'I know next to nothing about sport. At school competitions, I was the freckly redhead hiding in the shade with a string of green stars on her score sheet (green = ‘not good’, as in ‘last place’). I’d throw a shot-put a full arm’s length and my one attempt at javelin gave me a bruise on the back of my head. I was the kid who was picked last for a team, that kid who got winded by a flying softball, and who conjured fake periods to get out of swimming class.' (Editorial introduction)
Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Chinese Characters and Experimental Poetics : Reflections, New Directions by Li Lu
'Liberatore went into that last pack optimistically and came out misty optically' was how legendary AFL commentator Dennis Cometti once described an on-field misadventure that left Footscray scragger Tony Liberatore bleeding from above his eye. That's poetry.' (Introduction)
