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'Issue 157 kicks off our 40th anniversary year. That’s a big milestone for a small, not-for-profit organisation. But rather than congratulating ourselves, we’d like to congratulate you. We couldn’t have got this far without you. Thank you for helping keep the Island journey alive.
'In this issue, we celebrate Island’s vision - of speaking both from and to the local, the national and the global - by reflecting on journeys, on the relationship between home and away, on the distinctiveness of place, and on islands near and far. There are new worlds to discover in every poem, every story, every page. As you explore between the covers of this issue, we hope you can carve out a little space and time to see the world differently.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: But never before had I heard of an island of clouds, an island so flat that ships might come upon it without knowing and run aground for no apparent reason, the explorers confronted by a place of unknown size. An island of sand across which the sky rolled and broke apart, lifted and sank, a place crowded with invisible spirits whose singing might one moment fill the air and then be gone. -Rodney Hall, The Island in the Mind (1996)
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Only literary material by Australian authors and within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Her Jungle Owlet and My Velvet by Pascale Petit
How Global Thinking Really Works by Sharon Rider
The Power of Voice by Peter Choraziak
Contents
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From the Island Team,
single work
essay
'On a wet, cold, June afternoon in Hobart in 1979, a new literary magazine, the brainchild of Andrew Sant and Michael Denholm, was launched - by Gwen Harwood, no less. What started life as The Tasmanian Review soon became Island magazine. And here we are, forty years on, with the same philosophy that the editors articulated in their first editorial...' (Introduction)
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Books Are the New Zucchini,
single work
essay
'What should we do with our books? Pete Hay considers the survival, or doom, of the personal library in an era of decluttering, decorative minimalism and downsizing.' (Article introduction)
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Burnt Out,
single work
autobiography
Liz Evans on bushfires and displacement.
- Melbourne, 1980, extract novel (p. 22-25)
- A Postscript, single work essay (p. 26-27)
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Nowhere's Folk,
single work
essay
'Researching a book about a 2002 murder, Laura Elizabeth Woollett travels to Norfolk Island, where she confronts the darkness in its complex present and notorious past.'
(Introduction)
- Islands and Ships, extract graphic novel (p. 36-41)
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The Intimacy of Daily Life : The News Is the Weather,
single work
prose
travel
'Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry travelled to Iceland to participate in the Printing Matter residency at Skaftfell in September 2018. They shared their reflections with Island...'
- The Holotype, single work short story (p. 56-60)
- Longingi"It is simple to dwell on loss,", single work poetry (p. 62)
- Michael Dransfield (1948-73)i"All those visions of the voyage", single work poetry (p. 63)
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Writing Across Place and Time,
single work
essay
'Rohan Wilson wrestles with the art and ethics of writing about the people and places most at risk from a changing climate.'
- What the Glass Holdsi"The shape of the glass", single work poetry (p. 70)
- Waiting Roomi"Your absence lays its shadow on my skin.", single work poetry (p. 71)
- 46, single work short story (p. 72-75)
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Is Everywhere the Same Size?,
single work
prose
travel
Dean Stevenson travels to 'other Tasmanias' (islands, isolated cities, peninsulas) exploring the relationship among music, place, community and other fragile things...'
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Journeys of Understanding,
single work
essay
'Madeline Wells is a young First Nations woman living on Tasmania's North West Coast. She participated in the 'Communicating: The Heart of Literacy' symposium held at Government House in Hobart in 2018, which engaged a range of people across the Tasmanian community with the state's low level of functional literacy. This is Madeline's literacy story, in her own words...'
- Self Examinationi"When Ken came home which was anywhere", single work poetry (p. 90)
- Ken Continues to Talk about Himself in the Third Personi"Ken said Ken went into the garden", single work poetry (p. 91)
- Reading Lessonsi"Ken tried reading", single work poetry (p. 92-93)
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From the Island Team
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 157 2019; (p. 6-7) 'On a wet, cold, June afternoon in Hobart in 1979, a new literary magazine, the brainchild of Andrew Sant and Michael Denholm, was launched - by Gwen Harwood, no less. What started life as The Tasmanian Review soon became Island magazine. And here we are, forty years on, with the same philosophy that the editors articulated in their first editorial...' (Introduction)
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From the Island Team
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 157 2019; (p. 6-7) 'On a wet, cold, June afternoon in Hobart in 1979, a new literary magazine, the brainchild of Andrew Sant and Michael Denholm, was launched - by Gwen Harwood, no less. What started life as The Tasmanian Review soon became Island magazine. And here we are, forty years on, with the same philosophy that the editors articulated in their first editorial...' (Introduction)