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Vierge Ouvrante, Opening Virgin

Amaryllis Gacioppo

We were up around five thousand metres when I started to vomit. Not the kind I was good at. The violent kind. The kind that left me hanging over the bowl, all strings of bitter yellow. That’s how you found me. On my hands and knees with my hair across my face.

Moving on U.p.p

Michael Winkler

In Ars Poetica, written around 19 BCE, Horace postulated ‘ut pictura poesis’. This formulation, abbreviated by scholars as u.p.p., has been chewed over in the intervening two millennia. Horace’s dictum translates to ‘as is painting so is poetry’. U.p.p. was a restatement of the claim by Simonides of Ceos that poema pictura loquens, pictura poema silens (poetry is a speaking picture, painting a silent poetry), but with the order of artforms reversed. How do you write a book? You have an idea, and it grows or strengthens and doesn’t go away. You do your research, or your imagining, and you […]

Australia in Three Books

Maks Sipowicz

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Mud

Elizabeth Humphrys

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The Whiff of Corruption

Ben Eltham

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Adventures in the new Sobriety

Yves Rees

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‘Never Ceded or Extinguished’: The Australian Sovereignty Debates

David Kearns

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Weathering, Tethering, Transforming

Catherine McKinnon

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Stepping Back Into the Past

Jenny Sinclair

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Glossatalgia

Subhash Jaireth

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Ecojustice Poetics and the Universalism of Rights

John Kinsella

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On the Beach, Out of Apathy

Chloe Ward

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