Tag: Kate Livett

Long Paddock for Southerly 73.1: The Political Imagination

Southerly 73.1 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 Peter Boyle, poems 7 and 8 from Towns in the Great Desert Danijela Kambaskovic, De Vita Sedentaria; Power πo, Hymie Adrienne Eberhard, The Hand Peter Sweet, Wall Flower jenni nixon, ships of dreams Barnaby Smith, Grazing, at Colo Heights Ross Donlon, Manly Boys STORIES Jane Downing, Chance Encounters Bronwyn Mehan, Down and Out in Alice Thomas Rye, An Ordinary Lunar Sea REVIEWS Ali Jane Smith on Corey Wakeling,…

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Dinner

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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Operation Dumbo Drop – A Disney film

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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Long Paddock for Southerly 71.1: Modern Mobilities

Southerly 71.1 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. ESSAYS Hoa Pham, Finding a place in the world – Vietnamese-Australian diasporic writing Ann Finegan, Liverpool Liverpool: The Skin of Translation Denise Formica, Mediation at Work: Australian Contemporary Fiction in Italian Translation POETRY Kate Lilley, Anniversary (Summer Vacation) John Carey, While they run the titles Lucy Wilks, Between Existence REVIEWS Jennifer Hamilton on Philippa Kelly, The King and I Kate Livett on Amanda Lohrey, Reading Madame Bovary Fiona Hile…

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