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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 159 2020 of Island est. 1990- Island
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'This is the first issue put together by our refreshed editorial team of Anna Spargo-Ryan (nonfiction), Ben Walter (fiction), Lisa Gorton (poetry) and Judith Abell (art features). We are thrilled to have them on board. They bring such enthusiasm, energy and commitment to their task, and have delivered selections that are richly diverse and worthy.

' Here you’ll find poems about fires, bodies, art and violence – including some that recall the summer’s fires and others that resonate with the confinement of these isolated days. You’ll also find thoughtful essays about the arts in this time of crisis, but also about ideas as important now as ever, such as togetherness, curiosity, love and the deep solace to be found in nature. There’s fresh, funny, clever and shocking fiction here that will take you on a dizzying ride through far-flung hotel rooms (how distant they seem right now!), the comic drama of suburban renovations, the strange world of the workplace and the bizarre one of reality TV crime drama, the mysteries of childhood, and one of the darkest great-aunts you’ll ever meet. As always, our art features enrich the issue, and this time they coalesce around various sites and forms of tragedy and extinction – from Julie Gough’s Tense Past, to Lucienne Rickard’s Extinction Studies and Selena de Carvalho’s Beware of Imposters (the secret life of flowers) – all of them urging us to attend to what has been lost and what can yet be lost. We hope that these voices will inspire, entertain and comfort you in our uncertain and vulnerable times.' (https://islandmag.com/issue159)

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Contents

* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Another Kind of Winteri"White snow day", Anne Kellas , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Stingrays, Christine Kearney , single work short story (p. 20-21)
Ash in Sydneyi"ash is falling on the Lidcombe line", Jake Goetz , single work poetry (p. 24)
Pink Suni"you will be eternally", Toby Fitch , single work poetry (p. 25)
Thirty Piecesi"You hang, peerless, around the edges", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 40-41)
Ekphrasis - William Robinson, Passage of Light from the Sea at Numinbah, 2002i"You would like to think", Belinda J. Rule , single work poetry (p. 42)
Distorted Depictioni"Picasso says love is dangerous, like a house that's falling down.", Cassandra Atherton , single work poetry (p. 43)
Voyager Ii"The digits on the NASA site", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 52-53)
Into the Flames, Down to Our Shoes, Vienna, John Saul , single work short story (p. 54-57)
The Lever, the Pulley and the Screw, Andrew Roff , single work short story (p. 61)
The Tick Tock Killer, Alex Cothren , single work short story (p. 70)
Pulled Apart by Seahorsesi"Olive's, seven in the evening, the tomatoes suffused with Viognier", Gavin Yates , single work poetry (p. 76)
Sonnet 29i"'Bruce'? Unforgettable, but 'In Your Eyes'", Stuart Barnes , single work poetry (p. 77)
Sunlight / Dear Mumi"Dr Bentley let me take you out today. If you're careful not to", Graham Akhurst , single work poetry (p. 82)
Tendi"I could some days mistake for a flower", Jo Langdon , single work poetry (p. 83)
Starter Culture, Pip Smith , single work short story (p. 92)

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Works about this Work

Island Redivivus : An Invigorating Collision of Perspectives Rayne Allinson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 423 2020; (p. 67)

— Review of Island no. 159 2020 periodical issue
Island Redivivus : An Invigorating Collision of Perspectives Rayne Allinson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 423 2020; (p. 67)

— Review of Island no. 159 2020 periodical issue
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