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An enormous thanks to Luke Carman for his excellent posts. This month our blogger is Marie Munkara. Her bio is below: Marie was born on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland and spent her early years growing up on Bathurst Island. Her first Novel Every Secret thing (UQP) won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the NT Book of the Year in 2010. Her two children’s books (Laguna Bay) Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo, were released in January 2014, and her second novel A Most Peculiar Act in April 2014. Marie has recently completed her memoir
JS Harry (1939-2015) JS Harry, one of Australian poetry’s “great transgressors”, described by Peter Porter in 2007 as “the most arresting poet working in Australia today”, died peacefully in her sleep Wednesday morning 20th May. It followed a long and debilitating illness, which she bore uncomplainingly with the good humour and grace that was so typical of her. Until her final days she continued to respond with wisdom, acuteness and appreciation to visiting family and friends. Born in South Australia, Harry spent most of her life in Sydney. Early on she began submitting her stories and poetry to children’s magazines
An enormous thanks to Anna Gibbs for her excellent posts. This month our blogger is Luke Carman. His bio is below. Luke Carman hails from the Sydney suburb of Liverpool and his first book of fiction, An Elegant Young Man is available from Giramondo. He is Associate Director of SWEATSHOP. Image courtesy of Sweatshop.
What does war mean to us now? With our knowledge of the long aftermath, what does it mean to be at peace? What is the difference between post-war and peace? How do peace and remembrance combine? How do we remember in the midst of war? 2015 is the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli, a key date for Australia amidst the global remembrance of the Great War. These global remembrances have expanded our understanding of World War I to recognise the range of involvement, the span of impact and the long aftermath. It has focussed us, too, on the cultures
The issue of Southerly titled The Naked Writer, published in March 2014, included outstanding essays, fiction and non-fiction, poetry and reviews on writer, the writing process and the links between life and work. It was so successful, in fact, that we are running a second edition. We want all aspects of ‘the writer laid bare’. We want to see the diction and contradictions, the flamboyant and the fragile, the vulnerable beneath the veneer. We want the naked, the new, and the unknown between the writer and their writing. Southerly is looking for essays and creative non-fiction, stories
Warmest of thanks must go to Andy Jackson for his posts over the last few weeks. This month our guest is Anna Gibbs. Professor Anna Gibbs teaches at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and writes across the fields of textual, media and cultural studies with a particular focus on affect theory, mimetic communication and fictocriticism. She has recently completed an ARC Discovery Grant with Maria Angel (UWS) and PI Professor Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago), entitled: “Creative Nation: writers and writing in the image culture”. The project includes the construction of ADELTA (the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and
The esteemed co-editor of Southerly, David Brooks, has just published a new book of poetry, Open House. This launches next week at the University of Sydney and both David and UQP would love you to come. The details are below – but RSVP to theconversation68@gmail.com.
A massive thank you to Sunil Badami for his excellent posts. This month, our blogger is Andy Jackson. His bio is below: Andy Jackson’s collection, Among the Regulars (papertiger 2010) was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Award. He won the 2013 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize with the thin bridge, which has recently been published. In 2010, he was an Asialink Resident at the University of Madras, Chennai, India, where he wrote poems exploring medical tourism, which resulted in the collection Immune Systems (Transit Lounge 2015). Andy has performed at literary events and arts
Southerly is holding a mega double-launch of Australian Dreams 1 and Australian Dreams 2 and we’d love you to come! There will be wine and food and excellent company. There will also be readings from our fabulous contributors. The details are below. See you there! When: Thursday March 12th, 6pm Where: Common Room, Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney Map: http://sydney.edu.au/maps/campuses/?area=CAMDAR RSVP: admin@southerlylitmag.com.au/
Southerly is looking for a small number of essays, literary non–fiction, fiction and poems to complete for its forthcoming issue titled Elemental. Please note: Work will be accepted until 20 March. Scholarly essays should follow MLA style. Please include ELEMENTAL in your submission title. Please submit online here. For more information on the issue, please see the blurb below: Issue 75.1 of Southerly is titled Elemental and is concerned with our experience of the elements in an era of climate change. The four elements of classical thought (earth, fire, water, air) align with what we now call four states of