Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Kevin Higgins: 3 Poems
'Juno Gemes is a renowned photographer/writer and she has been a Co-Director of Paper Bark Press with Robert Adamson. She is currently working on a major publication Something Personal: Chronicles from The Movement 1975-2021 to be published in 2021.' (Introduction)
'Those of us who in childhood experience ourselves as outsiders discover a fascinating upside to this experience in discovering the freedom that position confirms: of seeing things differently.' (Introduction)
'This collection of poems by John Jenkins is broad, and deep and filled with feeling and wit. Expansive in vision of the human predicament, and various in form. There is evidence of travel and international lived experience; insight into global figures.' (Introduction)
'Statistically, half of your friends live with some kind of chronic condition, so when we look to art and pop-culture, why aren’t anomalous bodies depicted in their everydayness? Why aren’t there more common sense discussions about the ableist society in which we live? Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness is a tactile reaction to these questions.' (Introduction)
'In approaching a new collection of poetry, a reviewer hopes that a series of themes or poetic preoccupations will quickly emerge to give the necessary “hooks” for said reviewer to arrange some neat conclusions. With Infernal Topographies this task is not quite so simple or straightforward. In this third collection by Miles, clear themes and resolutions are not so apparent and often meanings are left dangling.' (Introduction)
'Antigone Kefala’s work spans decades; it is some of the most spare and eloquent writing about what it means to be a woman writer traversing the cultural institutions of writing and publishing in this country. This essay focuses on Fragments, her long awaited and much anticipated collection of poetry, almost twenty years in the writing, and published in 2016. As its title suggests, Fragments is replete with poems that address the fragmentation of human life, her own and others, across various physical and psychic landscapes that are themselves in the process of erosion. In representing the immediacy and specificity of everyday encounters, the poems succeed in metaphorically subjecting time – in the sense of the time of reading the poetry together with our aesthetic appreciation of its formal techniques – to both its suspension, and its decay.' (Introduction)
'It’s my honour to say a few words about Kevin’s In This Part of the World, which could be the very best part of the world to be in right now. So if you’re desperate to get out and about, I suggest you get into this book. It’s a world filled with parrots, finches, kingfishers, flamingos, and butcher birds with ‘ganged up shoulders that unshrug to wings’. There are possums, moths, trees of surrender, and two brown horses who are ‘hay dreaming souls clipping up the drive’.' (Introduction)
'Considerable work has gone into this wide-ranging anthology, which the editors describe as ” a representative and compelling selection … written by Australians since the 1970s… (and including) a generous selection of twenty-first-century prose poems.”' (Introduction)
