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'This issue includes the winning and shortlisted entries from this year’s Island Nonfiction Prize. These essays thoughtfully explore our relationships with art, illness, sexuality and nature in compelling and beautiful writing.
'Island 165 is also packed with excellent new poetry and fiction that will startle, captivate, inspire and move you. You’ll even be intrigued by a story told through receipts, internet searches and playlists!
'Along with features on three wonderful painters, we bring you a taste of a large, timely artistic project: water[shed], in which 50 artists respond to the 50th anniversary of the inundation of Tasmania’s jewel-like original Lake Pedder. Enjoy' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Uncanny by Megan Walch
Displacement, Repair and the Painted Collage by Jo Chew
All We Have is Right Now by Celeste Chandler
Water[Shed] : 50 Years - 50 Artists
Contents
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Selfish Ghosts,
single work
essay
(p. 6-9)'It's 1978-79 and in an abandoned warehouse in New York City, at a diner slightly out-of-focus, on a crowded subway pistoling through Brooklyn, seen pissing in a toilet in a dilapidated cubicle is Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud's in Coney Island and at the Hudson River sex piers. He's shooting up heroin. He is masturbating. He is pointing at Jesus graffitied on a wall. He is holding a gun to his head. Says multi-form visual artist David Wojnarowicz of the more than 200 photographs he took of his friends - and possibly himself - wearing a cut-out photocopied Rimbaud mask, 'I had Rimbaud come through a vague biographic& outline of what my past had been—the places I had hung out in as a kid, the places I starved in or haunted on sonic level.'
- Nights and Worksi"I was before a window at a desk, I was a body at a desk before a window", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Ziggy, single work short story (p. 12-19)
- Targa Florioi"So we're racing around - It's the Targa Florio", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Approaching Zeroi"There are the same number of bones", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Sudden, Temporary Deaths, single work essay (p. 22-27)
- Accident and Emergency, single work short story (p. 36-39)
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Wingsets and Snowdrifts : A Subantarctic Year,
single work
essay
(p. 40-44)'It's late December, and the subantarctic summer stretches out the daylight hours. On the slopes of the escarpment where the light-mantled albatross nest, egg hatching is imminent.' (Introduction)
- The Swimmer, single work short story (p. 46-48)
- My 405i"noise you don't anticipate", single work poetry (p. 56)
- Lilac and Gooseberriesi"I love you as a sister lures her younger sister to the", single work poetry (p. 57)
- The Test, single work short story (p. 58-60)
- Colloidal Goldi"Today I went swimming in the colloidal gold of", single work poetry (p. 62)
- Foreshorei"A pair of pigeons tells the weather,", single work poetry (p. 63)
- Hand Held, single work short story (p. 64-67)
- Your Shadei"They don't make the lipstick", single work poetry (p. 68)
- Daughtersi"Some people's daughters are fifteen, though only last week", single work poetry (p. 69)
- The Long Daylight, single work essay (p. 70-75)
- Amanuensis, single work prose (p. 83)
- The Evocation of Angelica XI, single work short story (p. 84-90)
