Contents
Regulars
Rjurik Davidson − Editorial
Correspondence
Towards 200: Sean Scalmer and Jackie Dickenson − The march of the insider
CAL—Art and Life: Zanny Begg − I don’t know much about revolution but I know what I like *
Meanland: Emmett Stinson − The pirate code
Essays
Cate Kennedy − Driven to distraction
Michael Hyde − Getting out of the boat
Tad Tietze − The Greens, the crisis and the Left
Thomas Caldwell − Some of the finest films
Seb Prowse − Political treasures
Andrew McCann − The eventfulness of Roberto Bolaño
John McLaren − The forest and its undergrowth
Maxine Clarke − White Australia has a blackface history (online only)
Barry Scott − Giving writers a voice (online only)
Poetry Prize
Keri Glastonbury − Networked communities
Derek Motion − forest hill
Duncan Hose − SOUTHWEST | lyrebird
Fiction
Carmel Bird − Waiting for the green man
A S Patric − Beckett & Son
Reviews
Pam Brown − Villain, Views of the Hudson, Beautiful Waste, Wimmera
Tom Clark − Bendable Learnings
Poetry
Cameron Fuller − There’s a bomb on this train of thought
Sue Watson − Brush turkey’s
J K Murphy − Valley gutter
John Kinsella − Resurrection Plants at Nookaminnie Rock
π.o. − Gerry Gee / Ron Blaskett
Adam Ford − Salt
Josephine Rowe − The Man Who Shot Lions
Amanda Surrey − the great ocean road
Cover
Zanny Begg