We publish quality short stories, poetry, extracts from forthcoming novels, and articles and essays on topics of social, environmental and cultural significance.ISSUE NO. 115
SUMMER 2008
EDITORIAL
Gina MercerCONVERSATION
The Arabesques of Paradox – Robert Dessaix and Danielle Wood
MEMOIR
Nursery Rhymes and Falling Stars – Peter Skrzynecki
ESSAYS
Random Provocations – Patti Miller
Coming Clean: Tensions between Fact and Fiction in
Autobiography – Elisabeth HanscombeREVIEWS
Poetry Survey – Rebecca Edwards
Fiction – Maria Simms
Fiction – Kevin Gillam
Nonfiction – Andy Wildman
Nonfiction – Judith RodriguezPOETRY
Liam – Judith Beveridge
Weather Break – Chris Andrews
Poem at High Noon – Iain Britton
Waihola Men – Norah Dempster
Heart of Flame – Christina Conrad
A Place the Sea Knows – John Millett
Non-Correspondence – Adrian Caesar
Unmaking the Inventory – John Carey
Happiness – Sue King-Smith
Texture – Michael Farrell
On Entering the City of Possibilities – Jane Williams
The Graves at Saint-Roman – Mark O’Flynn
Happy Hour at the Davis – Niobe Syme
The Chilean Oyster – Kate Llewellyn
Reading John Morrison – Bruce DaweFICTION
Senior Stalker – Melissa Ferguson
Jam’s Credentials – Graeme Kinross-Smith
Transgression – Alex Skovron
Toast – Siall Waterbright
Patience from the Parakeet – Gretta Beveridge
The Sweet Fruits of Revenge – Stephen Faulds
Drift – Susie Greenhill
The Foxhole – Helen Verity Hewitt
Strawberry Malted – Jane Price
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