Dancing
by Rachel Robertson
He hands me words like a bunch of flowers—finesse, equilibrium, divergence. They seem to scent the air with optimism. We talk into a topic, and through it. He is lyrical and philosophical; I am ironic and teasing. I take his words, though, hold them close.
Volume 60 Number 2, November 2015
Cover: Guy Grey-Smith, The transfiguration
1963, oil and beeswax emulsion on board, 129 x 122 cm (h, w), The University of Western Australia Art Collection, Tom Collins Bequest Fund, 1964 © The Univeristy of Western Australia
60.2
November 1, 2015
$14.95
issue contents
Featuring new work by Rachel Robertson, Elizabeth Smither, Jordie Albiston and Richard James Allen, issue 60.2 is the first edition under the editorship of Dr Catherine Noske.
60.2 showcases poetry from emerging writers, SJ Finch and Siobhan Hodge, introduced in our Word Matters campaign, as well as a wonderful array of contemporary poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, essays and reviews.
Contents:
Fiction
Rachel Robertson
Dancing
Alan Fyfe
Summer
Josephine Taylor
Sigh-Co
Carol Millner
Interiors
Harriet McKnight
The Standardised Patient
Luke Johnson
The Names of Dead Horses
Siobhan Paget
On The Wallaby Track
Ann-Marie Blanchard
Fireweed
Irma Gold
Rescuing Chang
Poems
Richard James
Allen Yang Xie (trans Ouyang Yu)
Jo Langdon
Emily O’Grady
Gavin Yates
Elizabeth Smither
Belinda Rule
Jodie Hollander
Shane McCauley
Marc Swan
Steven J Finch
Virginia Jealous
Siobhan Hodge
Vanessa Kirkpatrick
Jordie Albiston
Anne Elvey
Charlotte Guest
Jane Frank
Carolyn Abbs
Josephine Clarke
Allison Campbell
Stuart Barnes
Bruce Dawe
Amy Crutchfield
Rachael Petridis
Stephen Gilfedder
Caitlin Maling
Graeme Miles
Cameron Fuller
Essays
Corey Wakeling
Anxiety and Antigone: an introduction to Gig Ryan’s New and Selected poems (2011)
Ffion Murphy and Richard Nile
Wounded storyteller: Revisiting Albert Facey’s fortunate life
Lucy Treep
The Pea-pickers: An Introduction
Nathan Hobby
‘The memory of a storm’: The Wild Oats of Han and the childhood of Katharine Susannah Prichard, 1887 to 1895
Reviews
Eva Bujalka
Guadalupe Nettel’s The Body Where I Was Born
Siobhan Hodge
Lucy Dougan’s The Guardians and Ali Cobby Eckermann’s Inside my Mother
Amy Hilhorst
‘The other world where things alter’: Review of Philip Salom’s Alterworld
