Volume 36, Issue 1 (June 2022)
From the Editor
About the Cover
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Creative Writing Awards 2022
Cemetery Carnival — Susanne Kennedy (Poetry Winner)
Siren — Catherine Padmore (Creative Prose Winner)
Shortlisted Works
Poetry
Boundary rider — William Fox
Night Stitches (A Cento) — Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
Precision — Robyn Rowland
Creative Prose
Flight — Shady Cosgrove
Beyond the Marram Grass — Georgia Rose Phillips
Featured Section on Disability
Guest editor: Liz Shek-Noble
Disability Representation in Australian Genre Fiction: Traditional Approaches and New Directions: Introduction — Liz Shek-Noble
No Stairs in the Bush? Disability and Australian Steampunk — Catriona Mills
Complicating Feature: Gender and Disability in Mad Max: Fury Road — Katie Ellis, Gwyneth Peaty, and Leanne McRae
Comatose “Vegetable” or Supercrip? Disability and Immobility in Patrick — Rebecca Johinke
The Zwergroman: Literary Dwarfs under the Australian Gaze — CA. Cranston
Climate Fiction and Disability: Enabled Futures in James Bradley’s Clade (2015) — Geoff Rodoreda
Wording Mute Posthumanism in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book — Iva Polak
Poetry
Watching — Andrew Lansdown
Kuaka — Nicola Andrews
But how did the hole get there? — Heather Taylor-Johnson
Peacock Culling, Whakatane — Debbie Lim
Scission — Kathy Tierney
Light sings — Lidija Šimkutė
Exhibition Grounds, Brisbane — Jean Kent
On the Sudden Appearance of Hay Sheds — John Kinsella
Customs — Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington
Reel — Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington
Without a safety net — Peter Bakowski
At Tunnel Beach — Brent Cantwell
What is Passing — Jill Jones
Without being able to tell if [the sun] was rising or setting — Liam Ferney
Creative Prose
Ball Gown Hydrology — John Kinsella
Homesick — Jane Crowley
Collision — Edmario Lesi
From All Over…About Down Under
From Brest
Laura Singeot
From Chicago
Brenda Machosky
Reviews
Criticism
Jean-François Vernay, ed. The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature — John Scheckter
Poetry
Robert Harris. The Gang of One, Selected Poems — Carolyn Stice
Fiction
Richard Flanagan. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams — Derek Hinckley
Michelle Cahill. Letter to Pessoa & Other Short Fictions — Nancy James
Ben Tarwin. Daylight — David Aubuchon
Hannah Kent. Devotion — María José Candela
Jennifer Down. Bodies of Light — Brianna Frentzko
William Lane. Past Life — Venus Fultz
Michelle Cahill. Daisy & Woolf — Matthew Hooton
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
