Antipodes Volume 36, Number 2 (December 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 2 (December 2022)
From the Editor
About the Cover
American Association For Australasian Literary Studies Creative Writing Awards 2023
Hinting at Decolonization—Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) (Indigenous Writer Poetry Prize)
The Perfume Pagoda: Travels with My Mother—Victoria Grieves Williams (Warraimaay) (Indigenous Writer Creative Prose Prize)
Mnemonics for Thelonious Monk—Gershon D. Maller (Poetry Prize)
Slippery Jacks—Jane Downing (Creative Prose Prize)
Beneath these surfaces (under my skin)—Dani S. Netherclift (Creative Prose Honorable Mention)
Essays
Politics of Patents and Biopiracy: Reading Inez Baranay’s Neem Dreams—Rahul Chaturvedi
A Landscape in Different Cloaks: Comparing the Deserts of Carpentaria and Voss—Lianda Burrows
The Challenges of Translating World Prison Literature: Investigating Omid Tofighian’s Contribution to No Friend but the Mountains—Jyhene Kebsi
“And You Just Happened to Find Me”: The Turn to the Transcendent Relational in Tim Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut—Bárbara Arizti
Ventriloquizing Animal Voices to Acknowledge Indigenous Voices in Sorensen’s The Lucky Galah—Joan Gordon
Poetry
Standard 8 Liminal Super 8 (Home Movies 1963–1969)—John Kinsella
75 / 57—Glenn D. McPherson
A robot discovers an overgrown garden, year 2121—Rae White
Hit—Les Wicks
Bop: Stop popping bluebottles!—Lili Pâquet
So, tell me what it is—Ray Liversidge
Between a paddock and a hayshed—Brendan Ryan
Doves—Judith Bishop
Bang!—Benjamin Dodds
Three Pears—Gayelene Carbis
Wadawurrung Country—Shoshanna Rockman
Melbourne Pantoum—Mark Mahemoff
Creative Prose
When Was Our Last Quarrel?—Ouyang Yu
Ready—Ashley Goldberg
The Citizen—Sam J. Mayne
The Ward—Amy Fairall
Reviews
Criticism
Tanya Dalziell. Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics; and Anthony Uhlmann, ed. Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction—Peter D. Mathews
John Scheckter. Major Fitz-Gerald and the Matter of War: An Anzac Archive—Christopher Lee
Martin Edmond. Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days 1974–1980—Sally Rafson
Poetry
Kevin Densley. Please Feed the Macaws . . . I’m Feeling Too Indolent—James Roderick Burns
Niki Tulk. O.—Eric-Alain Parker
Anne Casey. the light we cannot see—K. J. Janeschek
Creative Prose
Michael Wilding. The Midlands and Leaving Them—David C. Muller
Felix Calvino. Young Love and Other Stories—Summer Dorr
Jock Serong. The Settlement—Patrick Barney
Robert Drewe. Nimblefoot—Aaron Salzman
Kate Grenville. Restless Dolly Maunder—Richard Carr
Drama
Leah Purcell. The Drover’s Wife—Cade Yongue
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors