Midnite Songs
Miss Laura Wellborn’s Song
by Randolph Stow
If I were a Countess
I’d sit in a chair —
which, because of my bustle,
would be a bergère —
and embroider a cushion
and daydream and sing,
and ring for a footman
if I drop anything.
Volume 57 Number 1, July 2012
Cover: Perdita Phillips, Athabasca Glacier
Digital photograph. 2007.(29.7 x 19.8 cm). Photograph © Perdita Phillips www.perditaphillips.com Reproduced with kind permission of the artist.
57.1
July 1, 2012
$14.95
issue contents
Stories
Nadine Browne
Strange Fruit
Elizabeth Tan
T
John Saul
Egypt
Karen Atkinson
The Nest
Noel King
The Laryngitis Game
Wayne Strudwick
A Faithful Dog
John Kinsella
Bay
Review essays
Judith Beveridge
Australian Poetry 2011—2012
Annabel Smith
The Year’s Work in Fiction
Articles
Gabrielle Carey
An Occasional Free Spirit: Randolph Stow’s Satiric Streak
Christopher (Kit) Kelen
Workshopping Western Australian Poets for the Chinese Reader
Nicholas Jose
Damage Control: Australian Literature as Translation
Hannah Schürholz
Shadow of the Dead: Stories of Transience in Tim Winton’s Fiction
Peter Matthews
The Virtue of Self-Discipline:Reading Tsiolkas and Foucault
Poetry
Randolph Stow
Rose van Son
William Byrne
Susan Adams
Ann Egan
Sue Clenell
Kevin Gillam
Jesse Ferguson
Sam Byfield
Lucas North
Josephine Wilson
Tim Vallence
Luke Beesley
Alexander Tan
Nathan Curnow
Susan Fealy
Rabrindra K Swain
Fiona Hile
Stephen Brock
Jonathan Hadwen
Josephine Clarke
Warwick Sprawson
Tim Edwards
Cath Drake
Meredi Ortega
Jesse Shipway
Virginia Jealous
J.K. Murphy
