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The threshold functions as entry, transition, exit, rite of passage, and liminal space where writers gestate ideas, answer creative impulses, and shape new work. In an Australian postcolonial context, the threshold also becomes a perceptible in-between knowledge space, enabling terrains to be crossed and spoken across through poetics.","Writing on thresholds: Ali Cobby Eckermann’s Inside My Mother  \nMolly Murn  \nFlinders University, South Australia  \n[molly.murn@flinders.edu.au](molly.murn@flinders.edu.au)  \nCopyright©2018 Molly Murn. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged, in accordance with our Creative Commons Licence.  \nAbstract: This paper considers the aesthetic and material concepts of the threshold as they figure in contemporary Australian poetry, and examines how the threshold can be a productive and generative space in Australian poetics. The metaphor of the threshold asa point of entry or beginning, place of transition, place of exit, rite of passage, or liminal space, speaks to the writer’s imagination as a location of potent creative power. It is here, on the threshold, that a writer gestates ideas, follows the call of the initial creative impulse, and brings her words forth to be shaped. During this (w)rite of passage something new is made. For a writer, being on the threshold is at once a place where she can thresh out ideas (receptive), and the site of creative acts (generative) .  \nYet the threshold is not only a metaphor for the creative process; it is a liminal space where certain kinds of knowledge can be sensed in passing. The word ‘liminal’ literally means “[to occupy] a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold”(OED) . In an Australian postcolonial context, the threshold as a productive space in literature or art is particularly resonant because of the kinds of terrains that may be crossed and spoken across the threshold—the productive capacity of the middle ground.  \nThis paper will discuss the poems of Inside My Mother (2015) by Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha South Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann that inhabit the threshold as both an unsettled and productive space in contemporary Australian postcolonial poetics. Writing on the threshold, Cobby Eckermann is engaged in reimagining such poetics.  \nKeywords: Ali Cobby Eckermann; poetics; threshold.  \nWhen the first footprints of my ancestors touched the northern shoreline of this land,  \nhumanity itself had crossed a threshold. (Grant 2016)  \nThe metaphor of the threshold as a point of entry or beginning, place of transition, place of exit, rite of passage, or liminal space, speaks to the writer’s imagination as a location of potent creative power. It is here, on the threshold, that a writer gestates ideas, follows the call of the initial creative impulse, and brings her words forth to be shaped. During this (w)rite of passage something new is made. Dominique Hecq explains the “poetic attentiveness”(2015, 139) a writer must inhabit in order to conceive a poem in this way:  \nIt is an inner gesture whereby the ‘I’ relinquishes its usual control and takes […] a step back, allowing an inner space to open up, so that it can simultaneously be inside and outside, both the observer and the observed.  \n(139)  \nThis gesture, an “extension of [the] bodily self into some imaginative space” (138), suggests movement towards a position not quite here and not quite there: a threshold. Seamus Heaney might call entering this space the “first alertness” (1980, 49) of creativity. In “Feeling into Words” Heaney explains this initial spark of creativity as“pre-verbal,” “vatic” and involving a kind of “divining” (49) . The poet is on the threshold of speech. Before words. In the same way that the seed holds all the materials of the tree, the threshold is redolent with potential. As Gaston Bachelard writes in Poetics of Space,“[t]he poet speaks on the threshold of being”(1964, xvi) . As a site of poetics, the threshold is not only a site for listening, for gathering,“but is also a place of rigour and work” (Mukherji 2011, xxiii) . In this transitional space, the creative practitioner can thresh out ideas (receptive), and it is also the site of creative acts (generative) .  \nYe","cbCaipJQvAQlAYDR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipJQvAQlAYDR","pdf",442199,3,1,15,"English","en",105,"# Abstract\n# The threshold as entry, transition, and creative generative space\n## Threshold and poetic attentiveness\n## Creativity as being on the threshold\n# Liminal knowledge and postcolonial resonance\n## Liminal as a boundary-crossing position\n## Writing, energy, and innovativeness in transition\n# Focus: Inside My Mother (2015) and threshold inhabitation","[{\"question\":\"What does the threshold metaphor represent in this paper?\",\"answer\":\"It represents entry into writing, places of transition and exit, rites of passage, and liminal space where ideas are formed and shaped during creative work.\"},{\"question\":\"How is liminality connected to knowledge in the threshold space?\",\"answer\":\"The threshold is treated as a liminal position where certain kinds of knowledge can be sensed while crossing boundaries, particularly relevant in postcolonial literary contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"Which poems are central to the paper’s analysis of the threshold?\",\"answer\":\"The paper focuses on the poems in Inside My Mother (2015) by Ali Cobby Eckermann, arguing that they inhabit the threshold as both unsettled and productive.\"}]","Writing on the Threshold - 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