Magazines and Journals

ISBN: ABR
Title: ABR
Author: JUNE - JULY 2020
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

June–July 2020, no. 422

Our winter double issue features two superb meditations on family, gender, mourning and becoming. Yves Rees is the winner of this year's Calibre Essay Prize. 'Reading the Mess Backwards' is a story of trans becoming that digs into the messiness of bodies, gender and identity. ABR Rising Star Sarah Walker writes beautifully about losing her mother and the difficulties of commemoration during a pandemic. James Ley has a virtuoso pastiche of Philip Roth in his review of the Portnoy trials. Sophie Cunningham reviews Richard Cooke's book on Robyn Davidson. Plus poems by Gwen Harwood, Jaya Savige, and Stephen Edgar – and much more!

Imprint: MAGAZINES
RRP: $12.95

ISBN: 9772204735002
Title: ARCHER #13 - The First Nations Issue
Author: #13
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

ARCHER MAGAZINE #13 - the FIRST NATIONS issue

Guest edited by Bridget Caldwell-Bright and Maddee Clark.

Featuring words by:
Andrew Farrell
Indiah Money
Kai Clancy
Laniyuk
Rose Chalks
SJ Norman
Timmah Ball
Tré Turner
William Cooper

Featuring images by:
Moorina Bonini
William Cooper
Ebony Daniels
Edwina Green
Morgan Hickinbotham
Jacinta Keefe
Ricardo Martinez-Roa
Daniel McDonald
Hailey Harper Moroney
SJ Norman
Bodie Strain
Pierra Van Sparkes
Toz Withall

Imprint: ARCHER
RRP: $16.95

ISBN: 9772652477509
Title: ARENA - New Format #1
Author: NO 1
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Inaugural issue of Arena (3rd Series)

Editorial: Will the Fires Change Everything?

We are passing into an elemental moment, but do we have the language for grasping this?

Imprint: ARENA
RRP: $20.00

ISBN: 9780648271970
Title: ISLAND MAGAZINE #159
Author: ISSUE 159
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

We are always excited when we publish Island, but perhaps even more so with this next issue. After being unsuccessful in achieving a renewal of multi-year grant funding from Arts Tasmania, it seemed unlikely that the magazine would survive 2019, let alone 2020. But due to an anonymous private benefactor, a matched once-only government grant and some individual donors, we were able to start work on the 2020 publishing schedule (albeit reduced to two issues instead of the normal four). The global pandemic has certainly added some extra challenges, but here we are, about to publish issue 159, the first of our two 2020 issues!

We cannot express how grateful we are to everyone who has made this possible – our funding, design and advertising partners, our donors, our contributors and our readers.

This is the first issue put together by our refreshed editorial team of Anna Spargo-Ryan (nonfiction), Ben Walter (fiction), Lisa Gorton (poetry) and Judith Abell (art features). We are thrilled to have them on board. They bring such enthusiasm, energy and commitment to their task, and have delivered selections that are richly diverse and worthy.

Here you’ll find poems about fires, bodies, art and violence – including some that recall the summer’s fires and others that resonate with the confinement of these isolated days. You’ll also find thoughtful essays about the arts in this time of crisis, but also about ideas as important now as ever, such as togetherness, curiosity, love and the deep solace to be found in nature. There’s fresh, funny, clever and shocking fiction here that will take you on a dizzying ride through far-flung hotel rooms (how distant they seem right now!), the comic drama of suburban renovations, the strange world of the workplace and the bizarre one of reality TV crime drama, the mysteries of childhood, and one of the darkest great-aunts you’ll ever meet. As always, our art features enrich the issue, and this time they coalesce around various sites and forms of tragedy and extinction – from Julie Gough’s Tense Past, to Lucienne Rickard’s Extinction Studies and Selena de Carvalho’s Beware of Imposters (the secret life of flowers) – all of them urging us to attend to what has been lost and what can yet be lost.

We hope that these voices will inspire, entertain and comfort you in our uncertain and vulnerable times.

Imprint: MAGAZINES
RRP: $16.50

ISBN: 9771835566009
Title: LIFTED BROW MAGAZINE #45
Author: #45
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Issue 45 of The Lifted Brow: essays, fiction, translations, commentary, criticism, poetry, and as always so many pages of comics and illustrations.

With cover art by Michael Fikaris, Issue 45 of The Lifted Brow includes:

** An adaptation of Nic Holas' Brow Talk about how far we have come in depathologising but not depoliticising our sex lives, guest edited by TLB founder Ronnie Scott;

** Georgia Mill elucidates the invisible but entrenched barriers to queer parenthood in Australia;

** An exploratory essay from Tess Pearson that pieces together language and the body after pregnancy;

** Kate Scardifield with an experimental essay on limbs, detachment, and the instinct to collect and categorise;

** Aurora Scott with a lyric essay on islands, rocks, isolation and attention;

** Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn writing on breaking the silence in the mining industry and why it is so hard to be heard;

** An excerpt from Eloise Grills' upcoming Brow Books publication big beautiful female theory;

** Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, translated by Erin Goodman, with a story that peers through the screen and finds the other side wanting; plus an interview between author and translator on work, intimacy, and the soundtrack to it all;

** Punchy dystopic fiction from Kang Young-Sook, translated by Janet Hong, on contagion and the bonds that hold us;

** A prose poem from Rosmarie Waldrop that scrutinises semantics;

** Poetry from Georgia Kartas, Panda Wong, and Jason Phu;

** columns: Antonia Pont’s tour-de-force ‘Thinking Feeling’ column about the ethics and micro-dynamics of leadership; Jana Perkovic’s column ‘The Critic’ reflects on Exit Strategies, and the complex work of leaving; and Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny Phang’s famous ‘Law School’ sex+relationships advice column;

** A new ‘By Numbers’ feature by Panda Wong that uses numerical data to investigate the world of trees;

and new comics and visual art by April Phillips, Anya Davidson, Wakana Yamazaki, Mary Leunig, Can Yalcinkaya, Ashley Ronning, Angelica Roache-Wilson, Humyara Mahbub, Shae San Sim, Emma Davidson, Zanem Zlemeša, Ben Constantine, Emilie Walsh, Christine Obst, Tom Groenestyn, and Oscar Nimmo.

Imprint: MAGAZINES
RRP: $15.95

ISBN: 9780522876680
Title: MEANJIN Vol 79 No 2 - Winter 2020
Author: GREEN JONATHAN [ED]
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved. Noongar author Claire G. Coleman writes on the long shadow of the Stolen Generations- 'Dad discovered he was Noongar when he was 63, when I was 30, when his Uncle Bob died...' Poet Toby Fitch details Australian animal and bird extinction from 1788 to the present. Plus- Lucy Treloar, Guy Rundle, Rebecca Slater, Elizabeth Flux, Jennifer Mills, Michael Cathcart, Maria Takolander, and Jack Hibberd.

Imprint: MEANJIN
RRP: $24.99

ISBN: 9772016012803
Title: MEKONG REVIEW
Author: VOL 5 NUMBER 2
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK


Imprint: MEKONG REVIEW
RRP: $10.00

ISBN: 9771832342002
Title: MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Author: JULY 2020
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

July 2020

Reconciliation and the promise of an Australian homecoming
By Megan Davis

Weal of fortune
By Richard Denniss

American carnage
By Don Watson

The man inside and the inside man
By Mahmood Fazal

Fermata: Musical performance in lockdown
By Anna Goldsworthy

The death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
By Shane Danielsen

The heat of a moment: Ziggy Ramo’s ‘Black Thoughts’
By Anwen Crawford

Imprint: Black Inc.
RRP: $12.95

ISBN: 710535058727
Title: NEW PHILOSOPHER - #27 Family Matters
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Issue #027: Family Matters

Tales of brothers feuding, often ending with one committing fratricide, are unsettlingly common in mythology. Set murdered Osiris, Romulus killed Remus, and Oedipus’s sons Eteocles and Polynices killed each other. More recently, and less imaginatively, Adolf and Rudolf Dassler (of Adidas and Puma fame respectively) and Sterling and Stephen Clark (heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune) turned their backs on one another, over money.

Imprint: NEW PHILOSOPHER MAGAZINE
RRP: $14.95

ISBN: 710535058734
Title: WOMANKIND #23 - England
Author: #23
Format: MAGAZINE
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

#023: England

“As soon as I saw the house, I knew my life would be changed forever,” she says. The country farmhouse in England is bought and a new path is forged. This is an example of an unexpected find which spins life on a new axis.

Imprint: WOMANKIND MAGAZINE
RRP: $14.95