Protected: Long Paddock for Southerly 81.1: Ireland and Other Islands
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Long Paddock for Southerly 81.1: Ireland and Other Islands
This issue is a Festschrift for Professor Elizabeth McMahon, to honour her service to Southerly as its editor from 2008 to 2022. Alongside her dedication to Southerly, Professor McMahon has also long served the Irish community in Australia in myriad ways. It is fitting then that this issue also focusses on Ireland, engaging with our contemporary understandings of Ireland and Irishness and their entanglements with Australian life. This issue asks, what does it mean to be Irish, or of Irish heritage, or to be interested in Irishness, while living and working in Australia on unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
The Reef is Not a Poem
by Nicolette Stasko When I began to think about a topic for my first post I realised that I had an opportunity to write about something I am passionate about but don’t usually get to address: conservation and the environment as represented by the natural phenomenon of the Great Barrier Reef. Readers who are familiar with my poetry or my book Oyster: from Montparnasse to Greenwell Point, would not find my interest surprising. For me, like many poets (including Judith Wright, whose work is also a main focus of this piece), the land and especially the sea is a ‘manifestation…