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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
W. Somerset Maugham by E.P. Lande
Forging an identity by Ian Douglas Robertson
The Last Laugh by Paul Murgatroyd
Dismantling the Tree by Stephen Mead
Contents
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[Review] Anamnesis,
single work
review
— Review of Anamnesis 2022 selected work poetry ;'Fiction is fantasy – or, at least, popular fiction is preoccupied with the fantastical. Wish fulfilment. A life less ordinary. Some sort of magic to free us from the prison of the mundane. A shape-shifting wizard/cat with markings mimicking her spectacles. The announcement of a new and exciting identity for the first-person hero – I, me, myself – a being somehow cognate with the reader who experiences life vicariously through the authorial magic trick of vivifying a fictitious character. Hey, presto: “You’re a wizard, Harry!”' (Introduction)
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[Review] Seams of Repair,
single work
review
— Review of Seams of Repair 2023 selected work poetry ;'Seams of Repair is a captivating collection of lineated poetry and prose poetry that write into ‘the lacuna that grief brings’ (‘Residue’). Dedicated to Stephanie Green’s grandmother, ‘who understood why words matter’, Seams of Repair provides a lyrical lexicon of intimacies, giving priority to the demotic and quotidian in impressive moments of sehnsucht. The collection’s focus on the interplay and unfolding of language demonstrates Green’s passion for quiet nuance and striking visual imagery in stark expressions of desire and absence. ' (Introduction)
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[Review] She Doesn’t Seem Autistic,
single work
review
— Review of She Doesn't Seem Autistic 2023 selected work poetry ;'Tasmanian poet Esther Ottaway’s latest collection is brave, experimental and brimming with power and artistry. Her poems reveal the truth of her own autistic experience but also the embodied experiences of a multitude of undiagnosed women and girls who are neurodivergent.' (Introduction)
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[Review] Text Messages from the Universe,
single work
review
— Review of Text Messages from the Universe 2023 selected work poetry ;'Australian poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker, Richard James Allen’s most recent work transports the reader through a disorienting and disturbing but also fascinating afterlife encounter.' (Introduction)
- Leaving and Leaving and Leaving, single work essay
- Animai"You come to me like silver scale on the stems of a rose bush,", single work poetry
- Aristotle’s Lanternsi"Aristotle the observer", single work poetry
- Blue Treesi"This is a landscape sick of its relation to Thunderbolt,", single work poetry
- Cranei"Beyond mechanical,", single work poetry
- Jock Macleod in Conversation with Rosanna E. Licari, Jock Macleod (interviewer), single work interview
- Phil Brown in Conversation with Rosanna E. Licari, Phil Brown (interviewer), single work interview
- Embedded, in Placei"The days have a hazy brightness to them", single work poetry
- Emperor Gum Mothi"The last time I felt and held Emperor Gum moths", single work poetry
- Fingers Blood-Redi"taste darkened flesh where air circles sunlight", single work poetry
- Frost Floweri"It becomes clear after", single work poetry
- Helter-skelteri"Feet – alive-o!", single work poetry
- Inflectionsi"myocardial infarction", single work poetry
- Kyoto Crow Triptychi"Blacker than basalt", single work poetry
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Kyoto Maple Haikui"Striking the timber",
single work
poetry
This haiku is in four numbered parts.
- Not Too Close to the Edgei"under granite sky", single work poetry