Axon: Creative Explorations

Play Professionals

Writing Games

Introduction

Essay by Jen Crawford, Bethaney Turner and Cathy Hope

CONTEXTI WEAVES and LEAVES

Text-art by Kelly Malone

from 10 x (10 + ˉ10) = 0

Poetry by Doc Drumheller

Markov, A Game of Poems

Text-game by Alexander Raichev

One begins as an excuse but becomes a seance oracle

Text-game by Ya-Wen Ho and Roman Klapaukh

a prison for magicians

Poetry by Owen Bullock

Six definitions of love you can’t explain; The Super-salad Emerges from Cellophane

Poetry by Susan Fealy

Being in Play

The [He]Art of the [V]Reality-Perch

Images/Essay-poem by Mez Breeze

Guar; Pinky

Poetry by Cassandra Atherton

Parallax; Feather Weight

Poetry by Stephen Edgar

Play and the ‘native ethnographer’

A case study of poets interviewing poets

Essay by Jenn Webb and Monica Carroll

Reading Group

Poetry by Shane Strange

The Cell of my Art as an Amoeba

Essay by Ashley Haywood

For Ruby; UNAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

Poetry by Lyn McCredden

Play Professionals

Let’s play knowledge-makers

Lev Vygotsky, Joan Eardley and the rules of research and creative practice

Essay by Julienne van Loon

Panel Play in Three Acts

Or, How (or when) does a Panel Become a Playpen?

Essay by Peta Murray, Mattie Sempert and Stayci Taylor

Poems from Orkney

Poetry by Pamela Beasant

We Play in Public

Essay by Robert Reid

The weather in Geneva; Message to an off-world

Poetry by Paul Mills