2007

SOUTHERLY 1-2 / 2007

Elizabeth Webby



Margaret Harris Professing Australian Literature: The Webby Way • Elizabeth Stead I Give You a Day • Robert Dixon Australian Literature-International Contexts • Virginia Blain Black Joy • Debra Adelaide no endings no endings no • John Tranter Winter Maps; Hôtel de Ville • Susan Hampton The Still Dark • Ian Henderson Australian Letters in the London Eye • Ken Stewart Antipodean Topsy-Turvy - Gilbert and Sullivan in the Australian Colonies • Judith Beveridge Inlet; Tackle; Delancey • Pat Skinner Weeping Cedar Woman • Winifred Weir Mostly About Rain • J. S. Harry Thales of the Pre-Socratics; Braid's Book • Lydia Wevers Blow the Wind Westerly - Reading Australia in New Zealand • Julieanne Lamond Rosa Praed's readership: in search of an Australian audience • Gina Mercer Dance Domestic; Our Frequency • Lesley Walter Painting a landscape; 'Til death do them part • Jane Sloan Counting the Hours • Nora Krouk Portrait of a Poet • Muriel Stone In Front of the Telly • David Brooks Charles Harpur and the Warp: Strange Happening in "The Creek of the Four Graves" • Penny van Toorn Wild Speech, Tame Speech, Real Speech? Written Renditions of Aboriginal Australian Speech, 1788–1850 • MTC Cronin from Ritual Grammar: The Stain of Words; Writing Time; The World Was Created • Jill Hellyer The Deal • Sue Woolfe Talking to the Desert • Dennis Haskell Nights of Average Nerves • Anita Callaway The Transit of Venus: From Stone Sculpture to Living Statue, from Classical Goddess to Fairy Godmother • Elizabeth McMahon The Centaur and the Cyborg: Abject Becoming on the Colonial Frontier • Maggie Joel A Sticky End • Greg McLaren Self-portrait with pain relief; Siding • Elizabeth Allen chameleon; the afternoon is • Susanne Gervay Sisters • Rosemary Raiche The Alchemist • Katherine Gallagher from Into the Surreal: Biodiversity; Seeing the Hand; Nostalgia Sonnet • Philip Butterss "Parnassus slope": C. J. Dennis's first years in Victoria • Helen Hewson Shaw Neilson and the Ladies' College, Melbourne • David McCooey Evening; Heaven; More Mutant Proverbs • Hilarie Lindsay The Story behind The Washerwoman's Dream • Anita Heiss Thoughts; Token Kooris: Blackfellas for hire • Dennis Haskell Kenneth Slessor in the Modernist Bush • Fran de Groen Made in England, "The Road from Singapore" and I Think I'll Live: Reflections on mid-twentieth century National Identity • Susan Sheridan Gentlemen's Agreements: Southerly's First Editors • Michael Brennan Ojizosan; A broken language; Sky was sky; Old house • Jane Gibian Made for breaking; Do not detach this slip • Vivan Smith Nettie Palmer's Fourteen Years: An Afterword • Nicole Moore An Interview with Betty Roland • Leigh Dale "Only Scratch the Surface": Reading Franklin's Cockatoos • Margaret Bradstock The James Craig, 1874– • Jill Jones The Spare Winter; From Janet's house • Susan Lever Surviving as a Writer: the Careers of the 1970s Generation • Noel Rowe Border Security • Brigid Rooney Desert hauntings, public interiors and national modernity: from The Overlanders to Walkabout and Japanese Story • Judith Barbour The comic poetry of suffering: Kate Grenville's The Secret River • Nicolette Stasko December 31

SOUTHERLY 3 / 2007

China China

Focussed about a fascinating miscellany of Australian/Chinese literary relations, this issue contains such gems, wrangles and enter­tain­ments as a set of hitherto un­pub­lished letters from Ezra Pound to ANU’s once Sinologist and now famous Mongolist Igor de Rachewiltz, an “accidental” forum on a notorious poem of Ouyang Yu, Andrew Burke on living in “the filthiest city in the world”, Zijie Pan on Alex Miller’s The Ancestor Game, and some stunning meditations by such major contemporary Chinese writers as Yu Jian and Bei Ling. It also contains an account of Kevin Bannon’s conversations with Pablo Neruda, a reprint of Frank Moorhouse’s first published story from a 1957 issue, plus Southerly’s usual menu of the best in new Australian writing, from Kevin Hart, Judith Beveridge, Michelle Bakar, Fiona McGregor, Kate Lilley and many others, and a moving tribute to the magazine’s late co-editor Noel Rowe, himself an anthologist of Australian writing about China and South-east Asia.

Noel Rowe TRIBUTE
Bernadette Brennan Noel Rowe (1951–2007)
Margaret Bradstock Moon over Purnululu
Greg McLaren Australian ravens
Lesley Walter Untitled

Poetry
Kevin Hart The Mouse, Inside, Dark Room
Craig Powell Santa Claus on the Cross
Judith Beveridge The Trawlers, Joe
Yu Jian four poems (Trans. by Simon Patton)
Charles Baudelaire Rêve parisien (Trans. by John Kinsella)
Kate Lilley Drafty, Artemisia countrified, Pet
Andrew Burke Raw, Linfen Going Out Number, The Next Poem
Deborah Adamson William
Jean Kent The Danish-Berber Opera
Niobe Syme Out of my head
Iain Britton Fish don’t care
David Prater Imaginary Cities: Capa —
Tricia Dearborn Come in, lie down
Cassandra O’Loughlin The Bogong Moth

Fiction
Michelle Bakar The Gentleman’s Outpost
Frank Moorhouse The Young Girl and the American Sailor
Zijie Pan Good night
Michael Crane Dolphin

Documents
Kevin Bannon Conversations with Pablo Neruda
Ezra Pound Letters to Igor de Rachewiltz (Introductory note by David Brooks)
Frank Moorehouse Fifty years on: notes on a story: my writing of “The Young Girl and the American Sailor”

Essays
Yu Jian Louangprabang 2002 (Trans. by Simon Patton)
Bei Ling Choice: A Fated Tragedy (Trans. by Charles Wang and Bei Ling)
Andrew Burke Living in “the Filthiest City in the World”
Zijie Pan The Chinese Man in The Ancestor Game
Ouyang Yu Where Have All the hua Gone: individuals ejected from Australian history
Fiona McGregor Eleven Lives
Ouyang Yu Book-digging to China, to a kind of origin
Bei Ling The Legacy of Joseph Brodsky (Trans. by Denis Mair and Bei Ling)
Jan Dean Rapt in Wrapping
Yu Jian Kampuchea 2003 (Trans. by Simon Patton)
Noel Henricksen Allusion in Robert Dessaix’s Night Letters

Letters
Phillip A. Ellis
Michael John Paton

Reviews
Michael Brennan of Naikan Tao and Tony Prince, eds, Eight Contemporary Chinese Poets
Judith Beveridge of Noel Rowe: Touching the Hem
Susan Lever of Ouyang Yu, Bias: Offensively Chinese/Australian, a collection of essays on China and Australia
Robin Gerster of Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith, eds, Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry
rae desmond jones of Greg Lockhart, The Minefield
Greg McLaren of Laurie Duggan, The Passenger and Caroline Caddy, Esperance