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'Island’s long, rich history and the legacy of its previous editors are at my shoulder as I send this, my first issue as Managing Editor, to print. Hundreds of hopeful writers submit to every issue of Island but there is space for only a handful in the magazine. As outgoing Nonfiction Editor Anna-Spargo Ryan says, the ones you read here are the ones that set us alight; the ‘rare and rich treasures ... that can speak of this moment’ (thank you, Judith Abell). This is Australia thinking about how colonialism plays out here and abroad, about past and future bushfires, about safety and bravery, about today’s children and the world they’ll grow up in. All of it is about why words matter, about why literature matters, about how we imagine and change the world through writing and storytelling. Thank you to everyone who offered us your work, and thank you for reading.' (Editorial introduction)
— Jane Rawson, Managing Editor
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed.
Contents
- Quiet at Schooli"Desire pangs in an antelope with a hardened back", single work poetry (p. 5)
- A Major Theft, single work short story (p. 6-12)
- Hidden Histories (& Acts of Disappearance), single work prose (p. 14-18)
- Lullabyi"Sleep, small plum. Keep breathing", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Birdhouse, single work short story (p. 20-23)
- Fox Shadowi"In the clumps of dark trees near street-", single work poetry (p. 24)
- The Perfect Human, single work graphic novel (p. 25-32)
- Throwing Stonesi"The sky / full of omens", single work poetry (p. 33)
- The Last Ever Comic to Be Published in a Literary Magazine...Ever, single work graphic novel (p. 34-37)
- Ringstrakedi"benthic sky black-blue", single work poetry (p. 44)
- Registersi"the dirt settles down", single work poetry (p. 45)
- Airtight, single work short story (p. 54-59)
- [Perhaps It Is like the Woman Who]i"Perhaps it is like the woman who", single work poetry (p. 60)
- Walking with the Poeti"We came to the jetty at dusk to watch the stingrays glide", single work poetry (p. 61)
- The Ommaya Embankmenti"From the sombre western bank of the Sumidagawa", single work poetry (p. 62)
- To Call the Dogs, single work prose (p. 63-69)
- The Thermonauts, single work short story (p. 72-75)
- Airbornei"small talk makes a U-turn", single work poetry (p. 78)
- Touch Free Washi"An un-beautiful place looked at differently, luminant in neon and the feeling", single work poetry (p. 79)
- In the Valley, single work essay (p. 86-93)
