The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

Ricans on the avenue today, which makes it beautiful and warm. First Bunny died, then John Latouche, then Jackson Pollock. But i ...

For Exercise 5 write a walk poem which either takes a trajectory through the city you are familiar with, or invents one. Be spec ...

Dean & White republished). I wrote this partly in response to Grosz’s essay, and also to reading more widely about the city. ...

the media, can result in a blunting and debasing of our awareness. On the TV, for example, we are constantly fed what Jean Baudr ...

needles by Sieglinde. It also alludes, through images of threading and weaving, to the process of her creation. In the text I tr ...

Time and place take the form of juxtapositions, they are not folded into a continuous narrative: the piece is written in discont ...

replaying Blue Velvet. His thoughts are interrupted by an idea for a play, by his child rolling on the floor and complaining of ...

Figure 12.1: ‘Secret Places’ (Smith 2000, pp. 22–5) 272 The Writing Experiment ...

Mapping worlds, moving cities 273 ...

274 The Writing Experiment ...

CONCLUSION In this chapter a range of formal strategies has been used to explore ideas about place, and to raise issues of ident ...

REFERENCES Achilles, S. 1995, Waste , Local Consumption Press, Sydney. Atwood, M. 1990, Cat’s Eye , Virago, London. Auster, P. 1 ...

Conclusion: The 0ngoing editor One of the ideas implicit in this book is that writing is a gradual process of transformation. An ...

and involves considerable self-discipline, editing should also be treated with caution. The most interesting elements of a creat ...

Cutting Less is often more in writing: you should be ruthless about cutting out irrelevant words, sentences and phrases. Look at ...

the concrete aspects of the text more oblique and abstract. When we built up a person-in-action in Chapter 2,we were making the ...

Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following people for giving me permission to publish or republish their work: Richard ...

Poems copyright 1964 by Frank O’Hara, reprinted by permission of City Books. Thanks to John Kerrigan, executor of the Hugh Sykes ...

Index 283 absent narrator, 95 abstracting text, 279–80 acrostic structure, 39–40 Adaminaby (extract), 258 addition of words, 13, ...

cultural viewpoints, opposing, 99 culturally specific text, exercise, 50 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The (nov ...