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I lost my way in the spaghetti junction of highway roadworks into which Melbourne's M2 currently devolves and found myself heading away from my destination, towards Footscray. The family car was so full of belongings - garden tools, blankets, artworks deemed too sentimentally precious to leave to the removalists- that I couldn't use the rear-view mirror. I doubled back, then tripled back, in an effort to recover the route. Eventually I abandoned the blue dot on Google Maps, always a crucial few hundred metres out when it comes to junction exits, and drove by a more Zen method: swapping to a compass app and heading due south, feeling my way to Port Melbourne and the ferry terminal.' (Geordie Williamson, Editorial introduction)
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Contents indexed selectively.
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The Writer Is Present,
Benjamin Law
(interviewer),
single work
interview
'In the wake of winning the Stella Prize for her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love, Heather Rose talked with Benjamin Law at a Hobart event about writing, reading, ghosts and Marina Abramovic.'
- The Munchian Oi"Yes, that was me in the revolutionary belt, Che replicated, hung around my hips;", single work poetry (p. 18)
- A Collective of Nounsi"We are naming the new acres,", single work poetry (p. 19)
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How Do You Make Them Let You Belong,
single work
autobiography
'Through the casual sexism inherent in Australian surfing culture, Erin Hortle reflects on identity and inclusion.'
- The Rescue, single work short story (p. 28-33)
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On Moving to Hobart,
single work
prose
'Damon Young and Ruth Quibell consider uprooting themselves and their children from their rental-to-rental life in Melbourne, and brace for the great leap southward.'
- The Tale of the Last Unicorn, single work short story (p. 64-65)
- River Water, single work short story (p. 66-83)
- Committee Meetingi"Gary leaves his genny on overnight", single work poetry (p. 84)
- Aubadei"Come near, let me", single work poetry (p. 85)
- 27 Materialisations of Sydney Cloudi"a tsunami (risen above an east coast low)", single work poetry (p. 86)
- Snow Geesei"The snow geese are landing as lightly as flakes.", single work poetry (p. 87)
- Box of Bones, single work short story (p. 100-104)
- An Essay Concerning Animals, single work short story (p. 114-116)
- Reading Deformityi"Khujjuttara was hunchbacked.", single work poetry (p. 119)
- The Xenotexti"any style of life", single work poetry (p. 120-121)