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'A lot happened over the months we spent working on this issue, from November when we published our playful, hyperactive call-out, to now, the beginning of winter, a date that marks a shift in the year’s trajectory. It’s time to take a breath and then what …' (Emily Stewart and Eloise Grills : Editorial introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Portrait, Lyric, Code: Reading the Face Before and After Laura Riding Jackson’s Body’s Head by Tyne Daile
‘We’re masters at taking the way we speak and communicate’: L-FRESH The LION in Conversation with Simone Amelia Jordan
2 Nhã Thuyên Translations by Kaitlin Rees
6 Aya Mansour Translations by Haider Catan and Tim HeffernanEssay on being both the prey and their predators By Duy Quang Mai
Still Life by Hannah Brooks-Motl
Crossings by Sarah Penwarden
Brown Rivers by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Not a Salad by Sophie van Waardenberg
Tongue in Our Mouths by Emmanuel Lacadin
I Have Heard the Butcher's Words & Learned to Care by Hao Guang Tse
trinny and susannah by Brodie Fraser
Hard of Understanding by Duck Taylor
See Ya Later by Olive Owens
at the british museum, mawadah points at a stolen artifact by Jood AlThukair
Two Shadows by Christian Ryan Ram Malli
(The most terrible thing about being a poet is: The impulse to attach meaning to everything) by Eliana Gray
(When) a hard look at what’s holy (softens) by Amy A. Whitcomb
Negotiating with Ray White by Nicola Andrews
Lawnside Snake Hermeneutics by E. Jesse Capobianco
Acts of Kindness by Piet Nieuwland
Hormines by Madeleine Stack
17 Works by Sary Zananiri
Contents
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On Kinds of Aunts, Dorothy Porter’s Barbaroi and the Head of a Gorgon,
single work
essay
'It is a prejudice that I think we can already see in Herodotus that there is something prized but also irredeemable about a Gorgon’s head, and in particular Medusa’s mortal one, and it treads a narrow bridge between arrestingly beautiful (illustrations of which coalesce around neo-spiritual work) and grotesque (a few of these, but classically, Caravaggio). And though I recognise that the preceding references are already unwieldy it would be impossible not to mention, (in passing), the utility of the sublime which I think helps to bridge the slippages between gorgeous (I see now, close to Gorgon) and terrible, which are adjectives used (at times interchangeably) to convey the Medusa.' (Introduction)
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‘Thinking Is Not a Problem’ : Alice Allan Interviews Antonia Pont,
Alice Allan
(interviewer),
single work
interview
'Antonia Pont’s debut collection of poetry, You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel came out with the Rabbit Poets Series at the end of 2019. I went to her launch, where Antonia read in response to poems that her friends had written in reply to poems in her book. Antonia is one of those people writing poetry in Australia whom you may not have heard of – even though she’s been working at this craft for many years. Antonia is not only a poet, but an essayist, an educator of writing and literature at Deakin University, and a yoga teacher. Antonia founded her own yoga school in 2009 and is one of those people who has a very particular, very special, perspective on life. Antonia says things like: ‘you only want to lose your “self” once you’ve got one’. In this interview, Antonia speaks about the vicious momentum of trying. She also says things like: ‘writing needs a body that functions’. In describing how she spent time in the 2020 lockdowns, Antonia mentions steadiness laziness, pleasure, and kindness.' (Introduction)
- Yearn Malley, selected work poetry
- The End of My Public Lifei"I always thought beauty was important.", single work poetry
- Dream Journal No Editsi"Could have been a beach rat, sacralised", single work poetry
- Doing Meth with Laurai"General Prologue, Brain dump, every month is cruel,", single work poetry
- Paranoid Phantasyi"I want to suck your eye out, I say,", single work poetry
- I'm Loving Angelsi"A VISION OF FORCE whips velvet thru the afternoon.", single work poetry
- All Is Good in the Pigi"when the sky rose big and gold the first day unbelievable god said", single work poetry
- Epodei"I have to sleep. I know", single work poetry
- Nice Reprisali"The first position is despair;", single work poetry
- In the Middle of Analysisi"In the middle of the night", single work poetry
- Mangoes Aheadi"approaching the end of a relationship I find myself asking", single work poetry
- Wake up Ingrid Bergmani"when ingrid bergman gets to the table she walks around it seven times", single work poetry
- I Have Gone to Extraordinary Lengthsi"in the pursuit of—. [Whatever that means for", single work poetry
- Sticking My Face in the Blender Poemi"When the water in the vase of my flowers is become thick and rancid", single work poetry
- The Psychic Told Me I Was Going to Have a Good Yeari"On Instagram my friend announced she’s pregnant and has just bought a house. Meanwhile, I have to write", single work poetry
- Half a Conversation After the Dial Tonei"I learnt about potential and parallels on Twitter today –", single work poetry
- EBi"Elizabeth Bishop I want to be evocative. Dawn arrives like a dropped", single work poetry
- Yamaji Kin Songlinei"I am kin to the Bimarra creation line", single work poetry