Welcome to Issue 7 of StylusLit, where I interview poet, writer and editor, Judith Beveridge. Judith won the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and for many years was the editor of Meanjin. Her interest in Buddhism has been reflected in her work, and in this issue we include a poem from the Suddhodana’s Poems.
Other poets in this issue are Lesley Carnus, Angela Costi, Jane Frank, Marcelle Freiman, Ross Jackson, Gershon Maller, Chris Mansell, Vanessa Page, Vaughan Rapatahana, Barnaby Smith, Vicky Tsaconas, Carl Walsh, Sean West and Jena Woodhouse, and there is short fiction from Lyn Dickens, Irma Gold and Ben Mason.
Finally, read reviews of Natalie D-Napoleon’s First Blood, Anna Jacobson’s Amnesia Findings, Anthony Lawrence’s Time Machine, and Jena Woodhouse’s Green Dance: Tamborine Mountain Poems.
Enjoy!
Rosanna Licari
Bios
Poetry
A Life in Gifts (Poème sur le Don)
By Lesley Carnus
After the War
By Marcelle Freiman
another easter another journey not taken
By Vicky Tsaconas
At the Great Reading Room, State Library of Victoria
By Gershon Maller
Birthday Boy
By Sean West
Eating banh mi near Ben Thanh
By Vanessa Page
frozen food
By Barnaby Smith
Hollow
By Jane Frank
In a black sea of sighs
By Ross Jackson
Kinaesthetic Grace
By Angela Costi
or fly not
By Chris Mansell
Speaking to Siddattha about his birth
By Judith Beveridge
the zephyr
By Vaughan Rapatahana
Two Girls in a Garden
By Jena Woodhouse
ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ (futhorc)
By Carl Walsh
Reviews
Amnesia Findings
By Anna Jacobson
First Blood
By Natalie D-Napoleon
Green Dance: Tamborine Mountain Poems
By Jena Woodhouse
Time Machine
By Anthony Lawrence