2023
Fellowship of Writers WA Newsletter
The August 2023 edition of the monthly newsletter from The Fellowship of Writers Western Australia features A. R. Levett's poem, 'The Wall', which is a take of Pink Floyd's song 'Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)' with a look at social media.
2021
Poetry for the Planet
An anthology of eco-poetry that showcases the work of one hundred poets from Australia and New Zealand. Despite an astonishing variety in style, poems are united in their plea to all of us to forge a new relationship with our fractured world, and move from an attitude of short-term exploitation to one of nourishment and sustainability.
This anthology features the poem 'Persistence' by A. R. Levett.
Copies of the anthology can be purchased from Litoria Press.
Red Room Poetry
An online collection of poems about nature by students and teachers.
It features the poem 'Boranup Forest' by A. R. Levett.
Creatrix #52
The March 2021 issue of the WA Poets journal.
It features the poem 'MFH' by A. R. Levett
2020
Creatrix Anthology #3
The third Creatrix anthology featuring select poetry, haiku, and senyru from 2017-2019.
It features the poem 'The Split' by A. R. Levett.
Letters to our Home
Letters to Our Home was conceived during the Australian bushfire crisis during the summer of 2019/2020. It was inspired by the northern hemisphere publication, Letters to the Earth, and like that publication we hope creative responses to the growing climate, biodiversity and environmental crises will help us come to terms with the situation we collectively face, nurture our spirits and inspire us to take, and to demand, action.
The contributors to this collection vary from school-age children to parents, workers and retired people, published poets and newcomers. They write from their hearts and are inspired by their passion to see art as a selfless act of giving, and as activism.
We hope you enjoy this brief journey around Western Australia’s unique precious places and how we as humans live within them.
It features the poem 'Benefactor' by A. R. Levett.
You can purchase copies here.
2020/20 Visions
The 2020 anthology of the Armadale Writers Group.
It contains A. R. Levett's award-winning short story 'Release'.
Creatrix #48
The March 2020 issue of the WA Poets journal.
It features the poem 'Unearthing Sunshine' by A. R. Levett:
2019
The Writers' Magazine Issue #4
The November 2019 issues of The Writers' Magazine features A. R. Levett's short story, 'Release', which is about overcoming grief.
Brushstrokes
The poems in the anthology, we believe, make for pleasurable and thoughtful reading. They are meditative and dramatic, celebratory and regretful, loving and elegiac, take place in the country, the city and suburbs, were written by both women and men – we have made no attempt to count the ratio – and by both well-known poets and emerging voices. Whatever we think, the poems remain resolutely themselves, and await your interpretation; they certainly offer a reader’s engagement.
This anthology contains the poem 'The Outsider' by A. R. Levett.
You can purchase copies here.
Creatrix #44
The March 2019 issue of the WA Poets journal.
It features the poem 'The Good Boy' by A. R. Levett.
2018
Creatrix #42
The September 2018 issue of the WA Poets poetry journal.
It contains the poem 'The Outsider' by A. R. Levett.
2017
Wooden Skeletons
"Memory, which provides the continuity that gives us a sense of identity, is clearly to the fore in Wooden Skeletons. Here are mature poets whose poems arise from the intersections of memory with vivid present experience. Many of the poems involve responses to contemporary works of art, visual images that provoke sharp verbal ones. These poets associated with the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre show that depth of experience enables rather than hinders new perceptions."
– Emeritus Professor Dennis Haskell AM
Wooden Skeletons features four poems by A. R. Levett:
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The Cough
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Medicated
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The Flock
Creatrix Anthology #2
The second volume of the Creatrix Anthology, collecting selected poems published in Creatrix issues #15 - #25 between 2012 and 2016. This volume features poetry and haiku from a large variety of WA Poets.
It contains the following poem 'Recoil' from A. R. Levett.
2016
Creatrix #35
The December 2016 issue of the WA Poets poetry journal.
It contains the following poems by A. R. Levett:
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Illusion
Suddenly the Rain
"Suddenly the Rain, the sixth anthology produced by the Poets at KSP, is a dazzling achievement by 14 very accomplished and very different poets.
The Perth hills landscape is a central starting point from which a huge range of ideas, cultural references and explorations, experiences and memories arrows out to target the wider world.
So much of life’s panoply, from the poignant to the humorous, is compressed into this moving and uplifting collection. The range of forms - free-verse, acrostics, experimental sonnets, haibun, haiku, prose-poetry - is just one example of the book’s diversity. Within these 70 pages, so many aspects of life are recorded, commemorated and celebrated.
It is an anthology which will delight and resonate in the reader long after a first and, no doubt, many subsequent readings."
– Shane McCauley
Suddenly the Rain features five poems by A. R. Levett:
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Camouflage
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Paternal Inheritance
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Lifeless
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Brilliance
2015
Creatrix #31
The December 2015 issue of the WA Poets poetry journal.
It contains the following poems from A. R. Levett:
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Enthral
Thistledown
"In this anthology, the Poets@KSP have added a most impressive collection of poems to their seven previous fine books. Thistledown ranges widely through the natural world, aspects of childhood, and the passions and trials of maturity. The poems are notable for their variety of structure, their delight in language and the telling phrase; and for their sense of restraint and decorum which gives so many of them their power. It’s an anthology to be read and savoured many times over."
– Ron Pretty
Thistledown features four poems by A. R. Levett:
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Refuge
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Milo
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Bolster
Creatrix #30
The September 2015 issue of the WA Poets poetry journal.
It contains the following poem from A. R. Levett:
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Harvester of Sorrow
Retold: Old Tales, New Voices
"Once upon a time, a group of writers came together in the Perth hills. Each Tuesday they congregated in the historial house of Western Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard to refine their craft, and became known as the KSP Writers' Circle. Retold is the result of the group's challenge to retell classic fairy tales in a modern Australian voice. Drawing inspiriation from traditional tales such as Alice in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, and Little Red Riding Hood, these short stories have been adapted for an adult audience. Prepare to go into the wood, but be sure to bring your GPS."
Retold: Old Tales, New Voices was edited and co-typeset by A. R. Levett. It contains his short story Big Bad.
Creatrix #29
The June 2015 issue of the WA Poets poetry journal.
It contains the following poems from A. R. Levett:
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Ode to an Era of Blue Skies
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Coloured
Creatrix #28
The March 2015 issue of the WA Poets poetry journal.
It contains the following poems from A. R. Levett:
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Abject
2014
The Light Painters
"These poems trace their light beams upon the diversity of life. From the sacredness of insects, to family, love, animals, travel, memory, despair and hope; the KSP poets examine in fine detail those small and large moments that unite us humans. A tender and illuminating volume." - Dr Nandi Chinna, Independent Researcher and Poet.
The Light Painters contains the following poems from A. R. Levett:
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Redefined
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Notice
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Buttress
2013
Scripting Therapeutic Screen Stories:
Animating the Healing Potential of Film Narratives
A. R. Levett's first class honours thesis contains an exegesis (see abstract below for information) and the short animated feature-film script, The Essence Within, which follows the adventure of young boy, Charlie, who stumbles upon Sperial, home to the Energy-Spirits and the Creator-Energy. With the help of his mentor, Reginold, and energy-spirit Aureole, Charlie learns how to manipulate energy-signatures. When Malgamor, a darkness that has been trying to consume the Creator-Energy since the creation of the world, tries to break into Sperial, Charlie tries to confront it on his own with his new powers. But with the mysterious Shadow-Charlie sabotaging his efforts, is he powerful enough to overcome this ancient evil?
Exegesis Abstract
Beyond entertainment, animated narratives can potentially induce psychological healing, termed “individuation.” Stories exist in many forms, like literature, film and conversation, as well as in the human mind, or “psyche.” These “self-narratives” use life experience to shape consciousness. Therefore, effective storytelling based on archetypal myths can restructure the psyche. Film narratives communicate meaning through symbols, termed “textual cues”, while screenwriters employ specific templates, which organise story information into familiar structures. These guide audiences towards predetermined meaning. Through bibliotherapy, which is the use of literature for therapeutic purposes, audiences project their unconscious content onto narrative components that resonate with it. Ego-consciousness can then integrate this material. Films, like dreams, incorporate raw unconscious material, labelled “archetypes”, and symbols, conscious interpretations of the archetypes, to affect unconscious reactions that facilitate psychological growth. When a narrative’s protagonist undertakes the “Hero’s Journey”, a quest’s twelve stages that enact change, they guide audiences through a metaphorical portrayal of individuation. Audiences can then mimic this path to prompt their own inner journey. Animation augments storytelling’s healing ability because its fantasised appearance transforms individuation’s threatening psychological information to reveal wisdom. Since screenwriters delve into the collective unconscious to create stories, they initiate audience healing. Thus, they represent modern society’s shamans. By creating a screenplay for an animated short feature film and discussing how screenwriters can induce psychological healing, I demonstrate the therapeutic potential of film narratives.
2011
Something is Happening vol. 2
The November 2011 edition of Something is Happening is a collection of Talus Prize winning short stories and poems.
It contains the poem 'Silent Thief' from A. R. Levett.
2010
Writing on the Wall
A collection of short stories and poems.
It contains the short story 'Laboro' from A. R. Levett.
Underground Writers Issue #3
The May 2010 issue of Underground Writers.
It contains the “Pick of the Month” short story 'The Family Pet (Green Fields and Fluffy Bunnies)' from A. R. Levett.
You can read the entire issue here.