Antipodes Volume 36, Number 1 (June 2022)
The official publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Antipodes is published in June and December of each year. The journal welcomes critical essays on any aspect of Australian and New Zealand literature and culture, and comparative studies are especially encouraged. Additionally, Antipodes publishes short fiction, excerpts from novels, drama, and poetry written by Australian and New Zealand authors.
The official publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Antipodes is published in June and December of each year. The journal welcomes critical essays on any aspect of Australian and New Zealand literature and culture, and comparative studies are especially encouraged. Additionally, Antipodes publishes short fiction, excerpts from novels, drama, and poetry written by Australian and New Zealand authors.
Antipodes Volume 36, Issue 1 (June 2022)
From the Editor
About the Cover
American Association For Australasian Literary Studies Creative Writing Awards 2022
Cemetery Carnival — Susanne Kennedy (Poetry Winner)
Siren — Catherine Padmore (Creative Prose Winner)
Shortlisted Works
Poetry
Boundary rider — William Fox
Night Stitches (A Cento) — Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
Precision — Robyn Rowland
Creative Prose
Flight — Shady Cosgrove
Beyond the Marram Grass — Georgia Rose Phillips
Featured Section on Disability
Guest editor: Liz Shek-Noble
Disability Representation in Australian Genre Fiction: Traditional
Approaches and New Directions: Introduction — Liz Shek-Noble
No Stairs in the Bush? Disability and Australian Steampunk — Catriona Mills
Complicating Feature: Gender and Disability in Mad Max: Fury Road — Katie Ellis, Gwyneth Peaty, and Leanne McRae
Comatose “Vegetable” or Supercrip? Disability and Immobility in Patrick — Rebecca Johinke
The Zwergroman: Literary Dwarfs under the Australian Gaze — CA. Cranston
Climate Fiction and Disability: Enabled Futures in James Bradley’s Clade (2015) — Geoff Rodoreda
Wording Mute Posthumanism in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book — Iva Polak
Poetry
Watching — Andrew Lansdown
Kuaka — Nicola Andrews
But how did the hole get there? — Heather Taylor-Johnson
Peacock Culling, Whakatane — Debbie Lim
Scission — Kathy Tierney
Light sings — Lidija Šimkutė
Exhibition Grounds, Brisbane — Jean Kent
On the Sudden Appearance of Hay Sheds — John Kinsella
Customs — Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington
Reel — Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington
Without a safety net — Peter Bakowski
At Tunnel Beach — Brent Cantwell
What is Passing — Jill Jones
Without being able to tell if [the sun] was rising or setting — Liam Ferney
Creative Prose
Ball Gown Hydrology — John Kinsella
Homesick — Jane Crowley
Collision — Edmario Lesi
From All Over...About Down Under
From Brest — Laura Singeot
From Chicago — Brenda Machosky
Reviews
Criticism
Jean-François Vernay, ed. The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature — John Scheckter
Poetry
Robert Harris. The Gang of One, Selected Poems — Carolyn Stice
Fiction
Richard Flanagan. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams — Derek Hinckley
Michelle Cahill. Letter to Pessoa & Other Short Fictions — Nancy James
Ben Tarwin. Daylight — David Aubuchon
Hannah Kent. Devotion — María José Candela
Jennifer Down. Bodies of Light — Brianna Frentzko
William Lane. Past Life — Venus Fultz
Michelle Cahill. Daisy & Woolf — Matthew Hooton
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors