We publish quality short stories, poetry, extracts from forthcoming novels, and articles and essays on topics of social, environmental and cultural significance.ISSUE NO. 119
Summer 2009/2010
EDITORIAL
Gina MercerESSAYS
Writing for My Life – Anne Layton-Bennett
In a Small Patch of Jungle – Belinda Campbell
Blue Nation – Peter Shepherd
How to Read a Bike – Peter Kay
A Brief History of the Yemeni Jews – Andrew Madigan
REVIEWS
Poetry – Judith Beveridge
Poetry – Margaret Finney
Fiction – Anne Morgan
Fiction – Pam Allen
POETRY
First Rain – Aidan Coleman
Pegs – Aidan Coleman
Poet’s Journal – Prithvi Varatharajan
Breath – Andy Jackson
Lavender – Cameron Lowe
Accepting Pandora’s Box or the Chinese Poem – Sarah Fitt
On the Innocence of Clouds - Peter Lach-Newinksy
The Lion – Kathryn Lomer
Koans – Shane McAuley
Bogong Moth – Joe Dolce
The Fear – Chris Mansell
The Missionary Returns to Milingimbi – Dael Allison
The Vanished Villages – Paul Hetherington
Whaling Song – Nathan Curnow
Equilibrium – Brendan Ryan
Drinking Coffee with Mandelstam – Andy Kissane
Hanging out with Atticus Finch – Andy Kissane
On Being Fifty – Roland Leach
FICTION
The Sea Lovers – Jessica White
The Little Kingfisher – Favel Parrett
Starman – Sharyn Munro
Amber – Eva Lomski
Loss Recurring – Smiljana Glisovic
A Short History of the Boy – Moreno Giovannoni
The Winner – Lynley Hocking
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