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Issue 16 – October 2014
Poetry
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Alyson Miller
Geoff Page
Subashini Navaratnam
Simon Anton Nino Diego Baene
Rajiv Mohabir
Heather Taylor Johnson
Sharon Kernot
Bronwyn Lang
Creative Non-fiction
Lyndhurst by Graham Akhurst
Writers In Detention
Open letter from ‘L,’ a mother who is to be deported
This Old Somali Mother by Hani Aden
Reviews/Essays
The Promise
by Tony Birch reviewed by Margot McGovern
The Secret Maker of the World
by Abbas El-Zein reviewed by Tessa Lunney
Heather Taylor Johnson reviews
Foreign Soil
by Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Last Candles of the Night
by Ian Bedford reviewed by Subhash Jaireth
Transactions of Belonging
by Jaya Padmanabhan reviewed by Jessica Faleiro
Stone Postcard
by Paul Magee reviewed by Bonny Cassidy
Lens Flare
by Benedict Andrews and
Peony
by Eileen Chong reviewed by Geoff Page
Weekend’s end
by Tim Wright reviewed by Chris Brown
Hani Aden is a Somali poet and refugee living in community detention in Sydney after spending eleven months on Christmas Island.
Photograph credit: Nicholas Olle