A Marriage of True Minds: Leonard and Elizabeth Jolley
by John Barnes
One of the most unsettling experiences in old age is the discovery, after the death of friends whom you thought that you knew well, that you had been unaware of what had been most central to their lives. We live in an age of revelation, when it is easier than it has ever been before to dig up the past; and the public’s ‘right to know’ is freely invoked to justify intrusions into the private lives of the living. The dead, especially celebrities, have always been fair game.
Volume 58 Number 2, November 2013
Cover: Pilar Mata Dupont Detail of still from The Embrace
Single-channel High Definition digital video, 5:04 min colour; sound 2013. Image courtesy of the artist.
58.2
November 2, 2013
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issue contents
The Beauty Issue
The theme of 58.2 is the result of a panel discussion at the Perth Writer’s Festival in which a group including Dennis Haskell and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery director, Dr Sally Quin, discussed the idea of beauty. Sally Quin contributes a conversation she conducted with three contemporary artists on the topic, including Pilar Mata Dupont, whose video installation is used as a basis for the cover design.
Guest edited by former editor Professor Dennis Haskell.
Please note that physical copies of this Issue have sold out but digital copies remain available (free to download).
Contents:
Beauty
Dennis Haskell
The Challenge of Beauty
Sally Quin
Some Thoughts on Beauty and Bliss
Carmel Macdonald-Grahame
On Behalf of Nature Poetry
Carmel Macdonald-Grahame
Clutching at Petals
Carmel Macdonald-Grahame
Oedo Chapel, Korea—
Cathryne Sanders
The Beauty of the Australian House
Laurie Steed
Wallpaper
Ali Alizadeh
The Beauty of the Dead Child
Simon Jackson
Burning Barbie
Jake Roseman
Eight Years and Four Months
Vivienne Glance
On drawing a stranger, unobserved
Josephine Clarke
Karri Hazel
Susan Lever
Strange and Beautiful
Deborah Hunn
Endless Winter
Julie Watts
The Queue
Miriam Wei Wei Lo
If I Want to Keep Beauty
Dennis Haskell
Make It New?
Reminiscence
John Barnes
A Marriage of True Minds
Poems
Jennifer Compton
John Kinsella
George Gott
Anna Ryan-Punch
Miro Sandev
Michael Farrell
Simon Perchik
Rachael Petridis
Rebecca Law
Duncan Richardson
Jeff Guess
Andy Kissane
Mags Webster
Dick Alderson
Bev Braune
Mark O’Flynn
Matthew Rodgers
An Qi (trans. Ouyang Yu)
Geoff Page
William Byrne
Graeme Hetherington
Karen Throssell
Ted Mc Carthy
Rose Lucas
Carolyn Abbs
Sami Rafiq
Deborah Westbury
Stories
Lachlan Prior
Let’s Dance
Fikret Pajalic
Dinosaur
Gabriel Don
Somewhere Else
M. T. O’Byrne
The Day Before Christmas Island
Shokoofeh Azar
The woman who went to stand there
Kate Elkington
A Boxful of Prophets
Mark O’Flynn
Turning the Other Cheek
Zdravka Evtimova
Happiness is a Simple Thing
Henry Ward
The Orator
Graham Kershaw
Stone Cold English
Essays
Rohan Wilson
Anxiety of Reference in That Deadman Dance
John Burbidge
Gerald Glaskin Revisited
Nicholas Walton-Healey
Where Blood Comes From
Jane Vaughan
Form, Artifice and Contemporary Australian Poetics: John Tranter’s ‘The Anaglyph’
Review Essays
Robyn Mundy
The Year’s Work in Fiction
John Hawke
‘Distant and kindred analogies’ in recent Australian poetry
Poems
Diane Fahey
Louise Carter
Beth Spencer
Paul Summers
Stu Hatton
Ross Jackson
Robert James Berry
Carol Millner
Corey Wakeling
Ian C. Smith
Rose van Son
Julie Watts
Yann Toussaint
Siall Waterbright
Gao Pengcheng (trans. Ouyang Yu)
Ron Pretty
Graeme Hetherington
Knute Skinner
Ross Donlon
Fran Graham
Jonathan Hadwen
Geoff Page
Wes Lee
B. R. Dionysius
Gary Allen
