Contents
Regulars
Jeff Sparrow − Editorial
Features
Malalai Joya − Interview
Get out of Afghanistan now!
John Martinkus − ‘Kidnapped in Iraq, attacked in Australia’
Journalism in a time of war
Eve Vincent− Life in limbo
The cruelty of mandatory detention
Jessica Whyte − ‘The long night of the Left is drawing to a close’
Communism after communism
John Kinsella − A rural diary
Pages from a poet’s notebook
Jennifer Mills – How to write about Aboriginal Australia
A handy guide
Bruce Mutard – Gwen Kelly’s ‘The birthday boy’
A re-imagining of a story from Overland 5
Kirsten Tranter – Refiguring fiction
Feminism and China Miéville
Peter Kirkpatrick – A one-man writer’s festival
On the poetry of Clive James
Andy Worthington – When America changed forever
Human rights ten years after 9/11
Richard Seymour – What was that all about?
The meaning of the war on terror
CAL Connections:Ellena Savage – ‘My flesh turned to stone’ •
The politics of trauma
Meanland: Emmett Stinson − Vanity Fair
Self-publishing in a digital age
Fiction
Jacinda Woodhead − How to tell if you’re the red herring
Charlotte Wood − Animal People
Anthony Panegyres − Reading coffee
Poetry
Elizabeth Allen − Two Years On
Liam Ferney − Before Autumn
Peter Rose – Stuff of Sleep and Dreams
John Leonard – After Rain
Jill Jones – Misinterpretations /or The Dark Grey Outline
Luke Beesley – Peregrine Falcon
Adam Formosa – The twin stacks
Judy Durrant – gladstone bag
Nathan Curnow – excluding guns and ammo
Ann Vickery – at Heatherlie Quarry
Brenda Saunders – Toyota Dreaming
Cover
Reeham Hakem from Crooked Rib Art, photographs by Lisa Fletcher
• Supported by Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund