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| Prepare yourself for the dark and sinister world of Etchings: Dusk till Dawn. This issue delves into the obscure, goes undercover, seduces, spirals into obsession, journeys into other galaxies, and is haunted by the otherworldly and the mysterious. Launch:
11 March, from 6pm
@ VIP bar, Neverland
32-48 Johnson Street
South Melbourne. More. | | Etchings Indigenous: Black and Sexy presents some of the best contemporary writing and art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia. With contributions by Ali Cobby Eckermann, Tony Birch, NAIDOC artist of the year 2009 Wayne Quilliam, Bindi Cole, and many others. Read more. |
| Poetry: The Crooked Floor |
 Sensual. Wince-worthy. Haunting. Teasing.
The Crooked Floor journeys through the fragile terrain of human emotions and relationships, toying with the often inseparable complexities of devotion and obsession. Is time the ultimate enemy? This is but an inkling of what's in store for the reader in T M Collins' new poetry collection.
Collins' appeal transcends age, gender and geographic divide. Judith Rodriguez says that, 'to read these poems is to wince, to luxuriate - to be held by the steady voice, to expand into Tim Collins' inexorably sensual world.' At the time of publication, individual poems in The Crooked Floor had received more than twenty awards, including the Apollo Poetry Award (winner) and the W B Yeats Poetry Prize (highly commended). To get a taste of the poems in this collection, do read The Night At The Powerhouse.
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Colourful, playful, and particularly creative, the Chameleons issue abounds with ideas of change, disguise, double identities, and purely ephemeral moments of beauty.
Jean-François Vernay probes the complex relationship between fiction and psychoanalysis. Theresa Mason invokes startling imagery with her creative non-fiction personification of the Australian bushfires. Gabriel Garcia's fictional viewer takes us on a retrospective journey through the Water Hole exhibition of Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger, held at the Australian Contemporary Centre for the Arts in Melbourne earlier this year. Inga Walton invites Melbourne-based Thai artist Bundit Puangthong to speak about the cultural fusion in his artwork featuring the bright colours and iconography of traditional Thai paintings. Pattern and narrative are explored in Douglas Kirwan's intricate paintings which stir ‘an optical whirlpool that obstructs the isolation of a single shape' (Claudia Terstappen).
The strength of the fiction abounds throughout Chameleons, including a preview from Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee offering a pre-release glimpse into his fictional biographical new novel, Summertime, to be published in the UK later this year. Sallie Muirden creates a vivid and eccentric female character who has a sheep as a companion. Heather Fowler shows us familiar human traits, emotions, and attitudes through characters with wings, and others with eyes on their backs. And a beautiful moment between two old ladies sharing their memories in a story titled ‘Ducks' by A. S. Patric.
The poetry in this issue ranges from short intense and quirky pieces to longer reflective and thought provoking works, all creating a mysterious, haunting, delightful play on the theme of Chameleons. Enjoy!
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| Praise for ETCHINGS | There is proof here [Etchings 7] that strong pieces can come from established and emerging writers...While there is a sense of play in many of the contributions, Etchings remains a publication for those who take their literary journals seriously. THE AGE
...all the stories here [Etchings 5] are of a high quality. They are original and well-written; each of them is what Helen Garner has called "a little machine that works". THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Not only does Etchings 4 explore the various strands of vital and exuberant exchange of thoughts, it also canvasses pregnant pauses, cross-wires and other failures of communication. THE AGE
Give a warm welcome to a new literary journal, especially one as committed to short fiction as Etchings .... SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Independent publisher to watch is the Melbourne-based Ilura Press.... THE AGE
A substantial poetry section, lots of fiction, two essays, and three ventures into art. CANBERRA TIMES
Etchings, a lush publication. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW |
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