‘The House’ by Kristian Radford
nostalgia is an earthy perfume, sinking into hunger
once every month or so I see it, lying in bed at 2 a.m.
lacuna that memory can’t fill
helpless waterlily loose on a dark lake
Volume 69 Number 1, August 2024
Cover: Hop Dac, 'Bungarra', 2023. Oil on canvas. Image provided by artist. © Hop Dac, 2023.
69.1
August 22, 2024
$24.95
issue contents
With writing and ideas from Andrew Sutherland, Melanie Pryor, Diane Fahey, Jill Jones, Alan Fyfe, Miriam Jones, Ellie Fisher, Siobhan Hodge, Jake Dennis, Nathan Erwin, David Stavanger, Elizabeth Smither, Sam Wren Quan Sing, Kerry Greer, Ronald Arana Atilano, Graham Kershaw, Susanne Kennedy, Grace Chan, Franchesca Walker, Michael Farrell, Lisa Collyer, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, Arna Radovich, Meg Drummond-Wilson, Luoyang Chen, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Catherine Johnstone, Kevin Brophy, Nathan Hobby, Jo Langdon, Heather Taylor Johnson, Aden Curran and many others…
Contents:
Poetry
Andrew Sutherland
We could have gone wandering out into the snow
Jake Dennis
Memento: For Ko Mya Soe
Nathan Erwin
A Dream of Salamanders
David Stavanger
I've been thinking about your birth lately
Elizabeth Smither
A room of Madonnas
Ronald Atilano
Daitokuji
William Fox
Sunday
Mike Ladd
Passing the house
Graham Kershaw
Sleeping Over Water: Waterfold Mill, Lumb, 1903
Arna Radovich
We Slept
Cameron Lowe
Reading John Berger & Jean Mohr's A Fortunate Man in the St Mary's Hall medical library
Shane Lisle
Midnight XPT
Damen O’Brien
MRI
Svetlana Sterlin
Cusped: For Rachael
Diane Fahey
The White Tower: White butterflies, 8am
Jill Jones
Object Lesson: The Table
Alan Fyfe
The Story of the Olivewood Bed
Miriam Jones
la ñina diptych
Kristian Radford
The House
Siobhan Hodge
An Accident
Riley Faulds
sol
j. taylor bell
My Kingdom for a Mark Maggiori Print and Some Blundstones
Susanne Kennedy
Mangrove fishing
Michael Farrell
Mosquito Bird Central
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
Axe Marks in Tree Trunks: After the stories of Ljube Pavlinovich
and Remy Beus
Lisa Collyer
Hodge: after Thomas Hardy
Meg Drummond-Wilson
Alchemy
Luoyang Chen
No Longer Human
Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Suspension: after Peter Boyle
Jennifer Eadie
The Impact of Missionaries
Kevin Brophy
About Happiness
Jo Langdon
Epistolary
Dorianne Laux
The Weight of Days
Cindy Solonec
Naysayers
Fiction
Cal Newton
A Study
Sam Wren Quan Sing
Keeping Track
Franchesca Walker
Street Fight
Aden Curran
Sweet Potato Vine
Creative Nonfiction
Melanie Pryor
The Weeping Hands
Ellie Fisher
Surface Tension
Ian C Smith
From the Depths
Catherine Johnstone
The Red Coat
Nathan Hobby
A Memorial Trail for Griff Watkins
Heather Taylor-Johnson
The Truth about Yellow
Fiction
Emma-Grace Clarke
Witold's Realm of Form
Kerry Greer
The Red Sea
Grace Chan
Digital Love, or How I Got You Back
Visual Material
Hop Dac
Bungarra
Scholarly
Samuel J. Cox
On the Track to Tourmaline: Randolph Stow's 'dry-souled country'
Dan Disney
A Critical Villanelle for John Kinsella: singing Walter Benjamin's 'The Author as Producer' (1934) alongside Byung-Chul Han's In the Swarm (2017)
The Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture
Catherine Noske
Ngaangk: those sunstruck miles
