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Joy’s list 2025 76.5 × 56 cm pastel on velvet paper Courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney Joy’s list features in the exhibition And I would say these things to no one but you at Heide Museum of Modern Art. In these works, Kontis redraws modernist artist Albert Tucker’s intriguing photographic recordings of the intimacies of his daily life in the 1940s. Exaggerating irregularities such as blurred focus and existing folds in the paper support, her work registers aspects of the original chemical prints and physical documents that may otherwise remain unnoticed.…

Adam Aitken was born in London, spent his early childhood in Thailand and Malaysia, then settled in Sydney. He co-edited Contemporary Asian Australian Poets in 2013. His memoir One Hundred Letters Home (2016) was listed for the ALS Gold Medal. Archipelago (2018) was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He received the Patrick White Award in 2021. His latest book is Revenants (2022). The Eviction Coming home from work, I felt its weight,the shadow of their mezuzah, the imprintwhere the paint was brighter, anda faint turmeric tingeof a woman who lived here,of the grandmother’s hand, imprintson the door she said was hers,this place, this door. Its pricebeyond the fading recompense of lyricor payback elegies of memory,or money-is-a-kind-of-poetry capital.Her size and weight,her door…

Oliver Driscoll is the author of the collections I Don’t Know How That Happened (2020) and White Clouds Blue Rain (2021). He lives in Melbourne. A School Story CHRIS AND MAX WOULD STAND on the halfway line talking, Chris in the blue of Stratford, Max in the red and white of PCYC. They were in the second division, but Chris thought that Max could easily play for a first-division team. He was a fast centre-forward, and whenever the ball came shooting across the halfway line into that wide open half, it was everything Chris could do to stop him, to tap the ball away, before Max had the chance to slot it past the keeper. When this wasn’t happening, when the ball was trapped in the other half, they would…

Ceridwen Dovey writes fiction (Only the Astronauts; Only the Animals; Mothertongues; Blood Kin) and creative non-fiction (On J.M. Coetzee; Inner Worlds Outer Spaces). She’s the recipient of an Australian Museum Eureka Award for her science writing, and co‑founder of The Archival Futures Film Collective. She is a Macquarie University Research Fellow and a Powerhouse Artistic Associate. A short film based on ‘Earth and the Exoplanets’ is in progress. ASTRONOMERS HAVE ALWAYS SUSPECTED that there might be planets outside our solar system, ever since they realised that stars are other suns – and that other suns most likely have their own planets. Yet the scientific evidence that exoplanets actually exist is still fresh, only a couple of decades old. In the mid-1990s exoplanets began to be discovered, at first in a…

Lucy Van writes poetry and criticism. Her poetry collection, The Open (2021), was listed for the Stella prize. With Anne Maxwell, her new book is Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views (2024). Her forthcoming title is MATERIAL (2025). She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches literary studies. 1. The Art of Seduction I AM STANDING WITH MY EAR pressed to my security screen door. On the other side of the door, about thirty people are standing in the driveway that I share with my neighbours, who are at this moment selling their house by auction. I like my neighbours enough – enough to tell them certain things I’m doing, but not enough to tell them that I’m listening to the sale of…

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George Mouratidis is a poet, researcher and translator. He is a Fellow of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne where he is completing a monograph Becoming Beat. He is also co-founder of the CALD literary magazine Kalliope X. His debut poetry collection is Angel Frankenstein (2018). threads john reads a-z of football as we all sit & watch threads together on channel 9 / mum fidgets, leaves halfway / krits-krits of sunflower seeds / panicked young man on screen shelters from flash-blast under his cortina / i rub my arm imagining worst sunburn ever, layers of blackened pastry, tiny plastic cowboys melted w/ cigarette lighter dripping gloopy-limbed onto backyard concrete ~~~ tin lunchbox buckled in the blast. then, charred clog. then, close-up of melted candle-wax zoomed-out to…

Elvira Navarro has published both novels and short stories. Her novel A Working Woman addresses the impact of the economic crisis on the contemporary female experience. Her collection of short stories, Rabbit Island, was nominated for the 2021 National Book Award for Foreign Literature. ‘The Washing Machine’ is translated from her most recent collection of stories, La Sangre Está Cayendo Al Patio (Blood is Dripping onto the Courtyard). Christina MacSweeney is an award-winning literary translator. She has translated works by such authors as Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaña París, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Elvira Navarro, Julián Herbert and Jazmina Barrera. WHEN SHE WAS ADDING A CAPFUL of Flor, she saw a dark liquid in the softener compartment. She thought it was dirty water. It didn’t occur to her that the rust-coloured liquid…

Fiction Lee Lai Cannon Raaza Jamshed What Kept You? Antigone Kefala Fiction Michael Farrell The Victoria Principle Beverley Farmer The Seal Woman Brian Castro Chinese Postman Xi Xi Mourning a Breast (trans. Jennifer Feeley) Beverley Farmer Alone Anne de Marcken It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over Jonathan Buckley Tell Max Easton Paradise Estate Nicholas Jose The Idealist Pip Adam Audition Sanya Rushdi Hospital Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Non-fiction The Paris End EXCLUSIVE! Nikos Papastergiadis John Berger and Me Bonny Cassidy Monument Poetry Ender Başkan Two Hundred Million Musketeers Eunice Andrada Kontra Keri Glastonbury 51 Alterities Grace Yee Joss Antigone Kefala Poetry Šime Knežević In Your Dreams Suneeta Peres da Costa The Prodigal Hasib Hourani rock flight Judith Beveridge Tintinnabulum Kate Fagan Song in the Grass Manisha Anjali Naag Mountain Kate…

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