CONTENTS
In this issue:
A TRIBUTE – MARGARET SCOTT 5
GUEST EDITORIAL - Elaine van Kempen 7
ESSAYS
A Song of Water – Eric Rolls 9
Burke and Wills Would Quake in their Boots – Tim Bonyhady 17
Myths of the Wheatbelt – John Kinsella 24
WILDCARE TASMANIA NATURE WRITING PRIZE
Absolutely Worth Saving: Finding a Place For Nature Writing – Peter Grant 41
Days of Christmas – Mark Tredinnick 46
Portrait of a Wild Pool – Dael Allison 59
Cave, Skin, Water – Adrienne Eberhard 71
REVIEWS
Nonfiction – Peter Pierce 76
Fiction – Rosie Waitt 78
Nonfiction – Jan Borrie 80
Anthology – Cameron Hindrum 82
Poetry – Andrea Breen 84
Creative Writing – Andrew Peek 88
POETRY
- Down Our Street – Kevin Murray 92
- Heart to Heart – Kathryn Lomer 93
- Serine – Peter Minter 96
- April Dusk – Diane Fahey 98
- Three Magpies – Jeff Guess 99
- Late Afternoon Light, Hahndorf – Jeff Guess 100
- My Twelfth Summer – Cath Perazzo 101
- Telegram Boys – Saxby Pridmore 102
- The Impudence of Man – Geoff Page 103
- Famished Verb – Carol Jenkins 105
- Midnight on the Isola Tiburina – Shane McCauley 106
- Saturday Morning, Trastevere – Shane McCauley 107
- Wellington Range – Karen Knight 108
- Instructions to Horsemen, Krakow, Poland, 1241 – Peter Bakowksi 110
- Sometimes Words Are Not Enough – Liz Winfield 111
- On the Funeral of Fourteen Carbinieri, Killed in Assyria, Iraq – Anthony Lawrence 112
- Lighthouse – Anthony Lawrence 113
FICTION
- The Dam – Zenda Vecchio 114
- Corners – Alison Campbell Rate 121
- Letter to a Silent Son – Morris Lurie 127
- Blackdrifts – Simon Groth 131
- The Favourite – Paul Mitchell 140
- Signs I Don’t Understand – Vivienne Ulman 147
- The Ha-Ha – Vanessa Russell 154
- The Art of Courting – Irma Gold 160
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