For Alan 2018, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 240 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
NO THEME VIII Editorial: Claire Gaskin
Artwork:
10 Works by Richard Bell
Essays:
Shipwrecks in Modern European Painting and Poetry: Radical Mobilisation of the Motif as Political Protest by Marion May Campbell
Residence: Dwelling with The Shards (an essay) by Kate Middleton and Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax
Chapbooks:
Brutalism: Poems by Alex Creece
Imperfect Growth: a Travel Log by Courtney Sina Meredith
Translations:
4 Translated Kim Seung-hee Poems by Brother Anthony of Taizé
4 Self-translations by Danijela Trajković
Interviews:
‘A means of resistance’: Susie Anderson Interviews Alison Whittaker
Nothing makes me feel my fallibility more than editing a literary journal, marking papers or judging a literary competition. I can be wrong. I can be unclear. I can miss things. 
In ‘The Day’, Harris writes a stunning eschatology for Gough Whitlam. For Harris the dismissal was ‘the day of deceit’, ‘the day to lose heart’. As I write this review, I too am demoralized and anxious, despite the beta-blockers. 
Why EARTH? Because we are of it, because we are destroying it, because there is nowhere else.
