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Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Riding the Bus in Denver by Sheila Black
These Hills Are My Ribs by Niko Boskovic
Pain House by Mie Mortensen
Wings by Jasmine Ledesma
Back Row by Andrew Hall
i don’t know the word for depression in vietnamese by Kimberly Nguyen
Cracked and Riddled Sidewalks by Montana Rogers
Village Intellectual by Ewa MazierskaIn
Sympathy K. S. Moore
Take Two by Ariana Moulton
Contents
- Piccaninny Gorgei"He paints his Ngarranggarni Dreaming", single work poetry
- How the Angels Covet Heaveni"Perhaps we were birds once, in another life,", single work poetry
- Four Oceans, sequence poetry
- Turn Backi"You have come in the least", single work poetry
- Indian Pacific, single work poetry
- Loud, single work short story
- First Kissi"My first kiss was framed by rusty corrugated iron walls and", single work poetry
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Writing the River : Reviews Robert Adamson’s Reaching Light,
single work
— Review of Reaching Light : Selected Poems 2020 selected work poetry ;'I have been considering how it would feel to read Robert Adamson’s work for the first time through this book, remembering the first time I read him as a teenager, and how it changed me and my understanding of what poetry could do. In my initial reading of Reaching Light, selected and introduced by American poet and editor Devin Johnston and published by Chicago’s wonderful Flood Editions, I was struck by its depth, beauty, and the same power I felt on reading Adamson’s poetry for the first time. The sheer amount of ground and time the volume covers is immediately and acutely felt by the reader. There has always been a searching quality to Adamson’s work — Johnston describes him in his introduction as a ‘restless’ poet. Here, we witness a poet working at the height of his powers who has never stopped reinventing himself or his practice, who has uncompromisingly mined art and life for poetry and beauty, and who, in doing so, has found meaning in both the human and natural worlds.' (Introduction)
- A Thin Stream of Black Ink, single work short story
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Whose Voice? On Identity Politics and Publishing,
single work
criticism
'Diversity in publishing has come under intense scrutiny these past five years. The yawning difference between the number of white authors and authors of colour — as well as the startling pay disparities between them— has evoked a concerted effort to examine racism within the industry.' (Introduction)
- Hustling the Hustlers, single work essay
- Over Olive and Tini"I swallow this impatient country like a testament to Adam,", single work poetry
- Filled with Memories, single work short story
- Michele Seminara Launches Sara Dowse’s West Block, single work essay
- An Except From West Block, extract novel
- Bildungsroman, single work prose
- Sea Country, sequence poetry
- Wax and Wanei"deep in the trench", single work poetry
- Sea-country, single work poetry
- Zooxanthellaei"diadems spill with echoes", single work poetry