Axon Creative Explorations: Venzo, Miller and Atherton speculate…

Axon: Creative Explorations is an international peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the characteristics of creativity and the creative process. It is published twice a year (usually in March and September) and encourages research into and discussion of the broad domain of creativity. …

Axon: Creative Explorations 11:1 2021

This issue of the Axon journal investigates ways in which contemporary poetry speculates about

the world,

modes of being,

reality,

creativity,

writing itself

and ways of understanding the quotidian. Check the following speculations….

Essay by Paul Venzo ‘Shall I Compare me?’ Self-examination and self-speculation in the sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare

Essay by Alyson Miller ‘Writing the Otherworld Revolution’  The Transgressive Imaginings of Speculative Poetics

Essay by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington: ‘The Weight of an Empty Room’ La fantaisie and gap gardening in a prose poetry sequence