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KIN explores how kinship, our understandings of who we are and where we come from, engages with dynamic senses of Country and belonging to Country. Country is storied, we are storied and kinship is nurtured and sustained by living and emergent stories about place and belonging.' (Elfie Shiosaki : Editorial introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Translations:
6 Grzegorz Kwiatkowski Translations by Peter Constantine
5 Halina Poświatowska Translations by Karolina Zapal and Ryan Mihaly
3 Dong Li Translations by Song Linmatrihaemoglobin by Khairani Barokka
Four Tanka, Four Seasons – Breezes in Tokyo by Uchimura Kaho (内村佳保)
Homesick by Kaitlyn Cui
Tasseography by Leila Lois
Mami Wata by N'gadie Roberts
Memory of Sounds by Joanna George
Queendom by Julienne Maui Mangawang
I Have to Explain This Because I Hate the Word “Bastardization” and I’m Tired of People Equating Me to Things I Am Not by Ashley Somwaru
11 works by Arlene TextaQueen
18 Works by Maxxi Minaxi May
Contents
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Accepting the Gift, Doing the Work : Angelita Biscotti Interviews Sara M Saleh,
Angelita Biscotti
(interviewer),
single work
interview
'Catching COVID-19 didn’t stop Sara Saleh from showing up to this discussion about poetry, place, and the place of poetry in the present moment. The exchange took place between 21 – 25 January 2022, quickly expanding into a 7,000-word conversation. The below interview reveals a condensed version of this chat without removing the essence of our exchanges.' (Introduction)
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Lunchtime Variations : Dominic Symes Interviews Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton,
Dominic Symes
(interviewer),
single work
interview
'Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the self-help sections of bookshops, expecting to find the secret to long life and enduring happiness written down somewhere. As a poet, I am preternaturally worried about poetry running out on me: the inspiration drying up, the fun of it going out for a pack of cigarettes one day and never coming back, leaving me with nothing but a sink full of dishes and a manuscript full of melancholy poems about birds.' (Introduction)
- The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets : Poems by Carody Culver, sequence poetry
- Short Biographies of Magicians’ Assistantsi"Tallulah Sparkles—cut in half", single work poetry
- The More I Thinki"The more I think about it the bigger it gets", single work poetry
- A Short Guided Meditation by a Thought Leaderi"As a thought leader, I’ll be leading your thoughts in today’s guided meditation.", single work poetry
- Special Partiesi"A woman wearies of the same kind of biscuits", single work poetry
- Money Is Cheapi"When we have money, we’ll have dollar signs in our eyes because our eyes will be dollars. When we go to our", single work poetry
- At the Perfume Counter of Cultural Theoryi"Mother by Freud", single work poetry
- Raymond Chandler’s The Big Cookiei"Detective Philip Marlowe deals with some dough", single work poetry
- Top Ten Pocket Classicsi"To Kill a Pocketbird by Harper Lee", single work poetry
- Door of Air : Poems by Morgan Yasbincek, sequence poetry
- Door of Airi"eight of us under this ceiling, seven standing, one", single work poetry
- Bardoi"hot-bread sky spread with jacaranda silk", single work poetry
- Lady of Sorrowsi"we both see the heart in the eye of the tempest", single work poetry
- Golden Mala – for Bi"it’s been four days since you", single work poetry
- Dark of the Darki"dark of the moon in the dark", single work poetry
- Renunciationi"it was night when her tongue", single work poetry
- Kinship Countryi"Claustrophobic without the coast", single work poetry
- Riversi"Three rivers run", single work poetry
