Hooray! My creative-critical PhD thesis is now open access. That means you, and er, well, anyone really, can download it and read it. I hope you will. The first half is the critical stuff: it looks at how brain injury is represented through language in both medical and literary settings. The second half is my poetry manuscript, which represents the disorienting experience my life-altering brain injury. Download Concussion Episodes: a creative-critical project on poetry and brain injury , at the University of Otago's online archive: https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/12826
A longpoem response to the mining at Foulden Maar, generated at a workshop led by writers Iona Winter and Kirstie McKinnon and produced by Kate Dawson and Sophie Briggs on behalf of the Mining for Meaning: the Geoethics of Extracted Industries project. The workshop occured in Middlemarch, Otago in October 2022. More writing and art from the workshop can be found at https://www.rareearth-art.com/foulden-maar-writing-group Claire Lacey · Ensemble: Foulden Maar — a poem by Claire Lacey, performed with Dane Oates Foulden Maar Dramatis personae: Mined Text — the reportage The Soil — as described The Poet — always puts themselves into the poem The Fossil Beetle — found at Foulden Maar The Diagram — found in the New Zealand Listener The Corporate Entity — our villain The Underfunded Locals — the chorus Fossil: Foulden Maar The diatoms sank to the bottom, forming ‘a thick blanket of fine-grained siliceous ooze that over time built up to become diatomite’