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Dominique Hecq
Otopos unfurls a paradox: the interleaving and entangling
of self and topos. It began with a loss of equilibrium
impelling rhythmic departures, an incipient blood beat--
subcutaneous, through the feet…
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Volte Face by Dominique Hecq engages in a philosophical and aesthetic conversation with other arts. It comprises ekphrastic prose poems operating within a surrealist intertextual register, where the 'volte face'…
Dominique Hecq grew up in the French-speaking part of Belgium and now lives in Melbourne, Australia, and writes in English and in French. She has published a novel, six collections…
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Out of Bounds is a sequence of poems in three parts. It is a double story of dislocation that explores autobiographical fragments drawing on the protagonist’s experience of migration and…
Stretchmarks of Sun is informed by the crossing of borders-geographical, historical, formal and subjective. It explores autobiographical fragments drawing on the protagonist’s experience of dislocation and reconnection. It is poetry…
This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities around the world and beyond academia. It offers a thought-provoking analysis of creativity in the globalised marketplace, and…
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This book is a study of the poetics of creative writing as a subject in the dramatically changing context of practice as research, taking into account the importance of the…
"Dominique Hecq writes through dulled topographies of mourning, avowing death is a "singular fear of finitude against a background of black light". Autobiographical, and sharply particular, Hush Hush
*Runner-Up, 2021 Carmel Digital Literary Award*
‘Smacked is a moving collection of stories about addiction told with heart-stopping narrative control and emotional resonance.’ - Roanna Gonsalves, 2021 Carmel Digital Literary…
Dominique Hecq’s latest collection is an autobiographical journey into the real and imaginary of Australia. With her ‘faux-Romantic’ preconceptions, Hecq arrives in Australia from Europe in 1985, after a long…
This book is for creative writing practitioners and anyone interested in how literary works come into being. By focusing on the idea of inhabitation, it explores the links between creative…
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Eugen Bacon,Dominique Hecq
Speculate is a hybrid of speculative poetry and flash fiction, thrumming in a pulse of jouissance and intensity that chases the impossible.
The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women’s studies and gender theory. Although these papers are often referred to in discussions of female sexuality…
This book lays the groundwork for gender theory and reflects the debates within and outside psychoanalysis on female sexuality. It covers a range of topics, including mothering, passivity, hysteria, masochism…
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