Contents
Regulars
Jeff Sparrow − Editorial
Correspondence
Essays
Guy Rundle − ‘Open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take’
Wendy Bacon − Being free by acting free
Rjurik Davidson − Imagining new worlds
Bob Gosford − ‘They took our culture — now there is no law’
Alexis Wright − Talking about tomorrow
Patricia Gillespie − [In]Dignity
CAL–Connections essay: David Donaldson − Masculinity and the homosexual advance defence •
Meanland: Caroline Hamilton − The exposure economy
Focus
Shaun Tan
Poetry Prize •
Peter Minter − Judge’s report
K A Nelson − Chorus of crows
Fiction
Kalinda Ashton − Simpler than that
Helen Dinmore − Unplugged
Clare Strahan − Finders keepers
Poetry
Jennifer Compton − I Came Home with the Shopping
Jane Gibian − tidemark
John Kinsella − Survey
Davide Angelo − Untitled
Stuart Cooke − Ash-brie’s Old Blue
Kevin Gillam − the purpling
Michael Farrell − The Influence of Lorca in the Outback
Reviews
Justin Clemens – Being caught dead
Cover
Shaun Tan − detail from The Reader, 2010
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