Reading and Writing for Change

In this timely and thought-provoking book, Amelia Walker problematises and disrupts western cultural assumptions about creative practice, persuasively arguing that it is only by embracing a more open and diverse understanding of what “creative writing” might mean that socially and politically engaged writers may begin to effect change. * Oz Hardwick, Professor of Creative Writing, Leeds Trinity University, UK *Rigorously methodical, & indispensably pertinent: Amelia Walker’s Reading & Writing for Change is for any socially conscious writer seeking yet for their creative production to do something beyond the merely decorative or decorous. Walker’s exemplary book prods us back toward the (lifelong) conversations any serious writer will be having (with themselves), & offers new conceptual tools to help us answer more compellingly the questions, ‘what am I doing?’ & ‘why am I doing it?’ * Dan Disney, author of accelerations & inertias *Amelia Walker’s Reading and Writing for Change is a mercurial exploration of ‘ethically viable writing.’ The book draws on the relationship between walking and writing as exploratory methodology in order to approach radical ideas and advance boundary-breaking theories, looping back to a critique of canon formation. Walker’s writing lifts the work toward a unifying ethical vision, a dream, but a dream simultaneously wrenched and weighted by its political embodiment. An authentic, urgent and essential voice for our times. * Dominique Hecq, International Poetry Studies Institute, Australia *

Amelia Walker lectures in Creative Writing at the University of South Australia, on Kaurna Yerta, Australia. Her research engages poetry and related creative practices to raise subjugated knowledges and provide new insights into social, cultural, political, and ecological challenges of our times. Her fifth poetry collection is forthcoming in 2023.