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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 8 September 2020 of StylusLit est. 2017 StylusLit
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Notes

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

    Psychic Reading by Paul Bluestein

    Calm, Encounters in the Dark and Magic by Tasos Leivaditis

    Cherry Blossom (and other letters from lockdown) by Emily Barker

    Elsewhere by Fardowsa Mohamed 

    The Present-Tense Lack Genius by Willaim Doreski

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Mark Tredinnick in Conversation with Rosanna Licari, Rosanna Licari (interviewer), single work interview
A Kinder Sea By Felicity Plunkett, Alison Clifton , single work review
— Review of A Kinder Sea Felicity Plunkett , 2020 selected work poetry ;

'Felicity Plunkett’s latest collection, A Kinder Sea, renders navigable the ocean of urgent emotions on which a poet floats her many loves and only life. Here, the sea is fluid in its identity – pun intended – as it is at once a sanctuary and a taker of lives, preserving and whittling-away at relics of existence. Sometimes elegiac in nature, these poems are warmly intimate. Yet, in Plunkett’s deft hands, the verse does not succumb to solipsism: she evokes a sense of universal experience as she occasionally samples lines from other writers, including Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Paul Celan, and Ali Smith. The effect is at once fresh and emulatory. The borrowed lines are given new life with Plunkett’s pen – or, to use the words of her poem, “Sound Bridge” (1-2), these are the “same notes in new throats” (2). Plunkett’s poetry offers up prayers, wishes, and promises for the future even as it preserves the past in a way that is less nostalgic or forensic than it is physiological.' (Introduction)

A Synonym for Sobriety By Ben Adams, Alison Clifton , single work review
— Review of A Synonym for Sobriety Ben Adams , 2019 selected work poetry ;

'Ben Adams’ “a synonym for sobriety” is a recent offering from Friendly Street Poets, who have been enlivening the Adelaide poetry scene since 1975, making them Australia’s longest running community open mic, poetry reading, and publishing group.' (Introduction)

Ask Me About The Future By Rebecca Jessen, Alison Clifton , single work review
— Review of Ask Me About the Future Rebecca Jessen , 2020 selected work poetry ;

'Rebecca Jessen’s debut collection of poetry, Ask Me About the Future, shows this important poet developing an assured voice six years on from the publication of her award-winning verse novel, Gap (2014). Jessen’s is a vital voice in the queersphere. This collection explores the experience of a young gay woman in poignant detail, and there is also a sequence of poems on the birth of her sister’s child which is different in feel: sparser and somehow more organic.' (Introduction)

Birth Plan By L.K.Holt, Alison Clifton , single work review
— Review of Birth Plan L. K. Holt , 2019 selected work poetry ;

'L.K. Holt’s fourth full-length collection of poetry, Birth Plan, is impressive. If the reader could somehow dive into a gold mine and swim through the layered seams of potential meaning, then that might come close to describing the rich experience of reading Holt’s poetry. This is challenging writing – most readers will require the Oxford English Dictionary on hand to look up some of the more obscure words used – and Holt makes no effort to cosset or cosy up to the reader. This is true both of her use of a precise and formidably vast vocabulary and of her direct approach to sometimes unsettling themes and content.' (Introduction)

Lone Wolf, Luke Evans , single work short story
The Space Behind The Masks, Peter Murphy , single work short story
Trading Name Changed, Rodney Williams , single work short story
You Could Make This Beautiful, Natasha Rai , single work short story
A Poet’s Dayi"Mid-morning sun is thawing the edges of cold.", Anne Collins , single work poetry
Black Swan Momenti"The proposition was all swans were white,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry
Cocktaili"Negroni in cut glass –", Julie Manning , single work poetry
Dry Runi"tall grasses crowd the ditch", Brenda Saunders , single work poetry
Late Light with Whitefaced Heronsi"As I sat beside the rough-", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry
On That Morningi"i was being/ ready/ ready being one parent/ i was being sensible sister/ being a", Elanna Herbert , single work poetry
Silent Approach, Nathan Shepherdson , single work poetry
Stepping Outi"She steps out of her shoes, discards them", Lyn Reeves , single work poetry
Stilli"Still the moon, grown old, falls and trails its passing on the water", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry

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