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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... no. 20 April 2017 of Mascara Literary Review est. 2007 Mascara Literary Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Caught in the Rip, Karen Whitelaw , single work short story
By Proxy, Cassie Hamer , single work short story
On the Roof, Roland Leach , single work short story
Wet Towards the Waterfall, Laura McPhee-Browne , single work short story
Sinking Ship, Hasti Abbasi , single work short story
‘Between Trauma and Beauty Itself’: Mothers, Memory and Forgetting, J. T. Tait , single work autobiography
The Colour of Care, C.B. Mako , single work autobiography

CB Mako relates her experiences as a carer of colour who also has depression. She discusses her and her husband's strained relationship with their migrant community, and questions the tendency of more traditional disability coverage to avoid the narratives of people of colour.
Alice Allan Reviews Writing to the Wire Edited by Dan Disney and Kit Kelen, Alice Allan , single work essay
— Review of Writing to the Wire 2016 anthology poetry ;
'To live on the Australian continent is to be aware of the people who are excluded from it—those who are currently incarcerated in places coolly dubbed ‘detention centres’. Writing to the Wire, edited by Dan Disney and Kit Kelen, presents the work of poets grappling with this reality alongside that of poets actually living it.' (Introduction)
Exhibits of the Sun by Stephen Edgar, David Gilbey , single work essay
— Review of Exhibits of the Sun Stephen Edgar , 2014 selected work poetry ;
'Edgar’s poetry is like that – detailed, deceptive, minutely crafted, significant and changing – implicating both the watcher and the watched. In Sarah Howe’s ‘Two Systems’ lecture at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute last year, speaking of her own poetry’s slippage between different cultural and historical referents, she cited Heather McHugh’s dictum ‘All poetry is fragment … shaped by its breakages at every turn.’ Edgar’s is like that too: shardish, provisional, ‘hispid’ (to poach one of his clever, obscure words).' (Introduction)
Dimitra Harvey Reviews Fragments by Antigone Kefala, Dimitra Harvey , single work essay
— Review of Fragments Antigone Kefala , 2016 selected work poetry ;

'Stark, radiant imagery; lean punctuation; the slightly disorienting effect of the syntax; an imaginative vision of sensuous waking life enmeshed in subterranean realms of memory and dream, struck me on my first encounter with Australian poet Antigone Kefala’s work: an English-Greek bilingual edition I stumbled across several years ago containing selections from each of her then published collections, The Alien (1973), Thirsty Weather (1978), European Notebook (1988), and Absence(1992). Fragments (2016) represents Kefala’s first collection of new poems in more than twenty years. Like those earlier collections, Fragments effects Banksy’s famous maxim, that ‘art should…disturb the comfortable’.' (Introduction)
Geoff Page Reviews Bull Days by Tina Giannoukos, Geoff Page , single work essay
— Review of Bull Days Tina Giannoukos , 2016 selected work poetry ;
'Tina Giannoukos’s first book, In a Bigger City (Five Islands Press 2005), was a highly evocative and rather unsparing portrait of Melbourne at the time. The observations were close and clear-eyed, the tone generally colloquial. There was also a considerable social range in the poems though many of the protagonists seemed to be somewhat down on their luck.' (Introduction)
Geoff Page Reviews The Blue Decodes by Cassie Lewis, Geoff Page , single work essay
— Review of The Blue Decodes Cassie Lewis , 2016 selected work poetry ;
'The Blue Decodes is the latest collection in a now considerable list from Grand Parade Poets, going back to 2011. It’s a diverse stable ranging from young avant-gardists (such as the late Benjamin Frater) through to Selected Poems from well-established, but somewhat neglected, senior poets such as Evan Jones.' (Introduction)
Gay Lynch Reviews A Chinese Affair by Isabelle Li, Gay Lynch , single work essay
— Review of A Chinese Affair Isabelle Li , 2016 selected work short story ;
'In 2016, I met short story writer and poetry translator Isabelle Li at the inaugural Australian Short Story Festival in Perth. In conversation she conveys a graceful attentiveness. She tells me that she values the Chinese artistic tradition of training and craftsmanship and hopes her debut collection of stories will appeal to a broad readership.' (Introduction)
Stacey Trick Reviews Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh, Stacey Trick , single work essay
— Review of Portable Curiosities Julie Koh , 2016 selected work short story ;
'The short story form, historically, has been regarded as a literary art form in its own right that often creatively explores the zeitgeist of a particular time and the psyche of the human condition. Throughout history, celebrated writers have often influenced a fixed supposition in their reader’s imaginations. When we think of Ernest Hemingway, the trials and tribulations of being a poor writer and expatriate during war times particularly in Paris comes to the forefront of our minds. To think of Arthur Conan Doyle evokes, at once, impressions of Sherlock Holmes solving mysteries in the bustling streets of London during the Victorian and Edwardian periods, between about 1880 to 1914. And certainly, when Edgar Allan Poe comes to mind, impressions of macabre and mystery influenced by the darkest corners of the human psyche are often explored in the most extreme and grisly circumstances.' (Introduction)
Jocelyn Hungerford Reviews The Long Run by Catriona Menzies-Pike, Jocelyn Hungerford , single work essay
— Review of The Long Run Catriona Menzies-Pike , 2016 single work autobiography ;
'It begins with a huge loss. When Catriona Menzies-Pike was just twenty, she came home from a bushwalk to find that the unthinkable had happened: both her parents had died in a plane crash. How does someone even start to take in, let alone cope with, something like that: ‘this prospect that was just too gigantic to credit’?' (Introduction)
Vivienne Glance Reviews The Historian’s Daughter by Rashida Murphy, Vivienne Glance , single work essay
— Review of The Historian's Daughter Rashida Murphy , 2016 single work novel ;
'Set in India, Iran and Australia, and spanning several decades, The Historian’s Daughter tackles personal and political trauma through the eyes of Hannah, a young Anglo-Indian girl. Hannah, her sister, Gloria, and their two brothers, love their gentle, caring mother, Farah. She cooks delicious food, and heals their hurts and sickness with herbal medicines, earning her the moniker, the ‘Magician’. Iranian-born Farah calmly tries to protect her children from Gordon, their ill-tempered, unpredictable and abusive father – the ‘Historian’ of the book’s title. The Historian’s aberrant behaviour includes womanising, drinking and locking his so-called ‘mad’ sister, Rani, in the attic. His sanctuary is his library, which is full of books about famous English men, including a series titled The English Conquistadors of India, along with his own father’s diaries. These books are a secret source of fascination for Hannah as she tries to understand herself and her family.' (Introduction)
Jonathon Dunk Reviews Derrida’s Breakfast by David Brooks, Jonathan Dunk , single work essay
'This slender but wide-ranging collection of essays approaches the question of the animal from a number of complimentary and dialectic angles. Conceived through different paradigms and contexts a figure of the animal emerges in philosophy and poetics functioning as a liminal mechanism, a boundary stone constructed to police the edges of the structures and systems of the human image. The historical force of this translation of animal being is such that its ethically obvious and urgent problematics are stymied by the aporetic tensions implicated in any rethinking of the animals we are and are not.' (Introduction)
Nadia Niaz Reviews The Herring Lass by Michelle Cahill, Nadia Niaz , single work essay
— Review of The Herring Lass Michelle Cahill , 2016 selected work poetry ;
'In a 2011 interview with the Goethe Institut Australia, Michelle Cahill spoke of how her work explores an ‘imaginary habitation in many places’. The Herring Lass is the latest phase of this exploration, demonstrating Cahill’s ability to move and connect repeatedly across massive distances.' (Introduction)
Carol Jenkins Reviews Getting By Not Fitting In by Les Wicks, Carol Jenkins , single work essay
— Review of Getting By Not Fitting In Les Wicks , 2016 selected work poetry ;
'Getting By Not Fitting In is Les Wick’s thirteenth book. As someone who has arrived at poetry latish, thirteen seems a lot of books. What would one have left to say? Plenty it seems. I came to Getting By Not Fitting In, after reading Sea of Heartbreak (Unexpected Resilience)(Puncher & Wattmann, —a good place for readers new to Wick’s work start. Getting By Not Fitting In (GBNFI) possesses the same Wickensian kaleidoscopic concision, wit and dexterity as Sea of Heartbreak. There is something Ginsberg-esque about Wick’s range and anti-hero stance, his keen eye for the cultural milieu, we have the Golden Age of Sydney Pub Music instead of The Beats, but without Ginsberg’s grandiosity and neurotica.' (Introduction)
Luke Fischer’s Launch of Have Been and Are by Brook Emery, Luke Fischer , single work essay
'Welcome everyone. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Luke Fischer. I’m a poet and philosopher, and this afternoon I have the great pleasure and honour of launching Brook Emery’s splendid new book of poems, his fifth collection have been and are, published by the new Melbourne press Gloria SMH. Jacinta Le Plastrier, whom many of you would also know as the current director of Australian Poetry and who formerly worked at John Leonard Press, is the publisher and co-founder of Gloria SMH. At the outset I’d like to congratulate Jacinta and her colleagues on the beautiful production and design of this book.' (Introduction)
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