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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... no. 21 December 2017 of Mascara Literary Review est. 2007 Mascara Literary Review
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'Over the years Mascara has published writers of distinction who cross genre and culture boundaries often with unique affinities. We have also been tasked to advocate for the cultural interests and cultural access of non-white writers in Australia. In 2012, we approached The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne requesting that they establish a special prize or a fellowship for migrant or refugee literature since the lack of such encouragement, particularly for non-European migrants, is glaringly apparent. Conversations ensued with sporadic enthusiasm but were not followed up. Ultimately, our correspondence was dismissed by the bureaucracy of that powerful institution.' (Michelle Cahill , Editorial introduction)

Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    Poems by Roisin Kelly, Cameron Morse, and Rebecca Vedavathy.

    Martin Edmond reviews Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young

    Rose Hunter reviews Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórquez & Alí Calderón translated by Mario Licón Cabrera

    Hayley Scrivenor reviews Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Hoarder’s Resti"It’s been years, though here I am,", Luke Best , single work poetry
At the Dumping Groundi"Wind angers the bough", Luke Best , single work poetry
Family Portraiti"In their best Flemish clothes –", Rose Lucas , single work poetry
From Mallaigi"Heaving out from the harbour,", Rose Lucas , single work poetry
The Copper Beechi"I lie you down, spread your branches wide as wings across the grass", Claire Potter , single work poetry
Three Steps Outside the TABi"Pale steps, concrete and absolute", Claire Potter , single work poetry
The Nursei"I often ask for the ending.", Robbie Coburn , single work poetry
The Colt’s Gravei"I stand at the paddock’s edge", Robbie Coburn , single work poetry
Almitra Amongst Ghosts, Rafeif Ismail , single work prose
The Journey Home, Sivashneel Sanjappa , single work short story
Another Country, Jessie Tu , single work prose

'As though it were a competition, as though you could measure love, put it on a scale, graph it, draw charts and predict growth or recession. Calculable. Everything was measurable. He felt the need to quantify things. Everything had currency, as long as you knew where to look, how to decipher it in numerical components. That was how he saw the world and the world saw it fit to bend to his will. After experiencing the grief of losing a relationship with a man I loved, I came to understand, albeit over several years, what my father meant by this. I understood that he wanted to save me from the hurt of loving, of being the doer, not the receiver. The operator, the labourer. The less worthy. The Iove-er.'  (Publication abstract)

No Dams, Kathy Sharpe , single work short story
My Familia and Other Pigs, Georgia Delgado Manuela , single work short story
Paternity Leave, Harold Legaspi , single work short story
Death of An Impala, Susan Hurley , single work short story
Flood, Michael Adams , single work short story
The Red Bucket, Cecily Niumeitolu , single work short story
Settling, Maris Depers , single work short story
In-Between, Heather Taylor Johnson , single work prose
Joseph Cummins Reviews Blindness and Rage : A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro, Joseph Cummins , single work essay

'Brian Castro’s eleventh work of fiction is a profoundly playful novel about life, death and authorship. Faced with a terminal diagnosis, Lucien Gracq contemplates the meaning and meaninglessness of life as a town planner. Given fifty-three days to live – this is an allusion to Georges Perec’s novel 53 Days, which he left incomplete at his death – Gracq decides to focus on finishing his epic poem, Paidia. He moves to Paris and there joins an absurdly shadowy society of misfit intellectuals. Who wouldn’t be intrigued by this?' (Introduction)

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