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Book 2.0 - Volume 13, Issue 1, 2023

Volume 13, Issue 1

Volume 13, Issue 1, 2023

Language: English
  • Editorial

      • Editorial

        https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00079_2

        This editorial is a brief summary of the articles, interviews and reviews contained in issue one of Volume 13 of (), an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal primarily concerned with book creation and publication, including writing, illustration and design and the theoretical and practical study of books, literature, creative writing, storytelling, languages and cultures. Contents for this issue include articles, interviews and reviews mainly focusing on collaboration and cooperation between creative practitioners, scholars and in publishing.

  • Articles

      • ‘Partners in education’: Primary educational publishers’ understanding of their role

        https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00078_1

        The twenty-first century has seen the education ecosystem change drastically, with increased digitization of the classroom and more recently the global pandemic. These changes have been entwined with publishers’ own understanding of their role. Based on semi-structured interviews with ten industry professionals, this article aims to understand how primary educational publishers see their role and the future of the industry. The findings reveal a mission-driven sector operating in a complex environment, shaped by government policies and regulations, and the impact of technology, educational research, pedagogy and learning design. To support educators, publishers produce teaching resources and learning materials, interpret government regulation and curricula, research and develop expertise in learning design and pedagogical knowledge, research user and market needs, and provide professional development to educators. Despite these challenges and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the interviewees believed that primary educational publishing would continue to expand, innovate and support the educators of Australia in the future by producing a combination of print and digital resources.

    • The spirit of place: Murmurs along the ancient ways

      https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00080_1

      Andrew Rafferty’s photography has frequently been described as ‘beautiful’, but his work can also be radical and challenging. He finds particular inspiration working with writers and especially poets, but the notion that the images are simply there to illustrate the text is anathema to him. In his latest collaboration with poet Kevin Crossley-Holland, he uses movement as a metaphor to convey the emotions of the landscape – to capture impressions, drawing on the essence of the poetry, but without producing anything strictly representational, and create images, which although rooted in the landscape, are more abstract, more expressionistic. In his view neither poetry nor images should attempt to describe the other, but there should be a close coexistence between the two. As the reader moves back and forward between text and image and image and text, there comes a deeper understanding of ideas within the mind of the poet and the mind of the artist that may not have been made explicit, but are nonetheless there.

    • Lineage and loss: Practising a traditional art in changing times

      https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00081_1

      Born in a family of mixed linguistic heritage in a industrial village in north-east Wales, Grahame Davies found himself – thanks to a crucial meeting with a charismatic teacher – learning his poetic craft in the Welsh-speaking tradition. While working as a journalist in newspapers and later in broadcasting, he became one of his country’s most prominent poets and authors, later developing an international reputation as a librettist for classical composers. In this piece he reflects on the transmission mechanisms of individual and communal creativity, the varying status of poets in Welsh and English-language culture, the challenges and opportunities of working in joint artistic and professional enterprises, and on the delicate, but often hugely rewarding, process of working with audiences and with those who commission artistic works.

    • From illustrating poems to creating a picture book: Creative collaborations with Italian author Anna Travagliati, Italian artist Serena Della Bona and US translator and editor Bristin Scalzo Jones

      https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00082_1

      In this article, author Anna Travagliati explores her creative collaborations with artist Serena Della Bona and translator and editor Bristin Scalzo Jones, in the form of summaries of two projects: (2021), whose English translation was carried out by Jones, and their latest project, the picture book | , an original story which reinterprets the familiar fairy tale . A large part of the article consists of interviews conducted by the author with Serena Della Bona and Bristin Scalzo Jones, who detail their respective backgrounds, interests, professional practices and their views on collaboration and on creating picture books for a young adult and adult readership. These interviews centre feminist collaboration in both content and form, in so far as they allow this article to push back against masculine individualistic conceptions of authorship by providing a polyphony of female voices, spoken in their own words. The article is accompanied by two appendices which provide examples from both and .

  • Articles

      • Harry’s Mirror: Desire, fantasy and the Mirror of Erised in

        By Tom Ue
        https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00084_1

        The British edition of J. K. Rowling’s (1997) celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022. The American edition (1998) will follow suit in 2023. The series comprises seven books that follow the conventional seven years of UK secondary schooling between years seven and thirteen (i.e., grades six to twelve in the United States). In this article, I celebrate this first novel by examining Rowling’s commentary on desire. Writers of imaginative fiction have always been interested in this theme. Rowling is no exception. The Sorting Hat, which organizes Hogwarts’ new pupils into the school’s four houses, is a case in point: it recognizes Harry’s potentials were he to follow Voldemort’s footsteps and join the Slytherins, but, ultimately, it respects and prioritizes his desires. ‘Are you sure?’ it asks Harry, in response to his reluctance to be placed there, ‘You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that – no? Well, if you’re sure – better be GRYFFINDOR!’ ([1997] 2022: 130) The Harry Potter series (1997–2007) follows Harry’s growth, which necessitates curbing his desires so that he does not become another Voldemort. The Mirror of Erised offers, I argue, an especially interesting case study for investigating this theme. My sustained attention on this device and its effects on characters and what they do exposes some of ’s complexities, while enhancing our appreciation for Rowling’s characters and for her project.

    • The glamour of grammar: Some thoughts about words on the page

      https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00085_1

      The words grammar and glamour come from the same Scots root, meaning the ability to beguile. For this author, there was nothing beguiling about the study of grammar in grade school. I needed to make it my own, to internalize it, recognize its power to create a sense of rhythmic assurance on the page, breath air into the actual stuff of narrative. The article includes a potted history of the development of grammar to illustrate how it helps bridge the gap between spoken language and its appearance on the page; the development of a flexible mechanism for formal patterning that is limber enough to roll with the punches if you care to use it creatively. To stop the action in any number of subtle ways, make a reader hesitate, or make the story race forward – to hold the reader in narrative thrall. This is the beguilement of grammar.

  • Review

      • , Matthew Hollis (2022)

        https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00086_5

        Review of: , Matthew Hollis (2022)

        London: Faber & Faber, 544 pp.,

        ISBN 978-0-57129-721-4, h/bk, £25.00

        (2022), ‘Matthew Hollis: The Waste Land’, , London, 7 December, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify

        , Jed Rasula (2022)

        Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 344 pp.,

        ISBN 978-0-69122-577-7, h/bk, £35.00

        (2022), ‘Jed Rasula What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern’, The New Books Network, December, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify

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