Antipodes

Antipodes Volume 35, Issues 1 & 2 (June/December 2021)

From the Editor

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American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Creative Writing Competition Awards

Drifters — Rosanna E. Licari (Poetry Winner)

The Hero of My Bones — Susan M. Hancock (Fiction Winner)

Beach Road — Catherine Padmore (Honorable Mention in Fiction)

Special Section on the Work of Christos Tsiolkas
Guest editor: Barbara M. Hoffmann

Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas: Rage, Discomfort, Disgust . . . and Beauty
Barbara M. Hoffmann

The Politics of Disgust: Form and Feeling in Christos Tsiolkas’s Merciless Gods
Keyvan Allahyari and Tyne Daile Sumner

Class, Rage, and Staging the Revolution: Tsiolkas’s Theater
David Burton, Jessica Gildersleeve, and Kathryn Kelly

“The Sopranos Meets The Real Housewives of Orange County”: The Publishing of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap in the United States
Per Henningsgaard

Tsiolkas in the Classroom: Confronting Our Discomfort
Jessica Gildersleeve, Kate Cantrell, Nycole Prowse, Sharon Bickle, and India Bryce

Special Section on Book History and Publishing Studies in Australia and New Zealand
Guest editor: Per Henningsgaard

Introduction: Social Hour for Australia’s Scholars of Book History and Publishing Studies
Per Henningsgaard

The Miles Franklin Literary Award: Investigating the Value of a Local Prize on the Global Stage
Airlie Lawson and Catriona Mills

Australian Authors in the House of William Morrow: Writing Good Commercial Fiction for the US Market
Roger Osborne and David Carter

Measuring “Diversity” in Australian Publishing: An Overview and a Proposal
Jodie Lea Martire

Aura and Access: Toward a New Methodology for Book Exhibitions in the Digital Realm
Julia C. Rodwell and Anna Welch

Peripatetic Printers of Early Nineteenth-Century Australia: The Interconnected Stories of Howe, Bent, and Fawkner
Jocelyn Hargrave

Imagining Mallee Readers: Literary Infrastructures of a Regional Community
Brigid Magner and Emily Potter

Poetry
Cold Tea at the End of August — Kristian Radford

pop art — Feana Tu‘akoi

3.8 in Otautahi — Gregory Dally

Questions Raised by Australian A-frames — Samantha Johnson

Talking back — Ouyang Yu

Needs — S. C. Flynn

Blister — Joel Deane

1983 — Rachael Mead

Self-Portrait with Moreton Bay Figs: Melbourne. 26.9.2021 — Susan Fealy

6.3.8 (37) (Darkin River, Fire Dam) — Catherine Noske

Turning my back on Australians overseas — Brendan Ryan

Outskirts — Angela Costi

Annulus — Anne Elvey

The Key — Felicity Plunkett

Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Interval North — Dominique Hecq

Somebody’s Child — Jena Woodhouse

Genetic Drift — Rose Michael

K.J. — Geoff Goodfellow

Duplex — Stuart Barnes

In Transit —Frances Rouse

my father types me a note and in it writes “for the reasons given” rather than actually using the word depression — Paula Harris

Ribbon Kelp — Audrey Molloy

That Is Not My Telephone Ringing — Ben Hession

The black b-double — Tom Coverdale

The Tractor Job — B. R. Dionysius

To see an owl in the day, wisdom must come — Anne Casey

What I Was Looking For — David Adès

Creative Prose

Cheesecake — Anna Denejkina

What Remains — Denise O’Hagan

Eden — Luna Mrozik Gawler

From All Over...About Down Under
From France
Temiti Lehartel

From Offices and Living Rooms around the World
Barbara M. Hoffmann and Ann-Marie Blanchard

Reviews
Criticism

Geoff Rodoreda and Eva Bischoff, eds. Mabo’s Cultural Legacy — Rhonda Evans

Jessica Gildersleeve, ed. The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature — Geoff Rodoreda

Fiction

Christos Tsiolkas. 7½ — Richard Car

Amanda Lohrey. The Labyrinth — Eric Heyne

H. C. Gildfind. Born Sleeping — Farisa Khalid

Poetry

Diane Brown. Every Now and Then I Have Another Child — Brendan Kiernan

Lynley Edmeades. Listening In — Michaela Coplen

Elizabeth Morton. This is your real name — Gabriel Dunsmith

Abstracts

Contributors

Guidelines for Contributors