StylusLit

March 2022

Issue 11

Welcome to Issue 11 of StylusLit.  In this issue we have a few interviews that will certainly interest. We catch up with Melbourne-based poet, Angela Costi, who talks about her new book and her practice. Not sure where to start when publishing a poetry collection? We interview two poetry publishers, Stephen Matthews OAM, Ginninderra Press and Shane Strange, Recent Work Press.

We include poems by Angela Costi, and Shane Strange as well as work from David Adès, Edward Caruso, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, B.R. Dionysus, Willo Drummond, Marcelle Freiman, John Grey, Justin Lowe, Gershon Maller, Peter Mitchell, Hayden Pike, Brendan Ryan, Brenda Saunders, Pam Schindler and Cyril Wong.

There’s short fiction from Patrick Eades, James Hannan, Gemma Parker, and Mike Wilson. The fiction has been co-edited by Andrew Leggett, and our incoming editor, Gershon Maller. Read more in About.

Finally, read reviews of Anne Casey’s Portrait of a Woman Walking Home, Angela Costi’s An Embroidery of Old Maps and New, Vanessa Page’s Botanical Skin, Melinda Smith’s Man-Handled, and Jane Williams’ Points of Recognition.

Happy reading!
Rosanna Licari


Fiction

Backroads
By James Hannan

Can You Spare a Buck, Brother?
By Patrick Eades

Love Means Zero
By Mike Wilson

Morning, Trail
By Gemma Parker

Poetry

Adagio
By Brenda Saunders

Allegiance
By Peter Mitchell

At the Lyneham Motor Inn with Gemma
By Shane Strange

Bequest
By Shane Strange

Breaking up with a real artist
By Hayden Pyke

Grounded
By Justin Lowe

Interior in Yellow
By Marcelle Freiman

memorandum: floreat:
By Willo Drummond

Palm Cockatoo
By B. R. Dionysius

Ripple
By David Adès

Singing Statistics From Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) Internment Camp (1915)
By Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon

Straw, Sticks, Brick
By Cyril Wong

The Bosc pears
By Pam Schindler

The Hunter
By John Grey

The Security Guard
By Angela Costi

The Stick Shed of Murtoa
By Brendan Ryan

To Identify the Apostate
By Angela Costi

Van Gogh, Saint Rémy, September 1889
By Edward Caruso

You leave at dawn
By Gershon Maller

Reviews

An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
By Angela Costi

Botanical Skin
By Vanessa Page

Man-Handled
By By Melinda Smith

Points of Recognition
By Jane Williams

Portrait of a Woman Walking Home
By Anne Casey