'Issue 157 kicks off our 40th anniversary year. That’s a big milestone for a small, not-for-profit organisation. But rather than congratulating ourselves, we’d like to congratulate you. We couldn’t have got this far without you. Thank you for helping keep the Island journey alive.
'In this issue, we celebrate Island’s vision - of speaking both from and to the local, the national and the global - by reflecting on journeys, on the relationship between home and away, on the distinctiveness of place, and on islands near and far. There are new worlds to discover in every poem, every story, every page. As you explore between the covers of this issue, we hope you can carve out a little space and time to see the world differently.' (Publication summary)
Epigraph: But never before had I heard of an island of clouds, an island so flat that ships might come upon it without knowing and run aground for no apparent reason, the explorers confronted by a place of unknown size. An island of sand across which the sky rolled and broke apart, lifted and sank, a place crowded with invisible spirits whose singing might one moment fill the air and then be gone. -Rodney Hall, The Island in the Mind (1996)
Only literary material by Australian authors and within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Her Jungle Owlet and My Velvet by Pascale Petit
How Global Thinking Really Works by Sharon Rider
The Power of Voice by Peter Choraziak
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