AustLit
Alternative title:
The Australian Literary Magazine
Issue Details:
First known date:
1987...
19-20 December
1987
of
The Australian Literary Magazine
est. 1985
The Australian Literary Quarterly
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- A Powerful and Mysterious Thing, single work short story (p. 1-2)
- Celestial Bodies, extract autobiography (p. 2)
- The Magic 'If', single work short story (p. 2)
- A Case of Mistaken Identity, single work short story humour (p. 2)
- Fokker Friendship, single work short story (p. 2)
- Baron von Mueller Speaks Through His Gardensi"Palms, Moreton Bay Figs - yes, of course.", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Among Pigeons, single work short story (p. 3)
-
An Academic
Sometime Academici"The gown became him and the mortar-board",
single work
poetry
(p. 3)
Note: With title: An Academic
- Going Bush, single work short story (p. 4)
- Eating the Suni"Autumn, Easter. And I am bone weary.", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Godsi"Gods are glass.", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Taxonomistsi"I had this book.", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Time Marches On and I Wish It Wouldn't, single work column (p. 5)
- To Minnie Mousei"a red bow!", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Innocence, single work short story (p. 6)
- Len the Quakeri"That dry rasping thrust", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Tunnel Vision, single work autobiography (p. 7)
-
To the Islands Today,
single work
autobiography
(p. 7)
The author describes a childhood trip down Moreton Bay on a government supply ship. They stop at two islands, one of which is Peel, a leper colony; the other is Dunwich, home to a few Aboriginal people. The narrator recalls her family's casually racist remarks, which she accepted as a child but which now perturbs her.
- Boys and Gates and Ford V8'si"The old ford ute had seen better days", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Accident Victimi"We delivered him upside down and head first", single work poetry (p. 8)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 12 Apr 2003 11:55:10
Export this record
