Long Paddock for Southerly 77.1: Questionable Characters
Questionable characters are the characters we can’t define, forget, resist or feel entirely comfortable with. They challenge out values and beliefs and surprise us with new imaginings of ethos. This issue of Southerly draws together a rich and eclectic range or essays, poetry and fiction. Luigi Gussago argues that Peter Carey’s histories present a challenge to the univocal false-consciousness of Australian colonial history, while Debra Adelaide’s Reading Australia essay on Thea Astley’s Drylands argues that Astley draws “text, author and reader into an embrace so intimate they are barely distinguishable”. The detective fiction “pot-boilers” of Shane Martin, AKA George Johnston, are considered in a new light by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalzeill. Martin’s detective figure, Challis, “the moon-drifted leprechaun,” is a questionable character, par excellence. All this, plus Southerly’s usual feast of the best new poetry and fiction from Australia and New Zealand, and reviews of the same.
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FORUM
Reviews and Responses to Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. Martin Langford et al
INTERVIEW
Prithvi Varatharajan and Mike Ladd, on Poetica
STORIES
Alex Nelson, A Worm and a Girl
Leon Ward, Everybody Tunnel-Ling
POETRY
Thomas Brami, My Confession: An Autobiography By Mikhail Gorbachev
Alison Flett, 5 Ways To Dream A Country / A Map Of Belonging
Noel Jeffs, Keeping Your Country Queer
Lawrence Levy-Atkinson, Still There’s the Rain
REVIEWS
Megan Nash, of Nicholas Birns, Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead
Jonathan Dunk, Of Carmel Bird, Family Skeleton*
Ella Skilbeck-Porter, of Sian Vate, End Motion/Manifest, and Zoe Dzunko, Selfless
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