Tag: Australia

A Short History Of My Sentimental Education

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By Moreno Giovannoni A Sentimental Education My father who died a few weeks ago left me a legacy. He left me the Italian language and Italy and he left me a book. Working backwards through that list of three, the book he left buried inside me and I had to work hard to make it come out. The Italian language he left all around me although over time it became tarnished. But that’s OK. You can’t live in a foreign country like Australia all your life and not start to lose the pristine first language of your youth. Italy itself has…

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In Sickness and in Health

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 by Tara June Winch We’re home now; I’m at that vantage point, sorting boarding pass stubs into the recycling, shaking the sand out of bag linings, looking back at photographs, at diary entries without dates; looking back with the fogginess of a fresh return. Earlier this week in the AirBnb on the headland in Tamarama, I wrote: “Disney channel is on in the background. There is nowhere to hide on the road. There is no time, no length of quiet in my mind to write. We’ve been sick too, I couldn’t write then also, but I didn’t fight through that…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 74.3 Australian Dreams 2

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  The digital edition of this issue of Southerly is available to purchase via our GumRoad site. (The print edition has sold out).   * Please note: We apologise that most of the below links are incorrect. Unfortunately we have not yet managed to relocate the files for this issue of the Long Paddock, which went AWOL after our site went down in 2021. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have a copy so that we can reinstate it. ESSAYS AND MEMOIR Roberta Lowing, ‘After the Dream, the Awakening: 100 Years of Australian Celluloid Aspirations’ Donna Ward,…

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Long Paddock for Southerly 74.2: Australian Dreams 1

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A country where ‘it’s ok to be a bigot’. A country of refugees, refusing asylum. A country violating human rights, ignoring the pleas of the United Nations. A country ‘open for business’, with its trees, its coal, its uranium on the counter, its Reef and World Heritage areas on the line. How are your dreams of Australia going? Essays on the state of higher education, on ethnic minority, on the politics of fear; brilliant new work from major and emerging Australian writers; a troublesome feast of poetry, fiction, ideas and revelations, not all of them guaranteed to produce a good…

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