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Issue 18
Winter 2016
Lighting Our Darkness

Issue 18

Lighting Our Darkness

Lighting Our Darkness: Foreword and Essay

R.A. Goodrich
One wet early winter’s evening in Melbourne 2015, a group of poets began a reading of work devoted to the theme of “light on our darkness” to a small but attentive audience.

White Noise & Other Poems

Cassandra Atherton
Cassandra Atherton is an award-winning writer and scholar. She has been awarded a 2015/2016 Harvard Visiting Scholar’s position in English and was a Visiting Fellow at Sophia University, Tokyo in 2014.

Touchscreen Reality & Right of Free Practice

Linda Maria Baros
Member of the Académie Mallarmé and winner of the prestigious Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 2007, Linda Maria Baros, as emphasized by Lionel Ray, is a “poet out of the ordinary,” one whose “masterful work surprises so unpredictable is it, both dreamy and sharp at the same time.”

The Rooflet & Other Poems

Marilyne Bertoncini
Flanders-born Marilyne Bertoncini, a teacher and poet, critic and translator, is editor-in-chief of the online review Recours au Poème.

if not in paint

Marion May Campbell
Marion May Campbell has written novels (Lines of Flight, Not Being Miriam, and Prowler published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press, and Shadow Thief published by Pandanus Press), poetry, short fiction, theatre scripts, and criticism.

Récits de la Guerre

Chantal Danjou
Author of more than twenty works, Chantal Danjou lives and works in the Var district of Provence after a long Parisian sojourn. She gained her doctorate in 1985 from La Sorbonne on the lonely woman in Colette and Katherine Mansfield.

I am dead now, mother & Other Poems

Natalia de Barbaro
Natalia de Barbaro, a social psychologist lecturing at the Jagiellonian University, is one of the newer generation of Polish poets, winning the 2007 Zeszyty Literackie award for her poetry debut.

Three Poems, Three Self-Translations

Dominique Hecq
A creative writer and Associate Professor in Writing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Belgian-born Dominique Hecq has a background in literary studies, psychoanalysis, and translation.

Precipice & Other Poems

Ewa Lipska
Kraków-born Ewa Lipska is one of Poland’s pre-eminent writers and a major figure in European literature.

Out of my eyes & Other Poems

Piotr Matywiecki
Born June 1943 in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Piotr Matywiecki is well-known in contemporary Polish literature, reflected in numerous literary awards for his contributions as poet, literary critic, essayist, and anthologist.

Darkness Speaks & Other Poems

David McCooey
Most of the poems I have written in the last few years have been concerned with the interplay between light and dark, both in their literal and figurative senses.

Word-Knots & Other Poems

Lyn McCredden
Lyn McCredden, a Professor of Literary Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, has authored, co-authored and co-edited eight books in the areas of Australian poetry and fiction, the writing of poetry, and literature and the sacred since the early ’nineties.

Blue Days & Other Poems

Antonia Pont
Earlier in her writing trajectory, Antonia Pont focused on performance writing and poetry for exhibition. This preoccupation with the rhythm of work as it comes off the page into a reader's head or mouth, as well as words' irruptions/ interruptions into unmarked space.

Chemin des Aubépines

Jacques Rancourt
Jacques Rancourt was born in Québec in 1946 and has lived in Paris since 1971. He holds a doctorate in French Literature from La Sorbonne. He has published some twenty collections of poetry and art books, essays and anthologies on contemporary poetry, as well as translations from English and Spanish

Unborn & Other Poems

Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander, an Associate Professor in Literature & Writing at Deakin University in Geelong, is the author of three widely reviewed collections of poetry and other works.

Autumnal Hook & Other Poems

Ann Vickery
Ann Vickery is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing, Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry, The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon—her first poetry collection—followed by her second collection Devious Intimacy.

Praeludium & Villanella

Szymon Żuchowski
Szymon Żuchowski is a Warsaw-based poet, translator, and independent classical music journalist who studied Applied Linguistics before turning to piano and harpsichord.

This Issue of Double Dialogues was spurred by two disparate events. The first related to my attendance at a group of Melbourne and Geelong poets giving a reading of their work devoted to the theme of “light on our darkness” in Melbourne, Australia, in June 2015.

The second, at a time of ruthlessly imprisoning refugees in off-shore concentration camps by Australia, was a haunting recollection of the Chinese proverb, “Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

 

Double Dialogues | Refereed Arts Journal | ISSN 1447-9591  
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