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'I’m very pleased that #UNFUNDED Issue 20 has arrived to celebrate a decade of Mascara.
'My thanks to all our contributors to the journal and to our editors, especially Jo Langdon and our intern, Zachary Ward.
'We remain grateful to the Australia Council and to the writing community for their strong support, past and present in social media and for our activism.
We are seeing new literary journals such as The Suburban Review, Pencilled-In and platforms such as Feminartsy emerge to support writers in the margins, suggesting the continuity of discourses necessary to sustain and foster diversity.
'A serious editorial is to follow here soon; meantime, we hope you enjoy some of the excellent work in these pages ….
Michelle Cahill
Editor
April 2017
(Editorial)
Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
- But Sundays by American poet Jessica Dionne
- At Least this Music and Shark Eye, February by American poet Jenna Cardinale
- Poems by American poet Darren C Demaree
- Offshore by UK writer Kay Sexton (Short story Prize winner)
- Hayley Scrivenor reviews We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
- Robert Wood reviews Annihilation of Caste by Ambedkar, introduced by Arundhati Roi
Contents
- Containeri"We conquer hearts like climbing", single work poetry
- Road Tripi"In the summer of 1995 my mother and I took", single work poetry
- Salt, Sugari"You never told me how it happened—bones trembling", single work poetry
- Home Is the Solace of Small Towns (Springbrook 1991)i"Eucalypts filter light like fly screen", single work poetry
- Orchid Avenuei"When my grandfather hears the first curlew", single work poetry
- The Wreck of the Heartlandi"You have chosen your compass for this voyage.", single work poetry
- The Honeyeatersi"“I am half a soul.”", single work poetry
- Dear Father,i"At morning –", single work poetry
- The Sun Was As Yellow As Her Wash Soapi"Sometimes I feel glad no one", single work poetry
- You Like The Smiths?i"there’s someone in class today who looks like", single work poetry
- Watching the Curry Van at Margaret River Mouthi"watchsprings", single work poetry
- Departi"Your death is a soft, green wing. Velvet spun by sun.", single work poetry
- Venetian Lullabyi"You gaze from your cot at the belltower", single work poetry
- Four Posteri"The frame was hung with tapestries. If he lay", single work poetry
- Five Untitled Prose Poemsi"Thoughts bother the night, they’re out of control. He tells himself the thing he’s thinking about", single work poetry
- So Much Fruit…i"You look so odd in this backyard", single work poetry
- Apples and Chilliesi"Last night I heard a woman talk about apples.", single work poetry
- In Australia, It Rotates Counter-Clockwisei"Plok! And a galaxy of yellow brown muck splashed into being. No longer pristine, the water in the", single work poetry
- Bleachers on Beaches, single work poetry
- White Meati"you are in no state to learn", single work poetry
