CONTENTS
ESSAYS
On The Road to Plati – Gillian Bouras
Creative Conservation: Marching or Paddling? – Andrew Taylor
Mudflats and Migratory Birds – Margaret Somerville
The Perils of Free Verse – Mark O’Connor
Words for Grey – Bernadette HinceREVIEWS
Fiction – Giles Hugo
Poetry Survey – Oliver Dennis
Fiction – Ruth Blair
Nonfiction – Natasha CicaPOETRY
Poem without a Moon – Stuart Solman
Alone Among Others – Edith Speers
Rainy Day Market – Mike Ladd
Holiday – Kate Llewellyn
Poet’s Song 1 – Anne Kellas
Poet’s Song 2 – Anne Kellas
Interview 1 – Anne Kellas
Interview 2 – Anne Kellas
The Kingsbury Tales: the Artist at Wuzhen, Zhejiang – Ouyang Yu
Fog Topography – John Kinsella
Fog Dystopia – John Kinsella
The Tan – Michael Sariban
Object Lesson (Hansel to Gretel) – Kate Middleton
After (Gretel to Hansel) – Kate Middleton
For Tina – Shelley O’Reilly
Walking Around Venus – Jill Jones
35 Kooyong Road – Ashlley Morgan-Shae
Kodak Instantané – Christiane Conesa-Bostock
Meditations on Pain – Andrew Lansdown
Start with the Bones of the Ankles and Feet... – Simon Patton
Shot Tourists Do Not Make the Headlines Anymore
– David Lumsden
Fathers – Jennifer Harrison
Halfway through Whim – MTC Cronin
Great Mid-week Rats – MTC Cronin
Love Poem – Samuel Wagan WatsonFICTION
Waiting for Charlie – Andrea Sheffield
Extracts from ‘The Apocrypha of William O’Shaunessy’
– Peter Boyle
Thirty-Two Years – Bernadette Smith
A Bright Blue Future – Andy Kissane
Epilogue – Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
Ribbons – Susan Pyke
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