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Jenny Hedley

Jenny Hedley is a PhD candidate and Digital Writing teacher at RMIT whose research appears in TEXT and the Journal of Positive Sexuality. Her literary criticism features in Griffith Review, Overland, Westerly, Mascara and the Sydney Review of Books.

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Jenny Hedley Reviews Peter Rose and Sholto Buck

A tiny bag of crystal shard, almost empty, is tucked into Peter Rose’s Rattus Rattus (2005), presumably by its previous St Kilda Library–associated borrower. I am tempted to sample the remnants in order to conjure a different version of (my) critical self — the excuse being that I proposed reviewing Rose’s latest poetry volume Attention, Please! alongside Sholto Buck’s debut In the Printed Version of Heaven through a lens of performative selves. I move the bag from pages to table and back again, entertaining and then shelving temptation, unsure whose impulse will win out: the addictive personality of yore or this stable, routine, maternal self.

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A Lonely Girl Phenomenology

I am following a lineage of sad and lonely girls, women who diarised or even fictionalised their sadness, knowing that their words would be scorned by the men they loved, men whose so-called serious efforts were lauded and canonised, while their own projects were dismissed as personal, histrionic.

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i’ll <3 u when ur gone

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A Compendium of Failed Relationships

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