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Island magazine, Issue 154

Island magazine, Issue 154

Andy Kissane
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“By the time you hold this issue of Island, we’ll be collating and considering the responses to our first major survey of readers in a number of years. The online survey closes on 1 September 2018 but if you miss this chance to share your views, you’re welcome to contact us by email because we value the feedback of our readers and we want to create the magazine you want to read. As former editor Matthew Lamb wrote in Island 142, ‘it is readers who close the circuit created by writers and their works, thereby sparking the light of literature. It is readers who turn writers into authors, and their words into essays, into fiction, into poetry.’

In this issue of Island, we’re delighted to include two new poems from David Malouf. These poems will form part of Malouf ’s forthcoming collection, An Open Book, to be published by UQP in October. This is a joy and privilege for us, and a great credit to the efforts of our Poetry Editor, Sarah Holland-Batt.

In my role at Island, it is always fascinating to draw together the material sourced by our four specialist editors. When I find interesting connections in the collection, I wonder if I am simply a pattern seeking creature, imagining associations to make sense of what may be random yet serendipitous. My deep scepticism of the esoteric makes it hard for me to believe there could be some other strange unseen force at work that brings these related ideas together. Whatever the cause, there are definitely some rich linkages in this issue of Island.

Editor-at-large Geordie Williamson brought us a short essay by Irish farmer and writer John Connell. John studied at the University of Technology Sydney, worked as a journalist in Australia, spent time in Canada, and more recently returned to his family farm in Ireland. He credits David Malouf as a profound influence on his writing, and names him as his mentor. I’m thrilled that the two should be featured together.

Maria Takolander’s poem ‘Phone’ took me back to a style of telecommunications so different from that now enjoyed by my children – where my adolescent conversations on the single household cord-bound landline were strictly time limited and excruciatingly public at the ‘telephone table’ in the centre of the family home. Jeremy Chambers’s story ‘Big Night Out’ could be set at almost any time in my lifespan, except for the conspicuous lack of mobile phones pushing it back at least a couple of decades. Emma Yearwood takes the phone on a different journey in her contemporary, sensitive reflection on capturing life via smartphones and displaying filtered self-representations on social media.

Reading the stories ‘Big Night Out’, ‘Cod Opening’ and ‘Honfleur’, I also reflected on different ways in which male characters position a female ‘other’. And the breathless ‘swirl’ of ‘Honfleur’ is an interesting juxtaposition to the pacy monologue of ‘Here to Help’. The loss of a husband in ‘Here to Help’ forms a counterpoint to a different treatment of a similar absence in Krissy Kneen’s extract from her forthcoming novel Wintering, soon to be released by Text Publishing.

My fascination with connections and relationships could create an almost infinite web, but I’m sure that you’ll enjoy making your own rich associations as you browse the wealth of ideas, motifs and styles in this issue.”

-Vern Field, Introduction, Island 154

ESSAYS
The Hated Hipster - Nina Cullen
This Farming Life - John Connell
I Love, I Slay, And Am Content - Damon Young
Widget - Adrian
The M Window - Elizabeth Flux
Instagram - Emma Yearwood


ART
Welcome Territory - Selena de Carvalho
Crawl Me Blood - Halcyon Macleod and Willoh S Weiland
Double Enigma - Jacobus Capone

FICTION
Winter Cave - Krissy Kneen
Cod Opening - Wayne Marshall
Here to Help - Jenny Sinclair
Honfleur - John Saul
Big Night Out - Jeremy Chambers

POETRY
Barangaroo Capriccio - Andy Kissane
Jesus Likes Radiohead - Michael Farrell
Theatre / Zucchini Flowers - Anthony Lawrence
Before or After / Kite - David Malouf
Maori Chief Hotel / Missed Fire - Peter Rose
Phone / Cuckoo Clock - Maria Takolander
Language
English
Pages
107
Publisher
Island Magazine Inc.
Release
August 28, 2018
ISBN 13
9780648271925

Island magazine, Issue 154

Andy Kissane
4.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
“By the time you hold this issue of Island, we’ll be collating and considering the responses to our first major survey of readers in a number of years. The online survey closes on 1 September 2018 but if you miss this chance to share your views, you’re welcome to contact us by email because we value the feedback of our readers and we want to create the magazine you want to read. As former editor Matthew Lamb wrote in Island 142, ‘it is readers who close the circuit created by writers and their works, thereby sparking the light of literature. It is readers who turn writers into authors, and their words into essays, into fiction, into poetry.’

In this issue of Island, we’re delighted to include two new poems from David Malouf. These poems will form part of Malouf ’s forthcoming collection, An Open Book, to be published by UQP in October. This is a joy and privilege for us, and a great credit to the efforts of our Poetry Editor, Sarah Holland-Batt.

In my role at Island, it is always fascinating to draw together the material sourced by our four specialist editors. When I find interesting connections in the collection, I wonder if I am simply a pattern seeking creature, imagining associations to make sense of what may be random yet serendipitous. My deep scepticism of the esoteric makes it hard for me to believe there could be some other strange unseen force at work that brings these related ideas together. Whatever the cause, there are definitely some rich linkages in this issue of Island.

Editor-at-large Geordie Williamson brought us a short essay by Irish farmer and writer John Connell. John studied at the University of Technology Sydney, worked as a journalist in Australia, spent time in Canada, and more recently returned to his family farm in Ireland. He credits David Malouf as a profound influence on his writing, and names him as his mentor. I’m thrilled that the two should be featured together.

Maria Takolander’s poem ‘Phone’ took me back to a style of telecommunications so different from that now enjoyed by my children – where my adolescent conversations on the single household cord-bound landline were strictly time limited and excruciatingly public at the ‘telephone table’ in the centre of the family home. Jeremy Chambers’s story ‘Big Night Out’ could be set at almost any time in my lifespan, except for the conspicuous lack of mobile phones pushing it back at least a couple of decades. Emma Yearwood takes the phone on a different journey in her contemporary, sensitive reflection on capturing life via smartphones and displaying filtered self-representations on social media.

Reading the stories ‘Big Night Out’, ‘Cod Opening’ and ‘Honfleur’, I also reflected on different ways in which male characters position a female ‘other’. And the breathless ‘swirl’ of ‘Honfleur’ is an interesting juxtaposition to the pacy monologue of ‘Here to Help’. The loss of a husband in ‘Here to Help’ forms a counterpoint to a different treatment of a similar absence in Krissy Kneen’s extract from her forthcoming novel Wintering, soon to be released by Text Publishing.

My fascination with connections and relationships could create an almost infinite web, but I’m sure that you’ll enjoy making your own rich associations as you browse the wealth of ideas, motifs and styles in this issue.”

-Vern Field, Introduction, Island 154

ESSAYS
The Hated Hipster - Nina Cullen
This Farming Life - John Connell
I Love, I Slay, And Am Content - Damon Young
Widget - Adrian
The M Window - Elizabeth Flux
Instagram - Emma Yearwood


ART
Welcome Territory - Selena de Carvalho
Crawl Me Blood - Halcyon Macleod and Willoh S Weiland
Double Enigma - Jacobus Capone

FICTION
Winter Cave - Krissy Kneen
Cod Opening - Wayne Marshall
Here to Help - Jenny Sinclair
Honfleur - John Saul
Big Night Out - Jeremy Chambers

POETRY
Barangaroo Capriccio - Andy Kissane
Jesus Likes Radiohead - Michael Farrell
Theatre / Zucchini Flowers - Anthony Lawrence
Before or After / Kite - David Malouf
Maori Chief Hotel / Missed Fire - Peter Rose
Phone / Cuckoo Clock - Maria Takolander
Language
English
Pages
107
Publisher
Island Magazine Inc.
Release
August 28, 2018
ISBN 13
9780648271925

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