Welcome to Issue 5 of StylusLit, where I interview Australian poet, electronic musician and video artist, Ian Gibbins. Read his poem, Vox Pops, LA ’82, for a peek into the early eighties.
Creative non-fiction from Bill Marshall. Short fiction from Eugen M Bacon, Caitlyn Doyle-Markwick, Margaret Karmazin, and Ankur van der Woude.
Poets included are Richard James Allen, Peter Bakowski, Jennifer Compton, William Cotter, Ian Gibbins, Ross Jackson, Jill Jones, Rachael Mead, Philip Neilson, Vanessa Page, Maree Reedman, Ian Reid, Alicia Sometimes, Rodney Williams and Roger Vickery,
Read reviews of Marion May Campbell’s Third Body, Felix Cheong’s B-Sides and Backslides: 1986-2018 and Charlotte Guest’s Soap.
Enjoy!
Rosanna Licari
Bios
Creative Non-fiction
Weird Scenes inside the Brainstem
By Bill Marshall
Fiction
A Pining
By Eugen M Bacon
Earth
By Ankur van der Woude
Mother
By Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
The Premonition
By Margaret Karmazin
Poetry
And What Is the Sky
By Jill Jones
Directions to the End of the Day
By Rachael Mead
Everything Else is Vanished
By Alicia Sometimes
Finding Faith at the Bones of St Peter
By Vanessa Page
Force Majeure
By Richard James Allen
Going Under
By Ian Reid
it was sudden, it is always sudden
By Jennifer Compton
Mr Greene attends a party, Cannes, 19 April 1946
By Peter Bakowski
Shadows of the Italian
By Ross Jackson
Sidney Nolan’s Emu
By Philip Neilsen
The Butterflies
By Maree Reedman
The Coming of Burke, Wills and King to Cooper’s Creek, April 21, 1861
By William Cotter
Tour Guide at the Getty
By Rodney Williams
Vasari’s Portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent
By Roger Vickery
Vox Pops, LA ’82
By Ian Gibbins
Reviews
B-Sides and Backslides: 1986-2018
By Felix Cheong
Soap
By Charlotte Guest
Third Body
By Marion May Campbell