ISLAND n.96, AUTUMN 2004

In this issue:

Guest editorial — Greg Lehman

Articles

'Better to be Mistaken than to Deceive': the Fabrication of
Aboriginal History and the Van Diemonian Record — James Boyce

Truganini's Funeral — Andrys Onsman

Extracts

Cape Grimm — Carmel Bird
Steps to the Scaffold — Robert Cox

Reviews

Poetry Survey — Oliver Dennis
Music — Robin Ryan
Nonfiction — Heather Rose
J M Coetzee: Interrogation of a Writer — Giles Hugo
Stepping Out: Review of New Poets 9 — Jennifer Harrison

Fiction

Dangerous Waters — Craig Cormick
The Black Wool Ski Mask — Kevin Frazier
Stitches — Helen Addison-Smith
A Gun in Your Pocket — Paul Dawson
Father Bill — Jane Williams
Severance — Nigel Featherstone
Just Chemistry — Andrew Bifield

Poetry

Last Words — Peter Rose
The Entrepreneur's Dream — Peter Rose
Puzzle — David Ades
Letter from a Confectioner's Daughter — Elizabeth Stephens
The Cockatoo — John Mateer
An Essay in Miniature — Ross Clark
Breathing Her Name — Ross Clark
Curl-girl — Ashlley Morgan-Shae
The Marble Boy — Geoff Guess
Beware the Jazz — Raymond Allen
After the funeral — Jane Gibian
Bush Poetry — Les Wicks
Incident at Mt Boyce — Mark O'Flynn
Eve Langley's Hut, Leura — Mark O'Flynn
Ofrenda for Luke — Deborah Westbury