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With another year concluded at Bowen Street Press, we proudly present our new edition of the BSP Review.
As with previous years, the collaboration between the RMIT second year Creative Writing students and Master of Writing and Publishing students focused on responses to art. Our authors have been encouraged not to write about art, but rather to write with and through and alongside art.
Our writers drew inspiration from The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s (ACCA) exhibition ‘Five Acts of Love’, curated by Dr Nur Shkembi OAM. This exhibition explored themes within Sufi philosophy, presenting them through five core experiences:
‘Five Acts of Love’ offers space for reflection and an opportunity to delve into profound internal and external truth telling through the exploration of various acts of love. The exhibition revolves around five acts: resistance, revolution, intimacy, memory and annihilation. Each act of love circles around what we ultimately relinquish when we love—and are loved.
The exhibition prompted our authors to take risks, to experiment and push their writing to unfamiliar destinations.
The title for the 2025 BSP Review, sunder, draws inspiration from an excerpt of a Rumi poem which accompanied one of the artworks.
We came whirling
Out of nothingness
Scattering stars
Like dust
It sunders
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Rumi, Fragments / Ecstasies, Translations by Daniel Liebert.
We are proud of the pieces presented here and their breadth of form, subject matter and genre.
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