Spring 2004 Contents page | Editorial | Poetry | Fiction | Reviews |

From the EDITORIAL:

This issue of Island leads with extended features on novelist Christopher Koch and poet and publisher Tim Thorne. Represented in another way, through the insert for his new book, is Geoff Dean. Koch and Dean are in their seventies, Thorne is sixty. The works of all three have been strongly influenced by Tasmania. Koch’s novels have achieved worldwide acclaim over twenty years. Thorne has had his poetry published, and he has published much by others, since the early seventies; Geoff Dean’s published short stories number in the hundreds (he is acknowledged as a founder member in the editorial of the first, 1979 issue of the Tasmanian Review, which became Island). Koch, Thorne and Dean are nothing if not robust in their commitment to their three different forms, the novel, the poem, the short story, and have been so for decades. Island is very pleased to salute them. Younger writers are coming through. Many will first be published in literary magazines. They too will go on to long and successful careers as writers. How vulgar their English will be, however, is not yet known.

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