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Island magazine, Issue 155

Island magazine, Issue 155

Kit Scriven
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Thank you to the hundreds of Island readers who completed our recent survey. We are still analysing the detail of the responses, but some overall trends were
clear. The vast majority of respondents indicated that they like what we’re doing, and want us to keep doing it, with a few tweaks here and there. Some respondents read Island for all aspects of the publication while others have a particular focus, whether that be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art features or a combination. We hope that whatever the reason you pick up an issue of Island, you stay and enjoy discovering the variety each issue offers. It was very encouraging to see that most readers hold on to their copy after they’ve finished reading it, or pass it on to a loved one.

As we delve deeper into the results of the survey, we
will learn more from the responses. We always welcome feedback so drop us a line at [email protected] anytime to let us know your thoughts.

Carving out enough time for experiences that used
to be taken for granted, such as reading and writing,
seems increasingly difficult, but it’s vital to a healthy literary culture. In recognition of that, Island hosts weekly ‘writing caves’ in the office, providing a space to write for three hours without distractions, in the company of others . In partnership with Transportation Press, we have also been hosting ‘Silent Reading parties’ throughout the year. The premise is simple: people come together for an hour and a half to read silently – perhaps over some food or a drink. We have been encouraged by the success of these events – not because of any revenue received but because the popularity of an event that promotes reading and its benefits is always positive in our books . Attendees have many reasons for coming along – the chance to read in a bar without being disturbed, making a commitment to read when reading might not happen at home when there is housework to be done or Netflix to be binged, or simply making a date with yourself to be amongst others who love to read.

This quiet, thoughtful, slow engagement with reading
and writing almost seems revolutionary in what Piri
Eddy, in the opening article of this issue, aptly calls ‘a
culture of distractions’. He pleads with us to consider
how we consume art in galleries and museums – and
encourages a slower and less technologically mediated
engagement. While ‘capturing’ art on smartphones and sharing the images on social media can give art the wider platform it deserves, shouldn’t more consideration be given to the potential impact on the experiences of others present in the space? On a recent trip to the ‘art islands’ of Japan, Island’s General Manager Kate Harrison experienced something that she hadn’t realised she’d been missing. Much of the artwork on Naoshima and Teshima islands is subject to a photography ban, and the effect is beyond refreshing: the visitor is returned to being in the moment of discovery and appreciation, not distracted by how best to take that perfect shot and
quickly move on.

You’ll see from much of the visual language of this
issue that the Island team has also been contemplating, amongst many other things, the physical body and our place in the natural world.

This issue’s cover image from Gold Coast artist
Erica Gray’s life.e.quatic collection connects the human body to the strange and sculptural forms of the marine environment. The intricate tubes and branches of her corals and sponges seemed to echo the anatomical drawings of human lungs, arteries, veins and capillaries that we explored when working with Peter Papathanasiou’s informative article on body donation and Joanne Anderton’s gentle meditation on an ‘unhomed’ skull.

Opposite this issue’s list of contents, Tasmanian
artist Michael McWilliams’s painting, Portrait of a
Landscape, pulls this human-to-nature relationship
onto the terrestrial plane, as veins are transformed into roots and branches – or is it the other way around? This artwork’s dreamlike quality is perfectly counterpointed by Kit Scriven’s story ‘He Cannot Dream a River’, which won the 2017 Olga Masters Short Story Award with its tender depiction of human lives approaching their end, amongst the beauty and ongoing presence of the landscape and its nonhuman inhabitants.

Through these images and writings, the human body
cries out its corporeality – regardless of how sophisticated our technologies or how mediated our experiences. But don’t assume this is all a bit too serious for your summer reading! Viewing the body in a rather different way, we hope you’ll enjoy the dark yet warm comedy of Nicole Crowe’s reflection on her childhood fascination with a local nudist on Magnetic Island. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

There’s so much more to enjoy and to savour in this
issue – Carmel Bird’s reflections on the butterflies that
flit through her writings, fiction from James Bradley and others, excellent poetry including new work by Jennifer Maiden, a selection of art features, and more.

We are also honoured to include an edited version
of a lecture that Professor Marilyn Lake delivered at the University of Tasmania, in which she takes us back to early twentieth-century Australia: a time in which this nation was seen as a leader in radical social experiments and progressive democratic ideals – such as a legislated minimum wage.

It’s fascinating to read progressive jurist and parliamentarian HB Higgins’s definition of a ‘living wage’ as including not only the basics of food and clothing for the worker , but also ‘books and newspapers, insurance, furniture, rates, savings, accident and benefit societies, money to cover loss of employment, union pay, intoxicating liquors, tobacco, amusements and holidays, domestic help, religion and charitable donations’. In other words, ‘the amount needed to sustain a worker living as a human being in a civilised community’.

In today’s property market and with current costs
of living, it’s extremely hard to imagine a family of five
making ends meet on one minimum wage , let alone having anything left over for holidays or savings.

More than a century ago, as Higgins outlined his
ideals, he invoked a biological metaphor: that ‘society
was an organism’ and that ‘no part of the body social
could be healthy unless all parts were healthy’. Perhaps now, facing a changing climate and its environmental and human consequences, we might also include the health of the natural world in that prerequisite.
- the Island team

ESSAYS
In the MoMA Lobby, No-one Can Hear You Scream- Piri Eddy
The Way I See It - Carmel Bird
What We Leave Behind - Peter Papathanasiou
Prosection - Joanne Anderton
Australia's Founding Ideals - Marilyn Lake
Magoo - Nicole Crowe
Into the Ring - Uria


ART
DREAMdesign - Michelle Boyde, Feifei Feng anf=d Judith Abell
ZERO - Jane Clark
A foreign frok in the cutlery drawer - Anthony Johnson and Sarah Jones

FICTION
He Cannot Dream a River - Kit Scriven
Mother - Liana Skryzypczak
Be Quiet - Julian Thomas Cragg
High Country - James Bradley

POETRY
Something Wild and Multiple - Jill Jones
Jolt - Aidan Coleman
Men I Have Worked With - Brendan Ryan
The RMC Gunn Veterinary Science Building - Carol Jenkins
Another Day at Home - Robbie Coburn
Hillary and Eleanor: 16 Concrete - Jennifer Maiden
Juan G - Jessica Mehta
Road to La Masiera - Todd Turner
Language
English
Pages
111
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Island Magazine Inc.
Release
November 26, 2018
ISBN 13
9780648271932

Island magazine, Issue 155

Kit Scriven
4.4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Thank you to the hundreds of Island readers who completed our recent survey. We are still analysing the detail of the responses, but some overall trends were
clear. The vast majority of respondents indicated that they like what we’re doing, and want us to keep doing it, with a few tweaks here and there. Some respondents read Island for all aspects of the publication while others have a particular focus, whether that be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art features or a combination. We hope that whatever the reason you pick up an issue of Island, you stay and enjoy discovering the variety each issue offers. It was very encouraging to see that most readers hold on to their copy after they’ve finished reading it, or pass it on to a loved one.

As we delve deeper into the results of the survey, we
will learn more from the responses. We always welcome feedback so drop us a line at [email protected] anytime to let us know your thoughts.

Carving out enough time for experiences that used
to be taken for granted, such as reading and writing,
seems increasingly difficult, but it’s vital to a healthy literary culture. In recognition of that, Island hosts weekly ‘writing caves’ in the office, providing a space to write for three hours without distractions, in the company of others . In partnership with Transportation Press, we have also been hosting ‘Silent Reading parties’ throughout the year. The premise is simple: people come together for an hour and a half to read silently – perhaps over some food or a drink. We have been encouraged by the success of these events – not because of any revenue received but because the popularity of an event that promotes reading and its benefits is always positive in our books . Attendees have many reasons for coming along – the chance to read in a bar without being disturbed, making a commitment to read when reading might not happen at home when there is housework to be done or Netflix to be binged, or simply making a date with yourself to be amongst others who love to read.

This quiet, thoughtful, slow engagement with reading
and writing almost seems revolutionary in what Piri
Eddy, in the opening article of this issue, aptly calls ‘a
culture of distractions’. He pleads with us to consider
how we consume art in galleries and museums – and
encourages a slower and less technologically mediated
engagement. While ‘capturing’ art on smartphones and sharing the images on social media can give art the wider platform it deserves, shouldn’t more consideration be given to the potential impact on the experiences of others present in the space? On a recent trip to the ‘art islands’ of Japan, Island’s General Manager Kate Harrison experienced something that she hadn’t realised she’d been missing. Much of the artwork on Naoshima and Teshima islands is subject to a photography ban, and the effect is beyond refreshing: the visitor is returned to being in the moment of discovery and appreciation, not distracted by how best to take that perfect shot and
quickly move on.

You’ll see from much of the visual language of this
issue that the Island team has also been contemplating, amongst many other things, the physical body and our place in the natural world.

This issue’s cover image from Gold Coast artist
Erica Gray’s life.e.quatic collection connects the human body to the strange and sculptural forms of the marine environment. The intricate tubes and branches of her corals and sponges seemed to echo the anatomical drawings of human lungs, arteries, veins and capillaries that we explored when working with Peter Papathanasiou’s informative article on body donation and Joanne Anderton’s gentle meditation on an ‘unhomed’ skull.

Opposite this issue’s list of contents, Tasmanian
artist Michael McWilliams’s painting, Portrait of a
Landscape, pulls this human-to-nature relationship
onto the terrestrial plane, as veins are transformed into roots and branches – or is it the other way around? This artwork’s dreamlike quality is perfectly counterpointed by Kit Scriven’s story ‘He Cannot Dream a River’, which won the 2017 Olga Masters Short Story Award with its tender depiction of human lives approaching their end, amongst the beauty and ongoing presence of the landscape and its nonhuman inhabitants.

Through these images and writings, the human body
cries out its corporeality – regardless of how sophisticated our technologies or how mediated our experiences. But don’t assume this is all a bit too serious for your summer reading! Viewing the body in a rather different way, we hope you’ll enjoy the dark yet warm comedy of Nicole Crowe’s reflection on her childhood fascination with a local nudist on Magnetic Island. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

There’s so much more to enjoy and to savour in this
issue – Carmel Bird’s reflections on the butterflies that
flit through her writings, fiction from James Bradley and others, excellent poetry including new work by Jennifer Maiden, a selection of art features, and more.

We are also honoured to include an edited version
of a lecture that Professor Marilyn Lake delivered at the University of Tasmania, in which she takes us back to early twentieth-century Australia: a time in which this nation was seen as a leader in radical social experiments and progressive democratic ideals – such as a legislated minimum wage.

It’s fascinating to read progressive jurist and parliamentarian HB Higgins’s definition of a ‘living wage’ as including not only the basics of food and clothing for the worker , but also ‘books and newspapers, insurance, furniture, rates, savings, accident and benefit societies, money to cover loss of employment, union pay, intoxicating liquors, tobacco, amusements and holidays, domestic help, religion and charitable donations’. In other words, ‘the amount needed to sustain a worker living as a human being in a civilised community’.

In today’s property market and with current costs
of living, it’s extremely hard to imagine a family of five
making ends meet on one minimum wage , let alone having anything left over for holidays or savings.

More than a century ago, as Higgins outlined his
ideals, he invoked a biological metaphor: that ‘society
was an organism’ and that ‘no part of the body social
could be healthy unless all parts were healthy’. Perhaps now, facing a changing climate and its environmental and human consequences, we might also include the health of the natural world in that prerequisite.
- the Island team

ESSAYS
In the MoMA Lobby, No-one Can Hear You Scream- Piri Eddy
The Way I See It - Carmel Bird
What We Leave Behind - Peter Papathanasiou
Prosection - Joanne Anderton
Australia's Founding Ideals - Marilyn Lake
Magoo - Nicole Crowe
Into the Ring - Uria


ART
DREAMdesign - Michelle Boyde, Feifei Feng anf=d Judith Abell
ZERO - Jane Clark
A foreign frok in the cutlery drawer - Anthony Johnson and Sarah Jones

FICTION
He Cannot Dream a River - Kit Scriven
Mother - Liana Skryzypczak
Be Quiet - Julian Thomas Cragg
High Country - James Bradley

POETRY
Something Wild and Multiple - Jill Jones
Jolt - Aidan Coleman
Men I Have Worked With - Brendan Ryan
The RMC Gunn Veterinary Science Building - Carol Jenkins
Another Day at Home - Robbie Coburn
Hillary and Eleanor: 16 Concrete - Jennifer Maiden
Juan G - Jessica Mehta
Road to La Masiera - Todd Turner
Language
English
Pages
111
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Island Magazine Inc.
Release
November 26, 2018
ISBN 13
9780648271932

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