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'With writing, artwork and ideas from Charmaine Papertalk Green, Ouyang Yu, John Kinsella, Jumaana Abdu, Stephen Muecke, Andrew Sutherland, Brenda Saunders, DeWitt Henry, Michael Farrell, Wes Lee, Alan Fyfe, Gemma Nethercote Way, Luisa Mitchell, Bryant Apolonio, Kate North, Ellen Shelley, Sampurna Chattarji, Jo Langdon, Luoyang Chen, Julie Watts, Tiffany Ko, Christopher Konrad, Cass Lynch, Rachel Robertson, Helena Kadmos, Jo Pollitt, Coral Carter, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Petra White, Kathryn Hummel, Madeleine Dale and many others…' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Wearing the night by Wes Lee
Fluid Dynamics by Kate North
On Scars by DeWitt Henry
A Brief History of My Name by Kelvin Kellman
Day 6 by Sampurna Chattarji
Contents
- Flash up, Flare up, Sparkle, Coruscate, Glint, Gleam, Glimmer, Streak, Twinkle, and so oni"There is a danger, in poetry", single work poetry (p. 14-16)
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Labelled, I Became a Puppet Theatre of Protest,
single work
prose
(p. 17-28)I've decided to go back to performing with hand puppets. Whin I was eleven and twelve, the puppet theatre was a big thing for me. For my family in general. Encouraged by Mum, we made papier-mache heads and fabric costumes. I constructed the theatre with 'Auntie J' out of an old packing crate that has at one stage been an aviary breeding box. I wrote the scripts, and maybe others did too, but I can only remember my own. I wrote a lot of them. We each made puppets that expressed 'personalities', but not necessarily 'our own'. (Introduction)
- Wheat and Moon, single work prose (p. 30-32)
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A Gesture Towards Steam,
single work
prose
(p. 33-37)Written in response to the John Stringer Prize 2022
- Leaning In, single work prose (p. 38-46)
- All Ways Fire She Gives, single work prose (p. 47-49)
- Idiot Maths Vs the Natural Bridge, single work poetry (p. 50-51)
- The Disappearingi"Rufous Bettong", single work poetry (p. 52-53)
- Telephone Pole Shaped like a Crucifix Sundowni"We haven't stopped making crucifixions", single work poetry (p. 54)
- Autobiography of a Corridor, single work short story (p. 55-59)
- Ilgari Aba / Grandmother Skyi"Sweeping our universe with a", single work poetry (p. 61)
- Megafaunai"Range the pages, large as houses. A scale for each", single work poetry (p. 62-63)
- Ritualsi"Walk to the church. Kneel in a pew. Recite your death, recite", single work (p. 64)
- Honeyeater, single work short story (p. 65-70)
- History Is Dead People, single work prose (p. 71-78)
- Some People's Ghostsi"Last night it happened again. I was uneasy,", single work poetry (p. 79)
- Recoveryi"A bloodline of checkmarks appearing", single work poetry (p. 80-81)
- Did a Bloody Bear Take a Bath in Thati"an empty all the blessed water out", single work poetry (p. 82)
- The Thylacine on My Tea Toweli"itn't there all the time. he fades", single work poetry (p. 84)
- Parting Points, single work short story (p. 85-91)
