Vox: EMMA DALLAS The Verity La Forum was conducted by Alec Patric from July 2011 to December 2011 Forum Question: A New Archaeology There has always been, since the first …
VOX: SHANE JESSE CHRISTMAS
Vox: Shane Jesse Christmass The Verity La Forum was conducted by Alec Patric from July 2011 to December 2011 Forum Question: A New Archaeology “In proportion as the mass of …
ALL THINGS FRESH AND DIFFERENT: an interview with Rebecca Starford
WILL HEYWARD Félix Fénéon, a gifted turn-of-the-century French publisher (of both Joyce and Proust), in response to an invitation to publish his own writing, once said: I aspire only to …
The Upstairs Food Court (Andrew Galan)
Rubber tyre rolls bain-marie aisles grips heavy toddler centrifugally snug three kids run beside reaching pushing scream delight across fluorescent tiles tread bounces down metal staircase arm waves round’n’round …
JUMPING THROUGH AND MANAGING THE TANGLE: an interview with Writing Australia’s Mary Delahunty
The unstoppable Mary Delahunty has been many things. She’s been an award-winning journalist on the ABC’s Four Corners and 7.30 Report programs, as well as on commercial networks. From 1999 …
Fists (Peter Farrar)
Car exhaust unfurls from my neighbour’s garage. I don’t know if they are committing suicide or smoking meat. I roll a cigarette. Have progressed well past a pack a …
The List Grows (Emilie Collyer)
This is what you can’t do. It’s a list that grows. Like that taunt boys used to write on blackboards: the more you rub the bigger it gets. Pink …
One Day in English (Francesca Rendle-Short)
One day in English things did go haywire. The teachers must have known exactly who Glory was the day she arrived. News would have travelled fast around the staffroom …
WRITING IN THE GAP BETWEEN: an interview with Francesca Rendle-Short
Francesca Rendle-Short has been many things in her life: radio producer, editor, art gallery worker, and mother of two now-adult children. She has a Doctor of Creative Arts from the …
Thoroughly modern poets in triptych: review by Mark William Jackson
On my bookshelves, after my chronologically ordered issues of Overland, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging etc., after my poetry collections, alphabetised by poet’s surname, sit the anthologies in no particular order …