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Repetition Compulsion: Reading Glen Duncan

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by Tracy Ryan When it comes to reading fiction, I’m not averse to the single isolated encounter. It may be because the author only wrote one novel (Emily Brontë), or because there’s only one that appeals. It’s not the writer that’s in question, it’s the individual work. And after all, you can read that one book again and again – and again, with different outcomes at various stages in your life. But what I really love is finding a whole oeuvre to binge on, especially by a contemporary author where there’s likely more to come. “Prolific” is sometimes said with…

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Our First Monthly Blogger: Tracy Ryan!

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Tracy Ryan is our first monthly blogger. A poet, activist, academic, and many other things besides, she begins her posts on all things literary from this Friday, April 15th. So keep logging on from this Friday, as her posts are sure to be scintillating, insightful and fun. You can check out more about her in these two links: http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/authors/309/Tracy+Ryan http://poetsvegananarchistpacifist.blogspot.com/ Remember, you’re welcome to comment on her posts.

Long Paddock for Southerly 71.1: Modern Mobilities

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Southerly 71.1 is available to purchase here. This link will take you to our old GumRoad storefront (an external site). Remaining issues will be moved to our own site, here, soon. ESSAYS Hoa Pham, Finding a place in the world – Vietnamese-Australian diasporic writing Ann Finegan, Liverpool Liverpool: The Skin of Translation Denise Formica, Mediation at Work: Australian Contemporary Fiction in Italian Translation POETRY Kate Lilley, Anniversary (Summer Vacation) John Carey, While they run the titles Lucy Wilks, Between Existence REVIEWS Jennifer Hamilton on Philippa Kelly, The King and I Kate Livett on Amanda Lohrey, Reading Madame Bovary Fiona Hile…

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South Countries: John Kinsella, J.S. Harry

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It is cold, deepest cold, the lake frozen as far as the eye can see, which is not so far because there is also mist, low and heavy, a twilight mist, swept, as if it came from an endless plain, a vast tundra, by an icy blast, constantly changing, constantly the same. And semi-darkness. Hardly a soul in sight, if you can call them souls, although there is perhaps nothing else that they can be called. The sense of them, rather than the presence, a track worn by footsteps across a ridge of ice, mud mixed into it, making the…

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Long Paddock Teaser!

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The next issue of Southerly, our much anticipated India-Australia issue, is due in March. But we hate to keep you waiting any longer, so we have for you a Long Paddock teaser! Part of the Long Paddock, our free online component, is going up today to give you a taste of the fabulous bumper issue to come. We have stories, poems, reviews and essays – and that’s just for starters! More content will go up when the issue comes out. So check out the Long Paddock, and let us know what you think! Cheers, Tessa

Norma K Hemming Award 2011

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Entries are open until 28th February 2011 for the Norma K Hemming Award for excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class and disability in works of speculative fiction published in Australia during calendar year 2010. This prestigious jury award, sponsored by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation, was first given at Aussiecon 4 (68th Worldcon in Melbourne in September 2010). The 2011 award will be presented at Swancon 36/Natcon 50 in Perth on 21-25th April 2011. Please visit:  http://home.vicnet.net.au/~asff/NKHA-2011-rules.pdf for entry terms and conditions. Please visit:  http://home.vicnet.net.au/~asff/NKHA-2011-entry-form.pdf to download an entry form.

An Editor Out of Hiding.

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Firstly, welcome to the Southerly blog, and a Southerly that is going from strength to strength.  Thanks to our on-line component, The Long Paddock, we are publishing more material than ever. Despite the Global Financial Crisis, which has hit publishing badly and literary magazines very badly indeed, our subscription list is growing. And our social network is thriving. Our Facebook friends list has gone from zero to over two thousand in a matter of weeks. We are now accepting emailed submissions. We are now, thanks to Facebook, able to let our friends know in advance the themes of forthcoming issues.…

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Hi! and Welcome to the Southerly monthly bloggers!

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Our blog has been up for a couple of months now, but so far we’ve only been using it to let you now about our new issues. However this is all about to change. In 2011 we are starting our Southerly monthly bloggers program. The way it works is this: every month a different writer will host the monthly bloggers program. They will post about their adventures in literature, writing, publishing, words… the content is open and free, the only proviso is that they post about writing. As Southerly is a journal of Australian literature, all our bloggers will be…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 70.3: India India

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India has a strong culture of Australian literary studies, a very interesting and useful one, rich in its own opinions, expectations and perspectives. It seemed logical to at some point offer an Australian audience a chance to sample this alternative angle of perception, and here we are, an issue of Southerly with a central focus on Indian/Australian literary relations. It is a rich, rich field. So rich, in fact, that it has seemed wisest to place aside any concern for representativeness (by whose criteria, anyway?) and to offer instead – that very Australian thing – a show-bag, a sampler, full…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 70.2: Romance

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Is Australian romance an oxymoron? It has been long thought so; not for us Don Juan or Don Quixote but Ned Kelly and Tom Collins. Even when romance rears its alluring head in Australian fiction, as with Harry’s wooing of Sybilla in My Brilliant Career, it is often quashed as a distraction or delusion. More recently, celebrated texts of their times such as Puberty Blues (1979), Oscar and Lucinda (1988), Praise (1992) have confirmed the view that romance is difficult in Australia – and in Australian fiction. If we have prided ourselves on taking the steely-eyed view without the filter…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 70.1: Golden Tongues

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Southerly 70.1 is available to purchase here. This link will take you to our old GumRoad storefront (an external site). Remaining issues will be moved to our own site, here, soon. TRANSLATION FEATURE JORGE PALMA (Uruguay) Five Poems, trans. Peter Boyle  PABLO DE ROKHA (Chile) from Circle, trans. Stuart Cooke JULES SUPERVEILLE (France) Forest, The Secret Sea, trans. John Kinsella MILA KAČIČ (Slovenia) Three poems, trans. Bert Pribac and David Brooks VRASIDAS KARALIS On Translating Cavafy’s Peculiar Greek: the Aesthetics of Ungrammatical Sentences* FICTION Tarek Dale, Belief’s Threnody POETRY Ken Bolton, Kirkman Guide to the Bars of Europe Peter Boyle,…

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