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Alternative title:
Pearl
Issue Details:
First known date:
2019...
no.
30
2019
of
FourW
est. 1990
FourW New Writing
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'To mark the thirtieth issue of fourW we have given it the title Pearl, both because of the traditional anniversary jewel-signifier and as a notional literary link to the medieval allegory of the same name by the Gawain poet. While it may be drawing a long bow to claim that fourW thirty allegorises the relationship between humanity and the cosmos in a series of dream conversations, it seems to me that the poetry, fiction and script we have selected do indeed articulate, play with and apostrophise the writer's ideas of self, society and relationships in ways that emblematise existence and what might be termed 'truth'. We hope you'll see it as a pearler!' (David Gilbey, Editorial introduction)
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Christmas Dayi"The crows are already picking at bin scraps", single work poetry (p. 4)
- The Cowboy Who Could Not See the Colour Black, single work (p. 5-10)
- China Lovei"'one chopstick not much use without the other'", single work poetry (p. 11-13)
- Putting You through Now, Caller (1)i"'Five days to Lent -", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Putting You through Now, Caller (2)i"'Scarcely at home with friskiness'", single work poetry (p. 14)
- After the Surgeryi"In the morning", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- Snowi"Ten years into the long slow forgetting", single work poetry (p. 17)
- O Corpus Corpus Meum, single work short story (p. 18-24)
- Radiationi"The oncologist shows off", single work poetry (p. 25)
- A Party at the Retirement Villagei"for the 90th birthday of a veteran of a left-wing", single work poetry (p. 26)
- The Open Closeti"Don't tell your father", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- Two Imposters, single work short story (p. 29-36)
- Stolen Lifei"She wails", single work poetry (p. 37)
- In the Park, a Familyi"he is lying flat", single work poetry (p. 38)
- Walking Distance, sequence poetry (p. 38-41)
- In the Post Office, the Postmasteri"mr grumpy is taking the sun", single work poetry (p. 39)
- Reading the Pavementi"ITHAKA", single work poetry (p. 40)
- At the Wishing Welli"you and i and her", single work poetry (p. 41)
- Espingardai"I wonder whether Hemingway", single work poetry (p. 42)
- Equal Rights for Gay Whalesi"The navy-striped hatbands, the silly little ties", single work poetry (p. 43-45)
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