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'Each issue of Island is a privilege to produce and is a testament to a community of talented creatives who can transform ideas into actions and onto the pages in front of you. In this issue, in addition to our usual complement of great new fiction, nonfiction, poetry and arts features, I’m delighted to see the first fruits emerging from two special projects curated by long-time Island advocates: ‘Island Conversations’ curated by Danielle Wood (see Danielle’s introduction on p96), and Island’s ‘Graphic Narratives’ project curated by Joshua Santospirito. Both projects will extend across the three print issues of 2023, so you can expect plenty more great writing and art in Island 167, 168 and 169. Consider taking out a subscription so that you can enjoy the journey with us. Sadly, this is Ben Walter’s last issue as our Fiction Editor. Ben has brought so much to the team, also having been our inaugural Online Editor and curating Island’s nature writing project. We will miss him.' (Editorial introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
taypani milaythina-tu : Return to Country by Jillian Mundy
Mavis Plays Piano by Eleri Mai Harris
A garden for the things you love by Nadia Refaei
Contents
- Sandcastles, single work short story (p. 4-7)
- Blue Wateri"the sky", single work poetry (p. 8)
- The Severancei"When I found you,", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Are You My Mother?, single work essay (p. 18-25)
- The Green Wedgei"I walk the river's slow edge", single work poetry (p. 26)
- The Things We Carry, single work essay (p. 36-43)
- The Life I Know, single work autobiography (p. 44-45)
- Pietai"We sit in the park", single work poetry (p. 46)
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Mountain Songsi"Every step we took",
single work
poetry
(p. 47)This poem is in five numbered parts.
- Fell, single work short story (p. 48-51)
- Magical Material Objects : Or What I Think about When I Hold My Old Concession Cards (1987-91), single work essay (p. 52-57)
- The Butterflyfish, single work short story (p. 58-61)
- Strange Places, single work short story (p. 62-66)
- What Can't Fly Away : A Requiemi"The avian dead on a beach, wings", single work poetry (p. 68)
- Stern Alarumsi"Events glue me", single work poetry (p. 69)
- The Lovelies, single work short story (p. 70-74)
- After Writing a Book on Female Autism, I Decide to Bury Iti"Go on with that public Esther, curated pretense:", single work poetry (p. 76)
- After Reading Her Poem, I Remember the Diagnosis They Give Mei"Monstrous, so I speak well, as distraction or defence", single work poetry (p. 77)
- Put Arm Here, single work short story (p. 78-81)
- How Do We Write of This?, single work essay (p. 82-85)
