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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... no. 26 April 1988 of Span est. 1975 Span
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Interview with Gwen Harwood, Anne Lear (interviewer), single work interview (p. 1-11)
Approaching Harbourtowni"Water-cirrus in the scudding breeze,", Andrew Sant , single work poetry (p. 12-14)
Sliprails and Spur : Courting Bush Sweethearts in Australian Nationalist Mythology, Sue Rowley , single work criticism
Discusses courtship, women and romance in nineteenth century Australian art and literature, particularly the works of Lawson, Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin.
 (p. 15-32)
Christina Stead : The Voyage to Cythera, Hazel Rowley , single work criticism
Discusses the motif of the wanderer or Nietzschean 'free spirit' in three of Stead's early novels where the image of the island of Cythera is invoked as the 'metaphoric goal of the quest'. Connects Stead's themes with similar preoccupations in the works of Brennan and Slessor.
 (p. 33-45)
The Call of the Mother in the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley, Joan Kirkby , single work criticism (p. 46-63)
Untitled, Dorothy Jones , single work review
— Review of An Ordinary Lunacy Jessica Anderson , 1963 single work novel ; (p. 107-108)
Untitled, Bernard Hickey , single work review
— Review of Julia Paradise Rod Jones , 1986 single work novel ; (p. 112-116)
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