Southerly
Launched in 1939, Southerly is Australia’s oldest continuous literary journal. Dedicated to publishing new literature of the highest standard, Southerly provides a link between the academy and the garret.
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Southerly 80.1
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A collection of pandemic-adjacent writing, featuring new work by Claire Aman, Chris Andrews, Chris Arnold, Stuart Barnes, Vanessa Berry, Pam Brown, Pascalle Burton, Anne Casey, Julie Chevalier, Eileen Chong, Matthew Clarke, Josie/Jocelyn Deane, Shastra Deo, Lucy Dougan, Dave Drayton, Johanna Ellersdorfer, Blake Falcongreen, Michael Farrell, Liam Ferney, Toby Fitch, Angela
Southerly 79.3: The Way We Live Now
The island continent has created an archipelago of incarceration in its surrounding seas. This issue is devoted entirely to the work of past and present refugees. PRINT EDITION For the digital edition, click here.
Southerly 79.2: Writing Through Fences – Archipelago of Letters
A celebration of our 80th anniversary and salute the writers we have published. Contributors recall the significance of works dating from as many as 50 and 60 years ago.
Southerly 79.1: 80!
Violence provides a readymade drama, an impetus for action, shock or transformation, but literature is also a site of violence in the recording, masking, performance and objectification of violence.
Southerly 78.3: Violence
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News
Announcing
Barribugu
“Future” in the Dharug language
~ a home for young Australian writers
Announcing the Grace Southerly Emerging Writers Fellowship
Southerly, in partnership with Varuna, is delighted to announce the inaugural Grace Southerly Emerging Writers Fellowship. Three two-week fellowships were
Announcing the Inaugural Southerly Essay
Southerly is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural Southerly Essay, written by K.A Ren Wyld, entitled “Serve the tea
The Southerly Poetry Prize – closed
We’re delighted to announce Southerly 79.3, The Way We Live Now, a special issue edited by Melissa Hardie and Kate
Announcing Southerly 80.1: First, The Future
We’re delighted to announce Southerly 80.1, ‘First, The Future’, co-edited by guest co-editor K.A.Ren Wyld and new Southerly editor
Blog
Binary Opposition
Rashida Murphy Some years ago, a writer told me she didn’t believe in binary oppositions. This wealthy, white, well-connected woman,
Luminous with Manifold Illusion: Rereading as Postmortem or Death of the Poet
Georgia Rose Phillips “I can recover my calm by living the metaphors of the ocean.” – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics
Enter the Ghost, Exit the Ghost: Rereading as a Haunting–Phantom Texts, Hauntology and Spectral Readers
Georgia Rose Phillips For a long time, I have been rereading John Ashbery’s poem “Syringa” in the way I occasionally
In Praise of Rereading: Iterative Inhabitations and Sheltering the Paradise of Words
Georgia Rose Phillips Sometimes, the line of a poem leaps out unexpectedly from the well of my consciousness when I