Articles and poems and creative short prose make up contributions to ‘In/Stead: Retrospective”. Originally conceived as a sister journal to Double Dialogues, In/Stead sought over its four volumes to explore the creative process itself. At the core of the articles and creative work is the belief that metaphor, often regulated and inspired by politics, psychology and societal change, interrogates and expands our perception of the power and relevance of art in informing the human condition.

The contributors cover a vast field of enquiry: Asylum seekers; stolen childhoods; addiction and symbolic expression; fashion; art as problem solver; art across time and place; knowledge as provisional, gender issues; the role of history;  Art in translation, breakages and re-formations, and how and why poems, theatre and art is made, and a continued debate of the relationship between art and life from the position as creator and as audience.