AustLit
Alternative title:
Persian Passages
Issue Details:
First known date:
2017...
vol.
76
no.
3
2017
of
Long Paddock
est. 2007
Long Paddock
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Notes
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Only literary material by within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
- Laetitia Nanquette, Amy Motlagh et al.: “Translations between Centre and Periphery: from Iran to the West”
- And Flora by New Zealand poet Nick Ascroft
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Roadi"the road scars right, across the", single work poetry
- Nocturnal Housei"I sit naked", single work poetry
- In Colloquial Treesi"Stageset on a near", single work poetry
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The Madness of No Parting : a Suite of Gold Coast Poemsi"geodesic rain",
single work
poetry
This poem is in three numbered parts.
- Standedge, Illuminatedi"How warmly our passing illuminates the snow,", single work poetry
- Cohomologyi"Mainstreaming to the socialised cycles", single work poetry
- Portraiti"tableland face", single work poetry
- Blue-ringed Octopusi"She wore a mood ring", single work poetry
- Chinese Lanternsi"You started up with your Prozac because I kept thinking about him—", single work poetry
- Pooli"To think of things Chihuahuas hear", single work poetry
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Detergent,
single work
short story
'Anyone who lives in a rooming house lives in a rooming house for a reason. With Room 8 the reason was obvious and it was only a matter of time before the Office kicked him out. He was Caucasian, approximately 155cm and 75kg, early thirties, with a prominent jaw. Eye colour unknown due to the baseball cap pulled low on his brow. Under that cap there were police and magistrates, psychologists, doctors, family and fellow roomers. He would curse them all aloud, day and night, keeping people awake. To judge by the way he swore at his mother, she was the one who had the most advice for him.' (Introduction)
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Further to Fly,
single work
short story
'This isn’t a story about what happened to him at the office. There are stories he could tell you about that: the way he stumbles from one urgent demand to another; the lumpen dread he feels when confronted with a furious fluster of emails. This is not the story of the loneliness that comes upon him halfway through another pointless meeting. He’ll save those stories for another time. (Introduction)
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Adam Aitken, One Hundred Letters Home,
single work
essay
'Adam Aitken’s memoir, One Hundred Letters Home, is a near-heroic exercise in excavation and reconstruction, travelling as it does from the United Kingdom and Thailand to several cities in Australia, tracing the process through which Aitken uncovers and recovers almost every emotionally-significant fact, memory and thought to do with his parents, and how these have come to affect him.' (Introduction)
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Gretchen Shirm, Where the Light Falls,
single work
essay
'At the heart of Gretchen Shirm’s novel Where the Light Falls is a meditation on silence, and art as of a means of speaking. The novel’s protagonist, Andrew Spruce, is an art photographer who sees “honesty in broken things” (298), choosing subjects that are damaged in some way: a fractured tea cup that has been glued back together, a grown man with a full set of baby teeth, a girl with a paralysed face. Through framing and capturing a broken subject, Andrew is able to transform it—a metaphor for integrating traumatic experiences into reality. Shirm writes, “A photograph could do this: it could make strangeness seem normal and transform it into a thing of beauty” (205). In this novel, the act of representing is ultimately a means of healing.' (Introduction)
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Isabelle Li, A Chinese Affair,
single work
essay
'One of the most striking elements of Isabelle Li’s A Chinese Affair is its sense of melancholy. Her inaugural short story collection is comprised of sixteen subtly oppressive tales, divided into four suites; nearly all are starkly told, and haunted by the weight of what remains unarticulated. There is an authorial confidence to A Chinese Affair that belies its existence as a debut collection; showing a restraint that tends to elude many (younger) writers. In fact, I suspect that the collection as a whole may prove to be understated to the point of frustration for many readers: many of the tales are devoid of clear resolutions, startlingly opaque on even the most basic level of narrative...' (Introduction)
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Arjun Von Caemmerer, Vice Versa,
single work
essay
'All poetry has unknown quality. The word is essentially an experiment. Each textual construct has multiple realities only restrained by imaginative possibility. In Vice Versa, a significant work of poetic exploration, Arjun Von Caemmerer asks us to journey beyond language convention and form. Any illusion of singular meaning becomes a playful quality on the page, instigating a textual re-think, and ultimately, unconditional reading. His multi-dimensional work negotiates letter, word and syntax in a ludic interrogation of concrete reality and abstract ideas. Along with an active spatial quality, the work deconstructs meaning, and in this dialogue, openly disrupts the orthodox of traditional poetry. Von Caemmerer offers an epigraph of Emily Dickinson; “I dwell in Possibility.../More Numerous of Windows”, almost as if in open invitation.' (Introduction)
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