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An Editor Out of Hiding.
Firstly, welcome to the Southerly blog, and a Southerly that is going from strength to strength. Thanks to our on-line component, The Long Paddock, we are publishing more material than ever. Despite...
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South Countries: John Kinsella, J.S. Harry
It is cold, deepest cold, the lake frozen as far as the eye can see, which is not so far because there is also mist, low and heavy, a twilight mist, swept, as if it came from an endless plain, a vast...
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The Conversation Give Away!
Goodreads is hosting a give away for The Conversation, the latest book by our editor, David Brooks. With only five days left to enter, and the book not yet launched, this is a great way to get an early...
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Southerly at the Sydney Writers’ Festival!
As well as being an editor of Southerly, David Brooks is a novelist, poet, and academic. You can see him speak at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, which is held from May 18th to 26th. Make sure you check...
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October monthly blogger – David Brooks!
Many thanks to Rebecca Giggs, for her excellent, thought-provoking posts. This month, our blogger will be David Brooks, one of our managing editors and editor of our upcoming Liar/Lyre issue, writing...
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Cicada Season
by David Brooks Early October and it’s uncommonly warm. September’s average maximum was six degrees higher than the long-term average and this month seems as if it will be no different. Last summer was...
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How to Ride a Horse
by David Brooks October 4th was World Animal Day and I was privileged to be asked to read in Sydney at an Animals and Art fundraising event for Animal Liberation NSW, to an audience which included some...
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Swallows (The Narrow Road through the Deep North)
by David Brooks I have just searched the Oxford English Dictionary – not the on-line version, but the two (huge) volume, ‘compact’ version I bought myself on special offer when I was a graduate...
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Wild Ducklings
by David Brooks At the Animal Liberation NSW ‘Animals and Art’ fund-raising event I wrote of in my second blog my wife Teja Pribac exhibited some of her photographs, each of which was available for...
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A Photograph
By David Brooks In my previous piece I wrote of the selection of photographs for a small exhibition. The photographs were not my own, but at one point there was some consideration of adding to it some...
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Call for Submissions: Disabilities issue
For its second number in 2016, Southerly will be producing an issue, co-edited by David Brooks and Andy Jackson, on Writing and Disability, and we are seeking contributions in all our usual fields –...
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Followed by Patrick Modiano’s Dog: What I’ve Been Reading, Last Part
by Luke Beesley Having just finished Cesar Aira’s Shantytown, which in the end was probably my least favourite Aira, I’ve just begun Beauty is a Wound by Indonesian Eka Kurniawan, mostly because of how...
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Podcast: David Brooks reads poems from ‘Open House’
Podcast duration: 16 mins This issue of Southerly pays tribute to David Brooks, who is retiring as editor after two decades’ stewardship. It includes poetry, fiction, essays and memoir that...
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Dear David As someone who grew up on a cattle station and still (very occasionally) eats red meat, I’ve been reading your article, ‘The Fallacies”, in the latest Southerly with considerable interest. I...
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The Sheep That I Am
This piece is from the Long Paddock series for 78.1 Festschrift: David Brooks The Sheep That I am By Orpheus (Pumpkin) Merino [Transcribed into human language by Teya Brooks Pribac] ‘What is a...
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Simeon Kronenberg: “Rain” and “Unaccompanied”
These poems are part of the Long Paddock series for 78.1 Festschrift: David Brooks. Unaccompanied Reading The Unaccompanied, Simon Armitage You write of an igniting field, scrapes on bone about...
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