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Island Magazine

Griffith Review 8 edited by Julianne Schultz & Heat 9 edited by Ivor Indyk

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September 2005, no. 274
Michael Williams reviews ‘Griffith Review 8: People like us’ edited by Julianne Schultz, ‘Heat 9: Star dust’ edited by Ivor Indyk and ‘Island No. 100’ edited by David Owen

Hands up if you subscribe to an Australian journal. Keep them up if you subscribe to more than one. More than two? If you read them? Cover to cover? Half? More than two articles an issue? Hands up if you look forward to them. Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something that makes me terribly tired when faced with the prospect of Australia’s literary and political journals. I stand in front of the (small) shelf made available for them in my local bookshop and try to muster up the enthusiasm I might feel when faced with a shelf of new books; try to feel excited at the prospect of reading them. I have a couple of subscriptions, and when they arrive, I make a point of tearing the envelope open immediately to have a look. And yet I still have to push past a barrier of resistance to sit and actually read them.

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'Written off as second-rate' by Andrew Riemer

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December 1992, no. 147

What is the relationship between our literary culture and the academy? Moreover, should there be any relationship between the two, or is it healthier if each remains separate, largely isolated from the other? These-questions were brought into focus for me by ‘Word Games’, a provocative essay in the Spring issue of Island, that lively Tasmanian literary magazine.

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