Amanda Johnson

'The poem after forests'

Amanda Johnson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2019

This ecocritical poem examines selected romantic ropes of water in European modern poetries, re-presenting these in a context of g..

First Dog, Last Dog: New Intertextual Short Fictions about Canis lupus familiaris

Amanda Johnson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Animal Studies Journal

This exegetical essay and 'companion' short fictions examines intertextual representations of Canis lupus familiaris’ from Homer t..

After the Archive: Park Life

Amanda Johnson

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2019

This exhibition questions the fate of public gardens in a context of anthropogenic climate change, re-visualising early Australian..

Hadley Art Prize

Amanda Johnson

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2019

The painting 'Colonial Heat: Warming Time' interrogates early Australian settler discovery narratives using specific techniques an..

'The Art: Ultramarine'

A Johnson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

This post-quest poem engages with themes of global displacement, examining refugee experience and post trauma. The free-verse poem..

'You see: Romantic'

A Johnson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

Based on interviews with refugees moving through Rome in 2017, this poetic double narrative explores devices of polyphony, interte..

'What Rubbish: Ecologies of Vibrant Matter in Contemporary Poetry'

A Johnson

Journal article  |  2018  |  AXON CREATIVE EXPLORATIONS

This essay explores how ordinary objects and substances are given agency to become, in Jane Bennett’s words, ‘agential actants’. I..

'Ring-in'

A Johnson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

'Ring-in' is an elegy for my late mother Roma Johnson. The poem deploys free verse and personal vernacular rumination to disrupt ..

'St Cecelia'

A Johnson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

‘St Cecelia’ is a feminist, free verse poem that aims to foreground the violent death of the singer during the Roman empire's repr..

''The Lost Garden of Recherche Bay: First Contact Plantings in Tasmania, Painting as Archival Countersign'

A Johnson

Journal article  |  2018  |  UNLIKELY JOURNAL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS

In pre-colonial, remote Van Diemen's Land, a French expedition planted a garden. Ship's gardener Felix Delahaye records for poster..