Reasons for Play
by Fay Zwicky
Spruce from their analyses
those soulful characters,
spectacles driven backwards
across furrowed balding fronts,
intoned: ‘The trouble with you,
you never learnt to play.’
Issue 55 Number 2 November 2010
Cover: Rosalie Okely, Graphic Design, Perth
55.2
November 1, 2010
$14.95
issue contents
Stories
Marcella Polain
Sleep without Cameras
David Hutchison
Meltemi
Helena Kadmos
Moving On
Richard Rossiter
Transubstantiation
Sophie Sunderland
The Roses
Amanda Curtin
Gratitude
Deborah Hunn
Just a Few Simple Questions
Barbara Temperton
House of the Red Witch
Georgia Richter
A Drink at The Retro
Articles
Richard Weller
Big Pictures
Jo Jones
History and the Novel: Refusing to be Silent
Rachel Robertson
Geometry of Echoes
Play Extract
Reg Cribb
Ruby’s Last Dollar
Randolph Stow Tribute
Randolph Stow
‘Clichés’, ‘Country & Western’, ‘Merry-Go-Round’
Gabrielle Carey
Moving Among Strangers, Darkly
Tony Hassall
Randolph Stow: A Memoir
Roger Averill
The Story of a (Post)Colonial Boy
Sam Dutton
Randolph Stow in Harwich
Bruce Bennett
Randolph Stow 1935-2010
Poetry
Fay Zwicky
Tim McCabe
Alec Choate
Mallery Koons
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Peter Bibby
Flora Smith
Andrew Taylor
Roland Leach
Annamaria Weldon
Kevin Gillam
Meredi Ortega
Vivienne Glance
Paula Jones
Cas Rawlins
Dick Alderson
Josephine Clarke
Andrew Landsdown
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers
Sarah French
Janet Jackson
Helen Hagemann
Jenny de Garis
Sue Clennell
Graham Kershaw
Maree Dawes
Tim Edwards
Shane McCauley
Daniel Stavely
