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in this issue

Haiku
Jenny Barnard, Helen Bascand, Alma E Bird, John Bird, Janice M. Bostok, Jill Cartwright, Stewart Collie, ross coward, Ross Figgins, Jim Kacian, Peter Macrow, Ron Moss, Joanna Preston, Vanessa Proctor, Lyn Reeves, Carla Sari, Rita Summers, Carol Toogood, Judith Walsh, John Ward

Prose
Sherryl Clark, Elise Jones, Anne Morgan, Olga Pavlinova

Reviews
1. May Carroll - I wanted to throw your things out on the lawn, (poetry collection, Cornford Press), reviewed by Eric Beach
2. MTC Cronin - Bestseller, (poetry collection, Vagabond Press), reviewed by Robyn Mathison
3. Anne Kellas - Isolated States, (poetry collection, Cornford Press), reviewed by Kevin Brophy
4. Ioana Petrescu - Fumigated, (poetry collection, Ginninderra Press), reviewed by John De Laine
5. Karen Knight - Singing in the Grain, (poetry chapbook, Walleah Press), reviewed by Peter Macrow
6. Christobel Mattingley - King of the Wilderness, the life of Deny King (Text publishing)
7. Homer Rieth - The Dining Car Scene, (poetry collection, Black Pepper Press), reviewed by Tim Thorne
8. Henry Reynolds - An indelible stain? The question of genocide in Australia's history, (Viking Penguin)

100 word segment
Kevin Gillam, Kathryn Hamann, Mary Jenkins, Marlene Marburg, Rhonda Poholke, Estelle Randall, Carol Toogood, Margeurite Varday, Nell Wilson

Comment
1. Mairead Byrne - Feminity in poetry
2. Berenice Eastman, Hoa Pham, John West - Snippets from the Tasmanian Readers & Writers Festival, August 2001
3. Geraldine Monk - Egos and Authors
4. Michael Peverett - Avant-garde tradition
5. Michael Peverett - A note on religious literature
6. David Prater, Rob Riel - Bush vs city poets / bush poetry

Poetry
Willow Aliento, Chris Andrews, Eric Beach, Martin Bennett, Tony Beyer, Ken Bolton, Margaret Bradstock, James Charlton, Anne Collins, Martin Downey, Michael Farrell, Bill Fewer, Carolyn Fisher, Leigh Fromharder, Fran Graham, Jill Jones, Anne Kellas, Cath Kenneally, Yve Louis, David Lumsden, Sean McCarthy, Shane McCauley, Katarina Mahnic, Andrew Milson, Wendy Morgan, Jan Owen, p.O., Jim Paterson, Andrew Peek, Sheryl Persson, Maureen Power, Saxby Pridmore, Lyn Reeves, Stuart Solman, Susan Stanford, Elizabeth Stephens, Adam Stokell, Virgil Suarez, Tim Thorne, Bill Walker, John West, Les Wicks, David Winwood, Ouyang Yu

Essays
1. Joe Cato - Tues Sept 11th, 8.50am
2. Rachel Cunneen - On Being a Bleeding Heart (reflections on the Tampa crisis)
3. Pete Hay - Notes within Shadow (reflections on Afghanistan)
4. Parry Kostoglou - Camp Wannagohome, Heard Home (five months in the Antarctic)
5. Lawrence Upton - Regarding Timothy McVeigh

Miscellany
1. Harriet & Stella McDonald - The Island Chronicles
2. Ralph Wessman - Recent publications (notes on Island 86, Moorilla Mosaic, Meanjin 3/2001, Phil Brown/An Accident in the Evening, Overland 163 and 164, Selwyn Pritchard/Letters and Characters, Going Down Swinging, Hecate, Interior Despots, Kathryn Lomer/The god in the ink, Shelley O'Rielly/Dying for Beauty, Bob Brown/The Valley of the Giants)

Launch speeches
1. Philomena van Rijswijk - Rattling the Cage, short story collection by Morag Kirk (Esperance Press) launched Hobart, July 2001
2. Mark O'Flynn - Five Islands Press New poets Series 8 (Lesley Fowler, Terry Jaensch, Kate Kennedy, David Kirkby, Sheridan Linnell, Shen) launched Varuna NSW, July 2001

Interviews
1. Jodie Albiston
2. Douglas Lockhart