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'With the long hot Australian summer still burning fiercely here in Brisbane, it’s hard to think of this as the Autumn issue, but here we are. A few months ago, while reading submissions, I tweeted: “the skin as map / body as landscape metaphor feels very overdone”. Images came to mind of black-and-white cinema advertisements tracing a body’s contours in close-up, making them look like geographical formations in order to sell moisturiser (or something); or slightly more obscure references like lyrics from the song ‘Cardiac Atlas’ by June of 44: “he finds his way with a map of arteries / he makes camp just above your heart”. So yes, it felt overdone to me, but I was quickly forced to qualify this with another tweet: “but I’m reading a piece by someone who’s doing it well, so who cares?”' (Editorial introduction)
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Water Lily by American writer Douglas W. Milliken
Contents
- Some Days, single work prose (p. 5)
- Moederland : Part One : I’m Not From Around Here, single work short story (p. 6-9)
- Political Reflections : Part One : The Day Trump Won, single work prose (p. 10-13)
- The Need for Poetryi"is old, very old, though not venerable. Imagine", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Ethanol, Eschar, single work prose (p. 21-27)
- WWJDi"At the Cisco Travel Plaza Jesus", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Compass, single work short story (p. 29-33)
- Plum, Floweri"Four panels: rosewood,", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Shoes That Go Krtz-Krtz, single work short story (p. 35-42)
- Beach Roadi"months of a wintering brightness : rooms", single work poetry (p. 43)
- Great Expectations, single work short story (p. 44-49)
- Avid Readeri"At the book launch", single work poetry (p. 50)
- Running Away from the Circus, single work short story (p. 51-55)
- Spider, single work short story (p. 56-60)
- From ‘Autobiochemistry’i"A commercial grade caesium clock", single work poetry (p. 61-62)
- Our Mate, Cummo, single work short story (p. 63-67)
- “I Can Be Tight and Nervy as the Top String on a Violin”i"I know how she feels", single work poetry (p. 68)
- Venus, single work short story (p. 69-74)
- Last Posti"It goes on", single work poetry (p. 75)
- Fighting for Breath, single work short story (p. 76-80)
