Issue 191
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winter 2008
The meaning of the Rudd revolution, the history of short histories, why kids hate Australia’s past and what happens to superheroes in the mainstream. |
Contents
Features
Kathleen Weekley – The Clever Principle of Similar Difference
Anna Clark − Learning About Stuff Outside the Box
Saskia Beudel − Desert Grasslands
Sean Scalmer − A Postscript, a Prospect
Martyn Pedler − The Tears of Doctor Doom
Jeremy Fisher − Into the Light [unavailable online]
Nathan Hollier − This Art Business
Brian Musgrove − States of Emergency
Allan Gardiner − Innovation and Tradition
Fiction
Philip Neilsen − Confessions Of A Non-Emigrant
Tim Richards − Club Selection
Lizzy Edwards − Bubble-And-Squeak
Stuart Cooke − Haarlem Retrospect
Poetry Prize
Julie Chevalier − Women of Antiquity 2002
Poetry
Astrid Lorange − we are here now, deal with it, etc − simultaneity
Derek Motion − cold logistics
Philip Hammial − Purgatory
Jessica L. Wilkinson − On a glacier with Mr Grainger
David Murray − from The Passenger − untitled
Brett Dionysius − Huia
Claire Potter − Violent Bike
Ouyang Yu − ‘Girl, Unfamiliar Girl, I love you, I love you’ − The Romance of a Small Town
Reviews
Tom Clark − The Kevin07 Summer Reading Specials
Rjurik Davidson − Southern Lights
Lyndall Ryan − Forged by War
Ben Peek − A Short Tour Through the Independents
David Prater − The Performance of Publication: Recent Australian Poetry
Graphics
Matthew Dunn − cover
Lofo
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