by Southerly | 7 Apr, 2017 | Blog
by Natalie Harkin I am above the clouds, floating on my contemplations and looking for patterns and remnant bush in cleared and carved-up landscapes. I’ve just parted ways with my friend and fellow poet at the Adelaide airport – she to Sydney and me to Canberra, each...
by Southerly | 17 Mar, 2017 | Blog
by A.J. Carruthers It is imperative that studies of the neo-avant-garde in Australia, and I think avant-garde studies in general, strike a balance between theory and history. One cannot just have a history of the avant-garde: a slew of good examples without a theory...
by Southerly | 8 Mar, 2017 | Blog
by A.J. Carruthers These blog posts will contain some critical explorations, reflections and polemics concerning my second book project titled The Languages of Invention: Australian Experimental Poetry and Literary History, 1973-2014. This project comes after Stave...
by Southerly | 3 Mar, 2017 | News
Southerly congratulates Ali Cobby Eckermann for winning the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry. Ali is one of Southerly‘s advisory board members, as well as editor of our best-selling issue, 71.2 A Handful of Sand. She has also blogged for us. Well done Ali!...
by Southerly | 28 Feb, 2017 | Blog
by Alison Whittaker Dunno if you remember me, tid. You and me went to school together in 2005. I’ve got these vignettes of you in my head. First we walked together on a tour of the school grounds like fluffy juvenile magpies – except it was so hot...