Antipodes Volume 37, Number 1 (June 2023)
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.
Volume 37, Issue 1 (June 2023)
From the Editor
About the Cover
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies & American Australian Association Winners of the 2024 Creative Writing Competition Awards
List for the Living—Ellen Van Neervan, Mununjali
X-ray—Anne Casey
Hebe’s Lament—Gay Lynch
Downtime—Gregory Dally
Essays
“First you go and form a Co”: Boundary Disputes in Patricia Grace’s “Ngati Kangaru”—Brigid Magner
“Do You Want to Get Rich or Do You Want to Stay Poor?”: Peter Carey’s “Exotic Pleasures,” the Romance of Space, and The War of the Worlds—Claire Corbett
“The last time I came here”: Insecure Renting and Unstable Temporality in Contemporary Australian Lyric Poetry—Ella Jeffery
Aboriginal Australian Writing and Student Resistance to Learning About Race: A “Take It Slant” Approach—Barbara M. Hoffmann
Poetry
The Gull-Cries of Dublin—Toby Davidson
Adapting Badiou—Michael Farrell
UMB LH928—Frances Rouse
Plausibly Blue—S. C. Flynn
Shame—Lorraine Gibson
Sun and Stars—Jessica Wilkinson
Disintegration, after Xu Bing’s Phoenix—Ion Corcos
Wind Farm on Dja Dja Wurrung Country—Amelia Walker
Polar Night—Alicia Sometimes
Wreck Creek Dawn—Ross Gillett
The Nails—Damen O’Brien
Ask—Aidan Coleman
Creative Prose
At First, She Fled—Emma Wilkins
All Boys’ Annual—Zoë Meager
Plain Street—Caroline Flood
Rock Wallaby: lightly . . . quietly—Sue Joseph
Liebesträume—Mitchell Welch
Black Snake Father—Neil Boyack
The Tide—Helen E. Crampton
Reviews
Criticism
Donna Coates. Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend: Australian Women’s War Fiction—Nicholas Birns
Beibei Chen. Memory and Identity in Contemporary Chinese-Australian Novels—Helen Jia (西貝)
Biography
Ann-Marie Priest. My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood—Jena Woodhouse
Fiction
Peggy Frew. Wildflowers—Marjorie Allison
Shankari Chandran. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens—Elizabeth Bolton
Chris Womersley. Ordinary Gods and Monsters—Audrey Coble
Amanda Lohrey. The Conversion—Lia Ferguson
George Haddad. Losing Face—Barbara M. Hoffmann
Gail Jones. Salonika Burning—Nancy Carol James
Robbie Arnott. Limberlost—Jennifer Tilbury
Creative Prose
Michael Jackson. The Paper Nautilus—Katherine Crane
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors