AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Set up an RSS feed
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Antipodes back issues
|
|
Colombo: Day Leave.(Poem)
December 1, 2008...
Colombo: Day Leave
His pockets bulged. The city
crowded round--the fat bats
squawking over the dusty racecourse,
the kassipu brewers, the hawkers
spitting betel
tubercular in gutters.
The pennies fell his way, that day,
his debts paid...
The still point.(Short story)
December 1, 2008... Some scenes sizzle themselves into your brain without the benefit of a camera.
The doctor is looking at me carefully. There are pale rings around her irises.
Look in the eyes, you can always tell, said my sister, Gemma. Iris rings are a sure sign of too much salt... if they can't...
If I Stop.(Poem)
December 1, 2008...
If I Stop
When the unknown feeling from the hinterland
came on the wings of pop, I would shut my eyes,
let the tingling spread over my scalp, and hope
that this time it would last long enough to turn
life inside out, as it must, I felt, one day.
Did I really...
Swank.(Poem)
December 1, 2008...
Swank
(for J & J)
The City Cat's a vaporetto;
the river is a grand canal.
We zig politely, wharf to wharf,
past mansions just a tad banal
although they smile there well enough,
contented on their ancient banks.
They're not John Ruskin's...
"Opportunistic transpositions and Elisions": Roger McDonald's The Ballad of Desmond Kale; or, the fiction question: who owns stories?(Critical essay)
December 1, 2008... THE "MAKING A FICTION OF HISTORY" PANEL AT THE 2007 Sydney Writers Festival included award-winning novelist, Roger McDonald, and renowned historian and public intellectual, Inga Clendinnen. Given Clendinnen's well-publicized attack on the "opportunistic transpositions and elisions" (16) of...