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Volume 18 | Issue 2 Article 1
2004 Front Matter Antipodes Editors
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Recommended Citation Editors, Antipodes (2004) "Front Matter," Antipodes: Vol. 18: Iss. 2, Article 1. Available at: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/antipodes/vol18/iss2/1 I A North American Journal of Australian Literature “s^ Ih e Publication of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies D ecember 2004 : E d it o r Nicholas Birns New School University o f A u s tra lia n Litera t u r e f The Publication of the Fiction Editor Australian Literary Studies DECEMBER 2004 VOLUME 18 N o . 2 J. A. W ainwright Dalhousie University ■ P o e t r y
Poetry Editor 103 Janet Reinhardt — Scrap Book Paul Kane 104 Peter Bakowski — A Letter from Baghdad to Melbourne, 1 June 2004 Vassar College 122 Meg McNena — Say It Begins with S
Reviews Editor 123 Kathryn Lomer — A List of Things To Do This Winter Richard Carr 128 Maria Takolander — Nose Bleed University of Alaska—Fairbanks 129 Craig Sherborne — Journo 129 Lisa Gorton — Petrol Associate Editor Paul Plisiewicz 135 Mike Ladd — The Barrier Highway University of South Carolina 152 Andrew Leggett — Gift 162 Kevin Hart — Finland Essays, general correspondence: 170 Lorraine McGuigan — Grass Nicholas Birns 205 East Tenth Street 173 Louise Oxley — Division New York, NY 10003-7634 email
Poetry Manuscripts 124 Sylvia Kelso — Slick Paul Kane 136 Mike Ladd — The Silvered Mirror Department of English Box 299 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 ■ E s s a y s email
Fiction Manuscripts 105 Penny Jones — A Pint-sized Cliff Hardy: Dorothy Porter and the Niche ]. A. Wainwright Marketing of Australia English Department 113 Lyn Jacobs — Tales of Two Cities: Fictions by Lau Siew Mei and Susan Dalhousie University Johnson Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3J5 132 Michael Farrell — The Imageless World, Michael Brennan: A Traveling email
Conference of Editors ot Learned Journals
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COVER A r t — Dawn Csutoros, Lotus Garden (78 x 58.5 cm, p a s te l on paper, 2001)
98 INTERVIEW — An Interview with Robert Anderson, Gheebelum Ngugi, Editorial Advisory Board Rebecca Weaver'Hightower
119 INTERVIEW — An Interview with Alexis Wright, Jean-Frangois Vernay Carolyn Bliss (Chair) 130 INTERVIEW — An Interview with Annamarie Jagose, Madeleine Byrne Marian Arkin (CUNY) 176 BRINDABELLA: Literary news from around Australia, Madeleine Byrne Richard Carr (Alaska) Donna Coates (Calgary) 190 Bibliography of Australian Literature and Criticism Published in North H.W. Fawkner (Stockholm) America, 2003, Faye Christenberry Kevin Hart (Notre Dame) Jackie Huggins (Queensland) ■ ______B o o k R e v ie w s Herbert Jaffa (NYU) Christopher Lee (USQ) ■ F ic t io n David McCooey (Deakin) 178 Thomas Keneally, The Tyrant’s Novel — Marjorie C. Allison Mark Pirie (Wellington) 179 Andrew McGahan, The White Earth — A. Digger Stolz Imre Salusinszky (Sydney) Kay Schaffer (Adelaide) 179 Gerald Murnane, The Plains — Jean-Francois Vernay Susan Schultz (Hawai’i) 180 Rodney Hall, The Last Love Story: A Fairy Tale of the Day After Elizabeth Webby (Sydney) Tomorrow — Sigrun Meinig Adi Wimmer (Klagenfurt) 181 Sophie Cunningham, Geography — Erica Keiko Iseri Zhu Jiong-Qiang (Zhejiang) 182 Philip Salom, Toccata & Rain — Joanna A. Meyer 183 Graham Henderson, Place of the Paintings — AnnaMarie Christiansen Founding Editor: 184 Donald Denoon, AfterLife: A Divine Comedy — Shirley J. Paolini
■ P o e t r y Robert Ross 185 Judy Johnson, Nomadic — D’Arcy Randall 186 Adrienne Eberhard, Agamemnon’s Poppies — Bev Braune
A ll essays and interviews ■ A b o r ig in a l S t u d ie s published in Antipodes 187 Maryrose Casey, Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre — are fully refereed. Stella Pulo
■ L it e r a r y C r it ic ism 188 Jenny Robin Jones, Writers In Residence: A Journey with Pioneer N ew Zealand Writers — Nicholas Birns
In Memory of Peter Mathers 1931 -2004
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