If this issue has any theme, it could well be ‘generosity’, in light of several felicitous occurrences during planning.

Contents

1. Publishing Information
2. Editorial — Michael Sharkey — Foreword
3. Editorial — Michael Sharkey — Australia Poetry Journal’s Prize for 2014 Poem of the Year
4. Poem — Ali Jane Smith — Another Literary Life
5. Interview — Paul Magee — Interview with Samuel Wagan Watson
6. Poem — Mark Young — Comping
7. Poem — Hugh McMillan — Caroline Herschel’s Christmas
8. Poem — Lynne Arjava — This is the Suitcase
9. Poem — Jane Frank — Another Day
10. Poem — Johanna Emeney — Norma-Jean, Naomi, Tammy and Grace
11. Poem — Rob Walker — Eisoptrophobia
12. Poem — Ouyang Yu — Voices
13. Poem — Simon Patton — King Hong Kong
14. Poem — Ross Donlon — Copyright
15. Poem — John Kinsella — Wren’s Electric Field Strength
16. Interview — Josh Mei-Ling Dubrau — Interview with Julie Chevalier
17. Poem — Anne Elvey — Freight
18. Poem — Caitlin Maling — At the Excalibur
19. Poem — Julie Maclean — Far From
20. Poem — Bruce Shearer — He was very smooth
21. Poem — Stephen Edgar — The Life and Times
22. Poem — Mike Ladd — Back Again
23. Poem — Dugald Williamson — Calls like storms
24. Poem — Norm Neill — innocent until
25. Poem — Paula McKay — Baptism of Fire
26. Essay — N.N. Trakakis — Found in Translation: on translating Tasos Leivaditis
27. Poem — Dave Drayton — a/the/my heart as metaphor and strained organ: aortic stenosis
28. Poem — Tracy Ryan — Poem for Ash Wednesday
29. Poem — Andy Kissane — Alone Again
30. Poem — Amy Crutchfield — MH17
31. Poem — Julian Croft — The Art of War—Europe
32. Poem — Sharyn Anderson — About Town
33. Poem — Carolyn Gerrish — Familiarity
34. Poem — David McCooey — Two Pastorals
35. Poem — Adam Ford — Anti-RomCom Pop Song
36. Poem — Allis Hamilton — Mrs Piper
37. Essay — Tim Thorne — Ginninderra’s Hundred Flowers: a review of eleven recent poetry titles from Ginninderra Press
38. Poem — Peter Lach-Newinsky — Sense of a Century
39. Poem — Kevin Brophy — Eaten Moon at Easter
40. Poem — Fay Zwicky — Boat Song
41. Poem — Anne M Carson — : meditations on melancholy
42. Poem — Mitchell Welch — Love your Neighbour
43. Poem — Yve Louis — Walk as though being followed by three men
44. Poem — Helga Jermy — The poppy pickers
45. Poem — Judith Beveridge — Clouds
46. Poem — Gita Mammen — Homage
47. Essay — Margaret Bradstock — Black Pepper Press: Spice and Grit
48. Poem — Ross Gillett — Jealousy
49. Poem — Jenny Pollak — Like seed that falls
50. Poem — Carol Jenkins — 10,000,000 Years Ago We Take to Drink
51. Poem — Jeff Rich — Not getting things done
52. Poem — Chloe Wilson — Medico della Peste
53. Poem — Stephen Smithyman — At Castle Howard
54. Poem — Tiggy Johnson — Ice breaker
55. Poem — Rob Wallis — Speaking Up For Those Men
56. Poem — EA Gleeson — Companionship in my Aged Care Facility
57. Poem — Karen Murphy — Sixty Years
58. Poem — Rachael Guy — Drone
59. Review — Bonny Cassidy — John Kinsella’s Wild Ecology of Thought
60. Review — Andy Jackson — Intimacy and Otherness; Home and the Road
61. Review — Jacinta Le Plastrier — Ania Walwicz: A Sense of the Prodigious
62. Contributor Bios