Issue 223


REGULARS

Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead

Natalie Harkin

Mel Campbell

Giovanni Tiso

Alison Croggon

Contributors

 

FEATURES

Sisonke Msimang

End of the rainbow

The Fallists and contemporary South Africa

 

Natalie Kon-yu

‘A testicular hit-list of literary big cats’

Sexist values in literary culture

 

Stuart Glover

Getting on the same page

Where to for arts funding?

 

Sarah Burnside

Science is golden

Just not in Australia

 

Olivier Jutel

The political logic of desire

On Antipodean conservatism

 

Jay Carmichael

Smalltown boy

Coming out in an unsafe school

 

Dean Biron

The gun

Life as a Queensland detective

 

nakata brophy

charmaine papertalk-green, toby fitch, katherine firth

Nakata Brophy Prize report

 

ellen van neerven

First place: Expert

 

FICTION

Claudia Salazar Jiménez
Translated by Elizabeth Bryer

Letter to Salvador

 

Ben Walter

It’s all happening here

 

Ellena Savage

Postscript

 

POETRY

susie orpen

Still dreaming

 

shale preston

Luminosity

 

Philip Hammial

Cautionary tales

 

ouyang yu

Their talk

 

Fiona Wright

There is repetition

And they are angry

 

Leif Mahoney

Night pieces

elliptic ecliptic

 

Chris Mansell

Quads 17–19

 

paul chicharo

Transcendental mathematics

 

Anna ryan-punch

pseudonyms for women

 

ARTWORK

Savina Hopkins

Guest artist issue 223: cover;
illustrations on pages 4, 58, 65, 68

 

Brent Stegeman

All other artwork

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