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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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Long Paddock for Southerly 69.3: The Poetry Issue

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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