Closer
by Caitlin Mailing
What makes a tree burn like that?
Already fallen, already dead, the other trees
just hurdles to walking.
Volume 61 Number 2, November 2016
Cover: Image supplied courtesy of the Berndt Museum. Accession Nos. 11620, 11625, 11628, 11644, 11648, 11652: Attributed to Srisakra Vallibhotam and Rote Sodersire, Thailand, Miniatures
c. 1968–1970, woven bamboo. R.M. & C.H. Berndt Collection, Berndt Museum.
61.2
November 25, 2016
$16.95
issue contents
A diverse collection of work from 43 authors includes the voices of Cate Kennedy, Ouyang Yu, Anne Elvey and Paul Hetherington, Issue 61.2 contemplates the outward-looking, complex capacity of writing as a way of understanding both ourselves, and the spaces we live in.
Issue 61.2 introduces the Indigenous editorship of Elfie Shiosaki and welcomes new prose editor, Dr Rachel Robertson.
Contents:
Poetry
Eric Shaffer
Walking Zone
Ella Jeffery
Bond Cleaning
Lea McInernay
Making
Stuart A. Paterson
The Athiest’s Prayer
Ignatius Kim
Christchurch stopover
D.A. Hosek
Chicago Sonnet #5
Alice Allan
Cartography
Liam Ferney
Woman in transit
Josephine Clarke
Child in a Suitcase
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
From ‘Notes toward a lesser consolation’
Lucy Czerwiec
Abrolhos (after Batavia)
Caitlin Mailing
Closer
Brett Dionysius
Southern Bookook Owls
Rose van Son
Flora Abundance
Les Wicks
Kyeemagh’s Sunny April
Anne M. Carson
The filament of the body
Robbie Coburn
For my father, at last
Dick Alderson
link
Ron Pretty
New Wine
Tim Edwards
The Literary Ant
Paul Hetherington
Itchings and Belongings: After Paul Strand
Paul Munden
Kick/Recall
Alyson Miller
Lunar
Anne Elvey
Skin world
Fiction
Caitlin Prince
Native Animal
Zoe Deleuil
Travelling to the Motherland
Donna Mazza
Love in Two Parts
Karen Atkinson
Everybody Knows
Raelee Chapman
The Gardener
Joanna Morrison
Night Road to Ceduna
Creative Non-Fiction
Marie O’Rourke
Lessons in the Domestic Arts: A Sampler
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes and Rebecca Higgie
Born Free, Created Poor: Coming of Age in Ethiopia
Heather Taylor Johnson
Skydiving for Twenty-Two Year-olds (and Thirteen Year-olds, and Forty-Two Year-olds)
Essays
Cate Kennedy
The Empathy App
Timmah Ball
In Australia
Ouyang Yu
‘A Bilingual Force Moving in Between’: memories of a bilingual animal
Vanessa Wiggin
Thai Miniatures
Siti Sarah Ridhuan
Kain Songket
Jo Jones
Feeling through Form: Kim Scott’s ‘Benang’ and the Romantic Poetic
Nicole Moore
Performing 1971: Dorothy Hewett’s ‘The Chapel Perilous’
Amy Hilhorst
Prose Poetry and Painting with Words: in Conversation with Paul Hetherington
Reviews
Lika Posamari
Hope ascends with a foot in each world
Marie Munkara
There is Life Here: A review of ‘Two Sisters’
