Writing Experiment

Hazel Smith is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra, Co-leader of the Sonic Communications Research Group and Deputy Director of the University of Canberra Centre for Writing. She founded the creative writing program at the University of New South Wales. She is author of Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara and co-author of Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945. She has published two books of poetry, two CDs of performance work and numerous multimedia and hypermedia works.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Introductory strategiesChapter 1: Playing with language, running with referentsChapter 2: Genre as a moveable feastChapter 3: Working out with structuresChapter 4: Writing as recyclingChapter 5: Narrative, narratology, powerChapter 6: DialoguingPart 2: Advanced strategiesChapter 7: Postmodern f(r)ictionsChapter 8: Postmodern poetry, avant-garde poeticsChapter 9: The invert, the cross-dresser, the fictocriticChapter 10: Tongues, talk and technologiesChapter 11: New media travelsChapter 12: Mapping worlds, moving citiesConclusion: The ongoing editorAcknowledgmentsIndex

'A systematic and engaging approach to creative writing' - Carla Harryman, Wayne State UniversityBy suggesting that students who are not born poets can yet learn to become good ones, Smith performs a very important service.' - Professor Susan M. Schultz, University of HawaiiThis is an impressive book, because it covers areas of creative writing practice and theory that have not been covered in published form It links radical practice with radical (but better-known) theory, and will appeal to anyone looking for a different approach ' - Robert Sheppard, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK