Contents

Editorial

Kalinda Ashton – Against Reality

Overland Lecture

John Harms – All Is Not What It Seems

Features

Katherine Wilson – Guns, Guards and Gates
Francesca Rendle-Short – Illicit Desire
Jess Whyte – Contesting Reality
Fiona McGregor – 101 Tin Drums
Rjurik Davidson – Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and China Miéville
Terry Eyssens – On|Off
Michael Head – Militarisation by Stealth
David Ritter – Cartography Blanche

Fiction

Ben Peek – Excerpts from Books Fifty Years from Now
Jill Sparrow and Paul Voermans – A Working Childhood
Susan Wardle – Children of the Dirt

Regulars

Christos Tsiolkas – The Lives of an Art House Audience

Poetry

Jonathan Hadwen – Got ’em
Margaret Bradstock – Moons of Jupiter
Peter Lach-Newinsky – Black Blood
Joyce Parkes – Budget Brrrs
Will Fraser – 2007
Chris Mansell – the general becomes
Philip Neilsen – The Conservative Forest
Tim Metcalf – Rodent Fugue
Greg McLaren – A clearing with a town
David Kerr – Return to the Convincing Ground
Andrea Semeniuk – The Garden
Lidija Šimkutė – The Desolate Courtyard
Ouyang Yu – Self Publishing

Reviews

Georgie Arnott – Letters of Love and Fury
Damien Williams – Cold War Lives
Georgina Murray – Warriors Against Democracy
Scott Hamilton – Neglected Corners
Robyn Annear – Redeeming Features
Rowan Cahill – Breaking the Iron Collars

Graphics

Jon Cattapan − Cover
Lofo
Zanny Begg