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Poetry Titillations

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Toby Fitch I’ve decided to compile a list of forthcoming Australian poetry titles to give readers and reviewers a gander at the goose that is 2012. It’s not exactly complete. Some publishers haven’t written back to me and others have been a bit peeky, too shy to bare all. And fair enough: they’re all independent. Not like those big publishing houses who don’t do poetry. Anyway, mine is a knee-length skirt of a list, covering new works by poets who haven’t released anything in a while, a few New & Selecteds and Collecteds, and some first books by emerging poets.…

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Adelaide launch at the Spirit Festival of Southerly 71.2 A Handful of Sand

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Please come to the Spirit Festival launch of Southerly 71.2 A Hand of Sand, with local writers and readers from the Nunga community. There will be some refreshments provided, and the issue will be sold at the special launch price of $25. Where: The Spirit Festival, Mullawirraburka Park (Rymill Park), Rundle Street When: 11:30am, Sunday February 26th 2012 Website: www.thespiritfestival.com

Monkeys and Leopards

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Toby Fitch I’m chuffed that Southerly has asked me to take on the role of poetry reviews editor. There are a couple of reasons for appointing a reviews editor dedicated to poetry: 1) to relieve some of the editing and commissioning burdens that fall on David Brooks, Elizabeth McMahon and Kate Lilley, and 2) to invigorate the poetry reviews section of the journal by commissioning more reviews. The aim now is to have as many new Australian poetry releases reviewed as possible. The most anticipated books will receive our attention, of course, but I also plan to expose readers of…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 72.1: Mid-century Women Writers

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Southerly 72.1 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. POETRY Susan Adams, The Donation Didier Coste, Anonymous of troy SHORT FICTION Nicola Themistes, Hierology REVIEWS Michelle Borzi on Peter Steele, The Gossip and the Wine and Dan Disney, and then when the Joseph Cummins on Alex Miller, Autumn Laing Laura Joseph on Amy T Matthews, End of the Night Girl Emma Wortley on S. D. Gentill, Chasing Odysseus Andrew J. Carruthers on Catherine Vidler, Furious Triangle Heather Taylor…

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Dinner

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Kate Livett Not a little fit, not a little fit sun sat in shed more mentally. Let us why, let us why weight, let us why winter chess, let us why way. … — Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons (1914). Utterly different from its use by Gertrude Stein in Modernist experimental poetry, ‘fit’ has become a pop culture word of the 2010s, meaning the ‘fit’ between product and consumer, between organisation and employee, between equally ridiculous celebrities. Give us some examples, you say? Okay. Some perfect ‘fits’: The Wiggles and small children. Apple computers and art/design students. Brad Pitt and Angelina…

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Please come to the launch of Southerly 71.2 A Handful of Sand: Words to the frontline

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Southerly is delighted to invite you to the launch for its latest issue, 71.2 A Handful of Sand: Words to the frontline. There will be readings, nibbles, and general bonhomie. Please join us! When: Thursday February 2nd, 5:30 for 6pm Where: Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building upstairs, University of Sydney Map: http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/oam/blaccess-r01.cfm?fld1=01 RSVP: Please use CONTACT US form Site: http://southerlylitmag.com.au//2012/01/15/a-handful-of-sand-words-to-the-frontline/ A Handful of Sand is an extraordinary editorial achievement by two of our finest poets, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Lionel Fogarty. This issue of Southerly brings to its reader a rich and striking cross-section of the poetry, fiction, essays and memoir of Australia’s…

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Operation Dumbo Drop – A Disney film

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Kate Livett There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic. Leslie Fielder.  Quotes from Quote Cosmos My first ever review was of Operation Dumbo Drop –…

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First 2012 bloggers – Kate Livett and Toby Fitch!

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Thank you, Angela Meyer, for your wonderful posts at the end of last year. Our bloggers for January are Southerly’s new reviews editors. Kate Livett is our Fiction and Prose Reviews Editor, and Toby is our Poetry Reviews Editor. Their bios are below.   Kate Livett wrote her PhD on Gertrude Stein and the fetishisms of Modernity. She lectured in English Literature and Communications for several years at UNSW and then several more at ACU. Kate has published in the areas of Modernism, Animal Studies and Cultural Studies, and is now enjoying a rest from teaching in her role as…

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Abstract extracts from my travel journal: June to August 2011

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Angela Meyer This post is partly a peek into my process. If you read more of my writing you may notice thoughts, imagery, themes popping up that originated from this trip and my recordings. But I like to think these carefully chosen ‘abstract extracts’ – deliberately taken out of context – form a little narrative of their own. Paris Cars and motorbikes honk, a man vomits into the bin and hobbles away. We are halfway around the world, we desperately need showers and we are happy. …the best part of the day, I think, was all the stairs and the…

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Subscribe to Southerly with PayPal!

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Did you miss the deadline for getting your Southerly Christmas subscriptions in? Well, never fear, you can now subscribe to Southerly online using your Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. Just click the appropriate link in the ‘Subscribe Online’ box on the right, and if you do this today, your subscription should arrive in time for Christmas. But it’s not just for Christmas – you can subscribe to Southerly online all year round.