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Alternative title: Going Down Swinging Digital Edition
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... no. 34 2013 of Going Down Swinging est. 1980-1994 Going Down Swinging
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This issue is digitally produced and is available online only.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Editorial, Vanessa Hughes , single work essay
Charley Plays a Tune, Michael Lee Johnson , single work poetry
The Real Cambodia, Laura Jean McKay , single work short story
Bandtown, Zoë Norton Lodge , single work short story
Gingerbread Lady, Michael Lee Johnson , single work poetry
The Suiti"What it is and precisely", Jillian Pattinson , single work poetry
In the Jing, Sarah Stanton , single work poetry
The Lost Journals of Pedro Piscator Surveying the Silent Recesses of History, Lachlan Plain , single work prose
Portraits For Your Ears, Emma De Campo , single work prose
A Piss-Poor Chain of Hotels, Jean Thornton , Peter Dunn , B. N. Oakman , sequence poetry short story
On the Row, Jean Thornton , single work short story
St James, Peter Dunn , single work prose
Deadlinei"Curtain’s up at 6pm – deadline in the Lone Star State.", B. N. Oakman , single work poetry
Rod-Stroked Survival with a Deadly Hammer, Michael Lee Johnson , single work poetry
This is Howi"This is how cities are built empires made. Things done and undone and", Allison Browning , single work poetry
Shame on a Wigga, Kieron Byatt , single work essay

'I knew it would be one of my last rap battles, so my girlfriend invited a friend from university to see me in action. I could sense Anna’s apprehension. She wasn’t a hip-hop fan, saying she despised its homophobia and sexism. The match was a two-on-two written battle – a set-up where the rappers prepare material and research their opponents. It’s basically debating, with more “fucked your mum” jokes. There were the usual insults to start off, but in the second round our opponents zeroed in on my tertiary studies. They compared their lives selling drugs to mine studying and writing, saying that I would finish uni with a useless piece of paper and a debt while they were banking money tax free. The crowd roared and cheered. Of course the diss didn’t bother me – this was a rap battle – but afterwards I realised who its real victim was. Anna was shaken. How could that whole crowd think that having a degree was a bad thing?' (Introduction)

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Editorial Vanessa Hughes , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 34 2013;
Editorial Vanessa Hughes , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 34 2013;
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