Category: Long Paddock

Long Paddock for Southerly 71.3: A Nest of Bunyips

Southerly 71.3 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. POETRY Rae Desmond Jones, Ash Wednesday Stuart Barnes, Cocoon Andrew Burke, “The birds are still in flight . . . ” Liam Byrne, soviet kitsch Peter Dawncy, ruins Michael Farrell, Telephone Liam Ferney, NC-17 Ian Gibbins, Dr Korsakoff and Colleagues Report Philip Hammial, Dear Sisters and Brothers D.J. Huppatz, Fuzzy-Wuzzy Angels Greg McLaren, The rusting land . . . , from Broken Ng Mei-kwan, Rainstorm (trans. Bonnie S. McDougall)…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 71.1: Modern Mobilities

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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Long Paddock for Southerly 70.3: India India

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

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

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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Long Paddock for Southerly 69.3: The Poetry Issue

Southerly 69.3.1 is available to purchase here – In Print | Digital. This link will take you to our old GumRoad storefront (an external site). Remaining issues will be moved to our own site, here, soon. REVIEWS Ken Bolton reviews Blow Out by Rae Desmond Jones Andrew Burke reviews Interstitial Journeys by Marvis Sofield, Strands by Barbara De Franceschi, Blow Out by Rae Desmond Jones, and The Ambrosiacs by Les Wicks POETRY “Some Photos for Gabe” by Ken Bolton “Zottegem” by Pam Brown ESSAY Adrienne Sallay on Vicki Viidikas NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Click here to browse our store

Long Paddock for Southerly 69.2: Southerly at Seventy

Southerly 69.2 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. SHORT FICTION Raelee Chapman, A Drive In The Country Kim Farleigh, The Final Saga of War ESSAYS Jean-François Vernay, Lost in Diversion: Repetition and Ennui in Antoni Jach’s The Weekly Card Game REVIEWS Siang Ju reviews Patrick O’Neil’s Sideways — Travels with Kafka, Hunter S. and Kerouac Tessa Lunney reviews Shirley Walker’s The Ghost at the Wedding Click here to browse our store

Long Paddock for Southerly 69.1: Animal

Where dwells the animal in Australian thought? The vast majority of that thought goes not to consideration of the species barrier, or to matters of animal cruelty and animal rights, but to the marketing of animal products. Yet certain Australians have been at the forefront of animal rights issues in recent times – Peter Singer, J. M Coetzee, David Malouf, A. D. Hope, J. S. Harry and others. This issue includes stimulating contributions from Dominic Hyde on Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood, major figures in the critique of anthrocentrism; Helen Tiffin on Peter Goldsworthy; and essays by Yvonne Smith on…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 68.3: Double Exposures

Southerly 68.3 is available to purchase here (Digital Edition). 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 Andrew Game, Crossing Intercultural Boundaries: The Reception of Paul Wenz in Australia and France John Hawke, Post-Symbolism: James McAuley and A. D. Hope John Kinsella, A Neurotic Reading of C. J. Brennan’s “The Wanderer” Tracy Ryan, “The living hyphen”: France and Australia in two novels by Marion May Campbell David Wells, A. D. Hope and the Poetics of Acmeism REVIEWS Craig Billingham, of Michael Brennan, Unanimous…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 68.2: Little Disturbances

Southerly 68.2 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. Isabelle Li, A fishbone in the throat Gonzalo Melchor, Lens Ann Penhallurick, Polished Stones, review of works by Kathryn Lomer, Ian Alexander, Neville Fletcher, Tiggy Johnson, Vicky Sentana and Vicki Thornton Elizabeth Uhlmann, review of We All Need a Witness, and Indigo NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS   Click here to browse our store