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It’s a joy to bring you the winning poems in this year’s Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Stuart Barnes, John Foulcher and Andrew Sutherland – and many thanks to our judges. In this issue, as well as our selection of excellent fiction, nonfiction and arts features, we also include two Tasmanian special features: nine poems from the ‘More Than Human Poetry Project’; and creative responses to Tasmania’s maritime history from the LUME residency. At the time of printing this issue, the news was of war in Ukraine, devastating floods in Queensland and New South Wales, and the ‘grave and mounting’ threat of climate change evident in the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Against such a backdrop, Kristen Lang’s words introducing the ‘More Than Human Poetry Project’ resonate so powerfully: the poems ‘reflect a sincerity given, by these poets, amid an almost ungraspable pain – the conflict and loss that is the current and threatened future state of the planet. The parallel hope can be as difficult to hold on to, though it is certainly present.’
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Crowther Reinterpreted by Andrew Harper
Our City of Prisoners : Refugee Rights and Resistance in Kangaroo Point by Elina Abou Sleiman
Joan Didion : To Know, to Feel, to go on Anyway by Magdalena Lane
The House of Longing by Gay Hawkes and Peter Hughes
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Sestina After B. Carlislei"My dying friend maintains Heaven", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Antarcticai"I was thinking about Antarctica", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- Scarletti"Scarlett Kate O'Mara joined us in her final year", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Ellai"Ella loiters at her locker: Someone's put these things", single work poetry (p. 8)
- The Girls Become, sequence poetry (p. 8-9)
- Rosei"Her parents always absent, she fell to thin", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Avai"At first she didn't seem to care, and neither", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Katiei"Absent in my office, Katie's mother slumps.", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Most, Thoughi"Most, though, make it through.", single work poetry (p. 9)
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Mera Pata,
single work
essay
(p. 18-23)'I keep returning to a time and place: my eight-year-old self under the mango tree, which no longer exists in the wake of Cyclone Nigel. Although I am sure you will find its debris along with pieces of me - skin cells, hair strands - buried deep in the soil.' (Introduction)
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Behind the Scenes of The Story Behind My Suitcase,
single work
essay
(p. 30-35)'Late nights after work, my colleague Gini and I draft a grant proposal. Months later, I'm standing in front of a group of her English language students at the local tech college. They're giggling wary. For most of them, the drama warm-up games I get them to play remind them of childhood - was a long time ago. Before the war, before the death of their sister, or their father. They're only in their late teens and early twenties, but childhood is something that happened in a refugee camp, cut short of mixed with too-adult memories. Now, their lives are in metamorphosis, straddling worlds: not adult, nor child; not foreigner, nor Australian, not lost, nor yet quite finding their path.' (Introduction)
- Beasts in Heat, single work short story (p. 36-37)
- Under the Spreadsheet, single work short story (p. 42-46)
- Damage Reports, single work prose (p. 48-51)
- The Wolves, single work short story (p. 52-55)
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The More Than Human Poetry Project,
single work
essay
(p. 56-57)'An effective response to global biodiversity loss, climate change and the pollution of our air, soil and water requires cultural shifts that remain difficult to fully imagine. The reconnection of the majority of human behaviours and aspirations to the biosphere. The embrace not of the glamour of human- and and self-centricity but of justice and reciprocity across the more-than-human world. Concern for time-scales not of election cycles but of the biome-based relationships we depend on and are increasingly responsible for. A circular economy.' (Introduction)
- Stick Insecti"lean in close", single work poetry (p. 58)
- The Graveside Leek Orchidi"as endangered as the memory", single work poetry (p. 59)
- Mounai"The women are walking, silent and single file,", single work poetry (p. 60-61)
- Woodland, Here on the Channel Shorei"Flints of light", single work poetry (p. 62-63)
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