobiographical memory
P Hetherington, C Atherton
(2017), pp. 1-20, Text, Nathan, Qld., C1
Bending in all directions everywhere: a juddering, glimpsing, eidolonging of poets
Dan Disney, Dan Disney, Jessica Wilkinson, Jessica Wilkinson, Cassandra Atherton, Cassandra Atherton
(2017), Vol. 62, pp. 121-132, Westerly, Crawley, W.A., C1
The live sparrow of translation
C Atherton
(2017), Vol. 76.3, pp. 128-128, Southerly journal, Sydney, N.S.W., J3
C Atherton
(2017), pp. 55-55, Metamorphic: 21st century poets respond to Ovid, Canberra, A.C.T., J2
'On clear days'; 'in the dark'; 'in the brief caesura'; 'it takes a year'
C Atherton
(2017), pp. 1-4, Trace: prose poems, Canberra, A.C.T., J3
C Atherton
(2017), Vol. 20, pp. 20-21, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Melbourne, Vic., J3
C Atherton
(2017), pp. 22-23, Rabbit: A Journal for Nonfiction Poetry, Melbourne, Vic., J3
C Atherton, K Le Rossignol
(2016), pp. 303-321, Internacionalizacao do curriculo, [Brasil], B1
Poetic boundary conditions : Australian poets in the ivory tower
C Atherton
(2016), Vol. 25, pp. 169-182, Journal of gender studies, Oxford, Eng., C1
'Give back the human': poetic collaboration and hibakusha poems
C Atherton
(2016), pp. 1-1, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
Speaking to animals: Japan and the welfare of companion animals
C Atherton, G Moore
(2016), Vol. 16, Electronic journal of contemporary Japanese studies, Sheffield, Eng., C1
Like a porcupine or hedgehog?: The prose poem as post-romantic fragment
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2016), Vol. 9, pp. 19-38, Creative approaches to research, Melbourne, Vic., C1
The prose poem as Igel: a reading of fragmentation and closure in prose poetry
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2016), pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
Quotidian metageographies: prose poems as nonfiction postcards
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2016), pp. 1-12, Rabbit: a journal for non-fiction poetry, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Student perspectives on the value of experiential learning in history
C Atherton, G Moore
(2016), Vol. 35, pp. 81-100, Australasian journal of American studies (AJAS), Melbourne, Vic., C1
Introduction : nonfiction prose poetry
C Atherton, P Hetherington
(2016), pp. 1-2, Rabbit: a journal of non-fiction poetry, Melbourne, Vic., J2
C Atherton
(2016), Vol. 6, pp. 81-81, Stoneboat literary journal, Sheboygan, Wis., J3
C Atherton
(2016), pp. 1-5, Pulse: prose poems, Kambah, A.C.T., J2
Give back peace that will never end: Hibakusha poets as public intellectuals
C Atherton
(2015), Vol. 13, pp. 1-1, Asia-Pacific journal: Japan focus, Ithaca, N.Y., C1
'Unconscionable mystification'? : rooms, spaces and the prose poem
P Hetherington, C Atherton
(2015), Vol. 12, pp. 265-281, New writing : the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing, Oxford, Eng., C1
Situating public intellectuals
P Marshall, C Atherton
(2015), pp. 69-78, Media International Australia, Brisbane, Qld., C1
'Very inflated rhetoric polysyllables and so on': the public intellectual and jargon in the academy
C Atherton
(2015), pp. 98-107, Media international Australia, Brisbane, Qld., C1
C Atherton
(2015), Vol. 1, pp. 29-31, Seam: Prose Poetry Project, University of Canberra, A. C. T., J3
C Atherton
(2014), pp. 1-12, Travelling without gods: A Chris Wallace-Crabbe companion., Melbourne, Vic, B1
'Hottie Doctors': academics as celetoids, a case study of Dr Bonnie Blossman and Big, Rich Texas
C Atherton
(2014), Vol. 5, pp. 79-82, Celebrity studies, Abingdon, England, C1
C Atherton
(2014), pp. 197-197, Melbourne subjective anthology: an anthology of contemporary Melbourne writing, Port Melbourne, Vic, J3
C Atherton
(2014), pp. 91-91, Flashing the square : microfiction & prose poems, Strawberry Hills, N. S. W., J2
C Atherton
(2014), Vol. 4, pp. 17-17, Australian poetry journal, Melbourne, Vic., J3
C Atherton
(2014), pp. 36-37, Writing to the edge : prose poems and micro fiction, Strawberry Hills, N. S. W., J2
Looking Glass World with illustrations by Robin Wallace-Crabbe
C Atherton, Robin Wallace-Crabbe
(2014), Richmond, Vic., J2-1
In so many words: interviews with writers, scholars and intellectuals
C Atherton
(2013), Melbourne, Vic., A1
All the world's a stage: the production of the overseas intensive
C Atherton
(2013), pp. 152-159, Searching for the American dream: how a sense of place shapes the study of history, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, B1
Reading, writing, crafting - Innovations in first year tertiary writing pedagogy
C Atherton, A Pont
(2013), pp. 1-13, Proceedings of the 18th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Canberra, ACT, E1
Southern kisses: a backyard in Slidell, Louisiana, 1982
C Atherton
(2013), pp. 1-1, Stereo stories, Melbourne, Vic., J2
Poetry descends from the sacred : an interview with Camille Paglia
C Atherton
(2012), Vol. 22, pp. 84-95, Writing on the edge, Davis, Calif., C1
The haunting : poetry and fashion in the creative writing workshop
C Atherton
(2012), Vol. 23, pp. 47-53, Writing on the edge, Davis, Calif., C1
Cassandra Atherton
(2012), Vol. 72, pp. 50-55, Southerly, Sydney, N.S.W., J2-1
C Atherton
(2011), pp. 55-68, Refashioning myth : poetic transformations and metamorphoses, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, B1
C Atherton
(2011), Vol. 9, pp. 22-22, Etchings : fiction, essays, photography, poetry, art, Elsternwick, Vic., J3
C Atherton
(2011), Vol. 3, pp. 80-80, Lemuria : rajasthan association of Indo-Australian studies, Ajmer, India, J3
C Atherton
(2011), Vol. 1, pp. 63-63, Rabbit : a poetry journal for new and emerging rabbits, Melbourne, Vic., J3
C Atherton
(2011), pp. 54-54, The attitude of cups : an anthology of Australian poetry about tea, wine and coffee, Melbourne, Vic, J3
'If you don't want to take risks, then you have to be silent' : an interview with Howard Zinn.
C Atherton
(2010), Vol. 20, pp. 86-94, Writing on the edge : a journal about writing and teaching writing, Davis, Calif, C1-1
Sleeping with the enemy : creative writing and theory in the academy
C Atherton
(2010), pp. 1-10, AAWP 2010 : The Strange Bedfellows or Perfect Partners Papers : the refereed proceedings of the 15th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2010, Melbourne, VIC, E1
Memoir : home is where the heart is : a question of belonging II
C Atherton
(2010), pp. 171-176, Griffith review : a quarterly review of writing & ideas, Nathan, Qld, J2
C Atherton
(2010), Vol. 14, pp. 1-2, Text : journal of writing and writing courses, Nathan, Qld., J3
'Who drank the hemlock?' : an interview with Noam Chomsky
C Atherton
(2009), Vol. 19, pp. 91-99, Writing on the edge : a journal about writing and teaching writing, Davis, Calif., C1-1
C Atherton
(2009), Vol. 19, pp. 219-221, Antithesis : an interdisciplinary postgraduate journal, Melbourne, Vic., J2-1
C Atherton
(2009), Vol. 19, pp. 224-225, Antithesis : an interdisciplinary postgraduate journal, Melbourne, Vic., J2-1
The life of the imagination goes on everywhere : an interview with Stephen Greenblatt
C Atherton
(2008), Vol. 18, Writing on the edge : a journal about writing and teaching writing, Davis, Calif., C1-1
An interview with Dana Gioia : Tradition is a romance
C Atherton
(2007), Vol. 18, pp. 87-93, Writing on the edge : a journal about writing and teaching writing, Davis, Calif., C1-1
'My history is a tile in a mosaic' : an interview with Jim Cullen
C Atherton
(2007), Vol. 1, pp. 64-72, A J A S, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
Deep subjectivity : Harold Bloom
C Atherton
(2007), Vol. 17, pp. 1-9, Writing on the edge : a journal about writing and teaching writing, Davis, Calif., C1-1
Flashing eyes and floating hair : a reading of Gwen Harwood's pseudonymous poetry
C Atherton
(2006), Kew, Vic., A1-1
C Atherton
(2006), pp. 64-67, Hidden desires : Australian women writing, Charnwood, A.C.T., B1-1
Life is dangerous : an interview with Alan Lightman
C Atherton
(2005), Vol. 16, pp. 1-8, Writing on the edge : a journal about writing and teaching writing, Davis, Calif., C1-1
In the dreaded park : Gwen Harwood and subpersonality theory
C Atherton
(2005), pp. 133-140, Journal of Australian studies, London, England, C1-1
C Atherton
(2005), pp. 92-95, Philament : an online journal of the arts and culture, Sydney, NSW, J2-1
'The edge of something' : stasis and rebirth in the recent poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe
C Atherton
(2003), Vol. 17, pp. 38-42, Antipodes : a North American journal of Australian literature, New York, N.Y., C1-1
C Atherton
(2003), Vol. 93-94, pp. 189-196, Island : a magazine of excellence and variety, Sandy Bay, Tas., J2-1
'Fuck all editors': The Ern Malley affair and Gwen Harwood'sbulletinscandal
Cassandra Atherton
(2002), Vol. 26, pp. 149-157, Journal of Australian Studies, C1-1
International Neo-surreal
Cassandra Atherton
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Atomic Sublime
Cassandra Atherton
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Utterances of intimacy
Cassandra Atherton
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Prose poetry and transgressive thresholds
Cassandra Atherton
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Voicing the unvoiced
Cassandra Atherton
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Funded Projects at Deakin
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Poetic Portraits of Australian Elders
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Creative Victoria
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Supervisions
Zoe Dzunko
Thesis entitled: On the Edge: Tracing the Liminal in Labour Narratives
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Debra Wain
Thesis entitled: Keepers of Culture: Women, Food and Writing
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Rebecca Elizabeth Hutton
Thesis entitled: Homebirds: re-conceptualising music in young adult LGBTQ fiction
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Libbie Chellew
Thesis entitled: Uncanny Suburbia and Australian Fiction
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Heather Brown
Thesis entitled: Interrogating Postfeminist Female Empowerment in Bestselling Post-millennial Young Adult Literature
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
David Ryan
Thesis entitled: Be a Good Sport
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Ailsa Brackley du Bois
Thesis entitled: Lost Spaces of Popular Theatrical Entertainment, Ballarat Goldfields, 1850s - 1870s
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Kristin Henry
Thesis entitled: Clans and Tribes: attachment networks of older Australian women
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Joshua Mark Baird
Thesis entitled: The projection of the son: unreliable narration and masculinity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Claire Gaskin
Thesis entitled: Ismene¿s Survivable Resistance: Claiming Poetic Voice in the Contemporary Era
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Lynette Hinings-Marshall
Thesis entitled: A Flash Life: Exploring Female Understandings of Home Through Experimental Memoir
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Eleanore Rose Gardner
Thesis entitled: 'The quintessence of difficult': Examining the Disruptive Literary Antiheroine
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Yasmin Samira Mobayad
Thesis entitled: Mother: Spectres of the Post-Industrial Narrative
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Heather Cameron
Thesis entitled: Cancer Poetry: Responding to loss through autopathography and elegy
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Autumn Lace Royal
Thesis entitled: Poetry and the Elegiac Self: A Creative Thesis with Exegesis
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Katherine Mary Paine
Thesis entitled: The Tank: reimagining the colonial North
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Liam Guilar
Thesis entitled: Anhaga: An exploration in poetry of narrative, memory and identity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Daniel Joshua Lewis
Thesis entitled: "Dead-Channel" : Writing Cyberpunk
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Shelley Lee Buerger
Thesis entitled: Tell Me Something: The Poetics of Maternal Subjectivity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Megan Jane Mooney Taylor
Thesis entitled: Mythmaking and Masculinity in the Fiction of Norman Lindsay
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Scott Michael Pearce
Thesis entitled: Hegemonic Masculinity in Transition The Frontier Myth in Australian Westerns
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Emma Clare Hayes
Thesis entitled: The Scarlet Legacy Representations of the Single Mother
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Jo-Anne Langdon
Thesis entitled: Working title: Magical realism as elegy
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Roberta Shaw
Thesis entitled: Looking and aesthetics: Beyond literary representations of voyeurism.
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts