Prose
Essays & Criticism
2023
Collaborative Ekphrastic Project on ‘Word Made Flesh’ by the artist Paul Yore at the Australian Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Writing in the Expanded Field: Touching, Feeling, Writing
https://expanded-field.vercel.app/shari-kocher/
2019
Break / The silent life-giver of worlds
Westerly, 64:2, 2019, 126-128.
2018
Matri-Liminal Bodies: Oceanic Empathy in Dorothy Porter’s Crete via Anne Carson’s ‘The Anthropology of Water
Inhabitation: Creative Writing with Critical Theory. Ed. Dominique Hecq and Julian Novitz. Gylphi.: Great Britain, 2018. 233 – 253.
2016
Dorothy Porter’s Akhenaten: where verse novel meets verse biography via the polyphonic poetic mask
Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Ed. Anna Jackson, Helen Rickerby and Angelina Sbroma. Victoria University Press. 2016. 95-119.
2015
Minding the Mountain: Special Guest Interview with Dr. Constanza Ceruti
Creative Writing Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, Wed 18 Feb, 2015.
2014
University of Melbourne, Australia.
The Beautiful Truths of Biographical Verse: Palimpsestic Masks and Paper Bodies in Dorothy Porter’s Akhenaten
Truth or Beauty: Poetry and Biography, Hosted by Victoria University, Wellington, 2014.
Fire and Ice: the world conceived as subject
Paper given at the 5th Biennial International Conference of the CWWA: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Environments, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 3-5 July, 2014.
Sonqoqui: Excavating Mt. Llullaillaco via a metaphor of weaving
Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being. Ed. Shane Strange, Paul Hetherington and Jen Webb. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2014. 53-67.
2013
Dadirri' and white affect: towards a poetics of listening
New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences. Volume 2 Number 1, 2013. The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Palimpsests and Paper Bodies: towards a poetics of revolt in Anne Carson’s ‘The Glass Essay’ and Dorothy Porter’s Akhenaten.
TRAFFIC, No. 13. 3-29. 2013.
Sonqoqui: Excavating Mt. Llullaillaco
Paper given at the 18th Annual Conference of Australasian Association of Writing Programs: Creative Manoeuvres, University of Canberra, 2013.
2011
Palimpsests in Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay”
Paper given at the Faculty of Arts Work in Progress Day, Melbourne University, June 2011.
2003
To show with love much that cannot be spoken of’: Reflections on Gwen Harwood’s Collected Poems: 1943-1995
The New England Review. No.18. 2003. 18-19.
Fiction
2018
Meditation on Time after the Death of My Father
Time: an Anthology of Microlit, Ed. Cassandra Atherton, Spineless Wonders, 2018.
2003
Drowning, Not Waving
The New England Writer’s Centre Anthology, ed. Susan McMichael, 2003. 12. (also published in The New England Review, 2003).
Theses
2015
PhD (Melbourne University)
Subjective Renewals: Tropes of the Archaeological Body in the verse novels of Anne Carson and Dorothy Porter & Sonqoqui: a Verse Novel
Melbourne University Library & Visual Communications Library, John Medley Building, Reading Room, University of Melbourne.
2010
MA Thesis
Melbourne University, 2010.