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Siobhan Hodge

Siobhan Hodge

About Siobhan Hodge

Siobhan Hodge is a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Australia, and her thesis aims to identify a feminist tradition in Sapphic-inspired poetry through images of obsession. Born in the UK, Siobhan lives alternately in Australia and Hong Kong, and is particularly interested in literary explorations of intersections between gender, race and culture. She is an aspiring author, occasional literary critic, and poetry enthusiast who divides her time between PhD studies, karate, training horses, and making biscuit-themed jewellery.



A field report from This is Not Art

It didn’t really sink in that I was going to This is Not Art (TiNA) until about halfway through the flight from Perth to Sydney. I largely did not know what to expect, having done relatively little research beforehand and being chronically distracted by PhD studies/life as I know it.

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Siobhan Hodge reviews Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia

Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia edited by John Kinsella and Alvin Pang Ethos Books, 2008 Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia is ambitious. This anthology reads as a sample of more to come, rather than a clear …

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The Gendered Gothic: Dorothy Hewett’s Alice in Wormland

Dorothy Hewett and ‘zombies' are not generally found in the same sentence. However, Hewett liberally utilises Gothic tones and imagery in her poetry. These Gothic trappings do not serve only as motifs: they permeate the mood, conflicts and resolutions of Hewett's Alice in Wormland. This collection, published in 1987, combines pseudo-autobiographical elements with parody, mythology, and morbid images to ultimately reach a strangely optimistic resolution.

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