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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
We Have a Voice : It's Not Listened To by Michael Mansell
The Unfinished Business of 1967 by Marilyn Lake
Still Fighting the Frontier Wars by Brian Burkett
Notes of an Anarrernte ‘Undecided’ by Celeste Liddle
Reflections on the Novorossiya War by Gray Connolly
Indian Rope Trick by Binoy Kampmark
Settler Nationalism and Progressive Discourse by Dan Tout
A Culture of Remembrance by Andreas Pohl
Gas Town, Darwin by Kirsty Howey
On the Climate Frontline by David Ritter
Words Like Small Birds by Michael Edwards
The Password is 'Sugar' by Humphrey McQueen
Ahmed Faraz, Poet of Love and Hope by Ali Shehzad Zaidi
Rubbing/Loving by Christian Caiconte
Fire in the Head? Richard King
The Universities and Israel by Mark Furlong
Contents
- The Aukward Situation, single work poetry (p. 18)
- Mushroomsi"It was not mine, the summer", single work poetry (p. 80)
- On Earthi"Cold father, cold brother", single work poetry (p. 80)
- A Song for My Granddaughteri"Sound throws down a hammer", single work poetry (p. 81)
- Fishi"That she was about to pull a line from the water,", single work poetry (p. 82)
- Lullabyi"She's rammed the bridge", single work poetry (p. 82)
- At Oyster Covei"There was a seal, killed by the old men up to their new tricks,", single work poetry (p. 83)
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The Elusiveness of Young Donald,
single work
review
— Review of Donald Horne : A Life in the Lucky Country 2023 single work biography ;(p. 84-87)'The bookshop in the Berlin high street was, like any bookshop in any Berlin high street, four or five times better and more comprehensive than its Anglo - sphere counterparts. The ‘Australian and New Zealand’ section was small compared to the large Asian section it appended, but it was there. Among a random selection of novels by novelists from Bryce Courtney to Gail Jones, a trio of Christos, and no poets I’d heard of was the in evitable, ugh, The Lucky Country . It was the section’s sole volume of social commentary aside from the inevitable Mutant Message Down Under , a reprint that was now itself fifteen years old. This was 2012. Had das buch buyers been able to find nothing more current to represent us than this—with, if memory serves, its Sidney Nolan cover—response to the Australia of Robert Menzies? Apparently not. Here we were amid the postmodern Kosovo poets and deluxe BDSM photo essay collections, permanently waiting to realise our potential, a ‘lucky country, of second rate men, who s hare its luck’.' (Introduction)
