To No Avail
by Rob Wallis
Mario Stefani: Loneliness is not being alone; it’s loving others to no avail.
The glass pinning your note
down on the kitchen table
is a knife thrust through
the paper-thin layer of my
trust, the words like crackling
static on a faulty line
and all I decipher, or rather
intuit is the horror story
about finding somebody else.
Volume 54 Number 1, July 2009
Cover: Robyn Mundy of Mundy Design from a painting by Helen Norton, The Shores of the Excommunicated
Oil on canvas (150cm x 200cm).
54.1
July 1, 2009
$14.95
issue contents
Stories
Stephanie Dickinson
Dalloway & Hannah’s Womb
Ramesh Avadhani
The Night of the Lotus
Simone Hughes
Where Mammon Meets the Desert
Joanne Riccioni
The Moment in the Draughty Church at Smokefall
Marc Wohling
The Give Up
Articles
Michael Wilding
Expatriation, Location and Creativity
Robert Dixon
Home or Away? The Trope of Place in Australian Literary Criticism and Literary History
Jenny Strauss
Building the Heart or Troubling the Mind?
Perpetua Durack Clancy
Eddie Burrup – A Daughter’s View
Louise Morrison
The Art of Eddie Burrup
Ted Snell
The Fantasist: Elizabeth Durack and Eddie Burrup
Per Henningsgaard
From Soundings to Yeera-muk-a-doo:The Early Years of Fremantle Arts Centre Press 9
Charles McLaughlin
Adventures in AustLit:The Goldfields Bards of Western Australia
Susan Sheridan
Dorothy Hewett’s Paths to The Chapel Perilous
Review essay
Susan Midalia
The year’s work in fiction
Julian Croft
Australian Poetry 2008–2009
Tony Simoes da Silva
The year’s work in non-fiction
Poetry
Susan Hawthorne
Mark O’Flynn
Caroline Caddy
Rob Wallis
Rhodora Penaranda
Andrew Heath
Jean Kent
Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Roland Leach
Kevin Gillam
Rory Harris
Marlene Marburg
Paul Fearne
Jenny Schwartz
Richard Davis
Fiona Wright
Shane McCauley
Cameron Fuller
Ashley Capes
Benjamin Cornford
Shevaun Cooley
Meredi Ortega
Robyn Cadwallader
Anne Elvey
Aidan Coleman
Christopher Kelen
