Fragments from a Paper Witch (Poetry, Essays, Theatre) Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2008Finalist in Innovation Category Adelaide Festival Literary Awards, 2010 Commended by Gig Ryan in Age Book of the Year Poetry Awards.

Most recent Publication if not in paint (poem) printed by Poet and Master printer Alan Loney with drawings by Miriam Morris. Malvern East: Electio Editions, 2012

Forthcoming November 2012 UWAP  http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/ 

konkretion (novella)

konkretion stages in contemporary Paris a dialogue between two women writers grappling with the relationship of writing, revolution and terror. The contested site is a dramatic poem sequence by one of the women, re-imagining moments in the lives of Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin of the Red Army Faction [die Rote Armee Fraktion]: from Ulrike’s tripwire decision in 1970 to take the ‘leap into illegitimacy’, through the flight underground, the crimes committed in the name of ‘armed struggle’, to their conflict-blighted incarceration until 1976. The work is driven by the question whether a different kind of poetics might have had led Meinhof and Ensslin to less tragically murderous outcomes and how, in commemoration, we might avoid romancing the outlaw.

Genet High St Northcote

Jean Genet cruises High St Northcote

Shadow Thief Judges' comments West Australian Premier's Literary Awards

Fiction
Marion May Campbell - Shadow Thief
Pandanus Books
This is not so much a roller coaster of a book as two. It traces the lives of two young girls as they grow into adulthood, one from a dull middle class family but bright and rebellious, the other thrust by her mother’s uncertainties into a bizarre quasi-familial relationship with the creepy Doctor Lancaster and his family as they leave Australia to live in England and travel the Continent. In his narcissism Lancaster is reminiscent of the father in Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children, but the budding artist here is the rebel against conformity, not the offspring of an atypical background. The novel deftly and convincingly upturns our expectations at a number of points, and the ending leaves us both uncertain and immensely satisfied. Marion May Campbell is a dazzling stylist, and the energy and pulse (the book’s terms) of her prose welds these two stories into a fascinating unity.

Judges' Comment From Adelaide Festival Literary Awards 2010

Shortlisted

Fragments from a Paper Witch by Marion May Campbell (Salt Publishing)

Fragments from a Paper Witch gathers a rich collection of Marion Campbell’s writing: essays, poems, stories and a short play. Campbell is seriously playful with language, big on puns, intense with intent. Her collection belongs in a literary tradition sometimes modernist, sometimes post-modernist, but always feminist. Campbell is not afraid to take intellectual risks and her collection records a deep fascination with the politics of language and its use. Perhaps the most successful of these “fragments” paradoxically catch out “language at play” at the same time as they worry at the complexity and contradictions of “lived experience”.

Elizabeth Holdsworth's review

See Elizabeth Holdsworth's Review of Fragments from a Paper Witch


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