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'By the time you hold this issue of Island, we'll be collating and considering the responses to our first major survey of readers in a number of years. The online survey closes on 1 September 2018 but if you miss this chance to share your views, you're welcome to contact us by email because we value the feedback of our readers and we want to create the magazine you want to read. As former editor Matthew Lamb wrote in Island 142, 'it is readers who close the circuit created by writers and their works, thereby sparking the light of literature. It is readers who turn writers into authors, and their words into essays. into fiction, into poetry' (Vern Field : Introduction)
Contents
- Barangaroo Capriccioi"The sandstone blocks are large and rough-hewn,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Jesus Likes Radioheadi"Jesus is crawling through the desert listening to Justin", single work poetry (p. 15)
-
This Farming Life,
single work
prose
'I rise early each morning to go to work but my work is not that of the office or commute. It is one of the ancients of the Sean-nos (old way) for I am a farmer. It is still winter and while the days are short my work is long for all our animals are inside now, birthing, living, eating, and some, though battle as I might, dying.' (Introduction)
- Theatrei"When the lace monitor sidled into the still", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Zucchini Flowersi"Opening the petals might not require", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Winter Cave, single work short story (p. 30-35)
- Cod Opening, single work short story (p. 48-55)
- Before or Afteri"At the threshold of a familiar", single work poetry (p. 62)
- Kitei"My father was a mover", single work poetry (p. 63)
- Here to Help, single work short story (p. 70-74)
- Maori Chief Hoteli"When we let the hotel", single work poetry (p. 75)
- Missed Firei"First train", single work poetry (p. 75)
- Honfleur, single work short story (p. 82-87)
- Instagram, single work prose (p. 88-97)
- Phonei"It could shatter darkness, set us bolt upright", single work poetry (p. 98)
- Cuckoo Clocki"It emerged from the Black Forest,", single work poetry (p. 99)
- Big Night Out, single work short story (p. 100)