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Date: 2011-
Note: Founding editors Note: Brophy's involvement in the publication ceased in 1994.
Issue Details: First known date: 1980-1994... 1980-1994 Going Down Swinging
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Going Down Swinging is an annual literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry and comics and since ca. 2000 it has included spoken word items, all in the one book/CD package.

'Started in 1980 by Australian writers Myron Lysenko and Kevin Brophy, GDS has passed through the hands of various editors including Lauren Williams, Grant Caldwell, Lyn Boughton and Louise Craig, as well as a plethora of readers, typesetters, designers and proofreaders whose assistance has been invaluable in allowing GDS to survive for more than 20 years' (Going Down Swinging website: http://www.goingdownswinging.org.au/index.html ).

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Works about this Work

Interview : Kevin Brophy 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Antithesis , no. 26 2016; (p. 14-17)
'Kevin Brophy is a poet, essayist, and novelist, and founder of Going Down Swinging. He has performed and read widely in Melbourne and regional Victoria. Below is an interview with Kevin Brophy in regards to his new book of poetry This Is What Gives Us Time published by GloriaSMH Press earlier this year.' (Introduction)
Australian Literary Journals : Virtual and Social Benjamin Laird , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December vol. 36 no. 2011;
'Twenty years ago, if you published a quarterly literary journal, you could be certain what that meant: four issues a year. In 2003, when Anna Hedigan wrote her overview of journals and their web presence not much had changed. The publishers' attitude to the online space was that it was essentially a placeholder for the print journal.

Genevieve Tucker's review four years later suggested many of the journals were becoming more sophisticated, with more content online and greater interest in design. Relevant to the 2007 review, RMIT publishing announced in September that it had partnered to "produce a comprehensive digital archive of Australia's most iconic literary and cultural journals". This initiative will provide full archives for a number of Australian literary journals.' (Author's introduction)
Peripheral Visionaries : Australia's Independent Publishing Tradition Edgar Ray (fl. 2010-2011) (interviewer), Stuart Geddes (interviewer), 2010 single work interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 69 no. 4 2010; (p. 18-49)

This work is a collections of interviews with publishers of small independent magazines. All interviewees were asked a series of questions beginning with: 'Please describe your magazine's content.'

[Untitled] 1996 single work column
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 13. 1996; (p. 28)
God Preserve the Little Ones A. P. Riemer , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 April 1991; (p. 40)
Peripheral Visionaries : Australia's Independent Publishing Tradition Edgar Ray (fl. 2010-2011) (interviewer), Stuart Geddes (interviewer), 2010 single work interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 69 no. 4 2010; (p. 18-49)

This work is a collections of interviews with publishers of small independent magazines. All interviewees were asked a series of questions beginning with: 'Please describe your magazine's content.'

Australian Literary Journals : Virtual and Social Benjamin Laird , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December vol. 36 no. 2011;
'Twenty years ago, if you published a quarterly literary journal, you could be certain what that meant: four issues a year. In 2003, when Anna Hedigan wrote her overview of journals and their web presence not much had changed. The publishers' attitude to the online space was that it was essentially a placeholder for the print journal.

Genevieve Tucker's review four years later suggested many of the journals were becoming more sophisticated, with more content online and greater interest in design. Relevant to the 2007 review, RMIT publishing announced in September that it had partnered to "produce a comprehensive digital archive of Australia's most iconic literary and cultural journals". This initiative will provide full archives for a number of Australian literary journals.' (Author's introduction)
Small Magazines Join in Gift Pack Promotion 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 June 1989; (p. B4)
Around the Journals : Getting Words Together Kate Ahearne , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 71 1985; (p. 37-38)
The Site of Diversity Michael Guest , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1990-1991) no. 127 1990; (p. 35-36)

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

ISSN: 0157-3950
Subtitle:
Going Down Swinging : Anthology of Contemporary Writing (from number 12)
Frequency:
Annual
Continues:
1980 -
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