Phoenix

"Phoenix 2006 is the first issue of a new journal of Australian writing, initiated by and for candidates in the University of Sydney's Masters Program in Creative Writing. If this makes it sound like yet another journal of 'work of promise' the reader is in for a surprise: this is not promise, it is delivery. The University of Sydney is attracting some of the best new writers in the country, and this journal is more than just a showcase for the program itself. These writers are mature. Their voices, fresh as they are, are also strong and confident." - From the introduction by David Brooks, Director, M.A. program in Creative Writing

Introduction
Introduction
The editors
Phoenix history
David Brooks
Foreword
Judith Beveridge

The creative process
1. The evolution of a poem
Judith Beveridge
2. Interview with Delia Falconer
3. Afterthoughts
Noel Rowe
4. Stranded
Sue Woolfe

Poetry
5. Progress report
Chris Angwin
6. ‘Aussie man dies’
Craig Billingham
7. Doctor Faustus
Craig Billingham
8. Last night
Craig Billingham
9. The revenant
Craig Billingham
10. Forbidden fruit pastoral
Cathy Bray
11. Broken Hill pastoral 1968
Cathy Bray
12. History of madness
Paul Giles
13. The storm waits
Paul Giles
14. Barefoot boy
Micah Horton
15. Country teacher
Micah Horton
16. Eine kleine nachtmusik
Micah Horton
17. Early mornings
Lucy Howard-Taylor
18. Kitchen sestina
Robin Hughes
19. Going home
Vesna Leto
20. Journey
Vesna Leto
21. Second translations
Cynthia Lindstrom
22. The women
Cynthia Lindstrom
23. Three tongues
Cynthia Lindstrom
24. From a sequence on the Iraq War
Roberta Lowing
25. Catching tree frogs
Tessa Lunney
26. You and I
Tessa Lunney
27. Martyr’s fruit
Karyn Meaker
28. The concubine
Karyn Meaker
29. The circus
Karyn Meaker
30. Animal
Samuel Moginie
31. The lemon and the sewing needle
Samuel Moginie
32. Beyond the garden gate
Patricio Muñoz
33. Take your youth
Patricio Muñoz
34. To our own quarters
Patricio Muñoz
35. Ferris
Anna North
36. Salvation
Elise Prehoda
37. China ball red
Elise Prehoda
38. Here in Sydney
George Quinn
39. Poetry school
George Quinn
40. Some/times
Carolyn Rickett
41. Truth
Carolyn Rickett
42. Poem for Nick Drake
Adrian Robinson
43. The invention of barbed wire
Adrian Robinson
44. The linguists
Adrian Robinson
45. The transcendentalist
Adrian Robinson
46. Miami
Diane Rosenthal
47. Trace
Diane Rosenthal
48. Zebra Sunday
Diane Rosenthal
49. Fence
Tessa Scott
50. Glow worms
Tessa Scott
51. Maungawhau
Tessa Scott
52. The park
Tessa Scott
53. Sonnets from the kitchen
Julie Thorndyke
54. Juggling life
Lyn Vellins
55. Grazing death
Julianne Wargren
56. Tigers in training
Julianne Wargren

Fiction
57. A small wave
Suzanne Brown
58. The price of rice
Wai-Ping Chim
59. About the threads
Kate Hansen
60. The great arch
Vicki Hastrich
61. Fly
Micah Horton
62. Nessun dorma: none shall sleep
Adrienne Jerram
63. The mirror
Ayman Kole
64. Wife dressing
Cynthia Lindstrom
65. The asylum at Abu N’af
Roberta Lowing
66. Bread-scented gold
Tessa Lunney
67. If short my span
Anna North
68. The six
Karen Pleskus
69. Up at the lake
Tessa Scott
70. An unremarkable woman
Luci Temple
71. Two bites of the cherry
Lyn Vellins
72. Mandarin Mondays
Julianne Wargren

Acknowledgements

Format: paperback
Size: 210 × 148 × 14 mm
236 pages
ISBN: 9781920898434
Publication: 16 Nov 2006