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Tasmania slams on
The 2013 Australian Poetry Slam competition is well underway, with heats happening across the mainland for the last couple of months: and in July, this breathless exhilarating word music lovesong...
View ArticleSUBSCRIBATHON #9: First Rights
Win one of ten copies of First Rights: A Decade Of Island Magazine (ed. Michael Denholm & Andrew Sant) …when you subscribe to Island. Yes, there have been some changes taking place at Island...
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On food, to begin with an ache – part two
Part two Matthew Evans, former food critic and most recently known for his Gourmet Farmer television series and books, takes an approach based on the understanding that farming well comes with a...
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Science Poetry Prize 2013
WIN $1000. And publication. Australian Poetry is proud to announce a new prize for Science Poetry. Poetry submitted must have a theme which explores scientific understandings and achievements. Science...
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Silver Island part two
And one full moon night, the sea shimmered with silver and light spilled as if summoned by Merlin transforming this Island into Avalon – while waves whispered to each other like Lancelot’s...
View ArticleIsland where you are
Island at Splendour. Picture Courtesy of Kate H. Send your pics* for Island where you are to lesley@islandmag.com *Please include a short caption, and details of where it was taken and by whom.
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Silver Island, A State of Poetry
A State of Poetry Gold fire, blue glaze; thin tangle of cirrus thread; No stir of air, no bird’s flight overhead. The fleece of snow sweats crystal in the sun; And secretly a thousand rivulets run...
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Tasmania: Whose Place?
Over the last three Sundays of July scientists and minds from the humanities came together for a discussion series titled The Larger Conversations. Chaired by Jeff Malpas, the three topics were...
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Poets and Painters
Silver Island Poets and Painters: A Tribute to Dick Bett AM Near the end of North Hobart’s ever-expanding sprawl of restaurants and shops lies the Bett Gallery. Last Friday, the 3rd August, saw the...
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WRITE-ON Literature and Change
WRITE-ON Part One LITERATURE & CHANGE WRITE-ON is an underground literary movement operating out of the East and South East of London, set up by Tasmanian Tadhg Muller and Londoner Sean Preston....
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Notes from The Longest Write – David Winter of Text Publishing
In June, Island held The Longest Write, a fully catered weekend of workshops and writing time dedicated to the art, craft and business of writing. Taking place over the Winter Solstice weekend of June...
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Liam James’ Newstart Payments
Exhibition at Sawtooth ARI An object glistens, stuck between one form and another; where expectation of function succumbs to aesthetic indulgence. Flowers blossom alongside uncertainty. Surfaces are...
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Who pays the writer? And how?
There are two related items that I’m going to discuss here. One item is Island’s new contributor fee policy. The other is the more general notion of writers getting paid for their work. As this more...
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International Story Day
‘DEAR DIARY! One of my best friends just died. I knew he was going to die before he turned thirty, but I still cannot fathom a world that he doesn’t exist in. I am going to buy heroin. I don’t know...
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The Last Days of Painting
On Chris Bond Artist from Island 133 In early August Chris was awarded the 2013 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery. In wanting to express gratitude he sent us an email...
View ArticleIsland 134 launches North and South
For the first time in our living memory, Island is holding launches in both the North and South of the state. The Launceston launch will take place at Sawtooth ARI on Saturday September 21st at 2pm. It...
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WRITE ON – Birth of a Literary Movement
WRITE-ON is a underground literary movement operating out of the East and South East of London, set up by the Tasmanian Tadhg Muller and Londoner Sean Preston. In their holes and side-rooms, the...
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A Letter to the Thing I Wish I’d Written
Here is a short, and strategically limited list of things that I love: hand-written letters, wine, Twin Peaks, and non-pretentious celebrations of creativity. You’d almost think I was talking about...
View ArticleIsland From Where You Are…in Amsterdam
Island Issue 134 being enjoyed by our web-editor, Lesley in Amsterdam! Picture Courtesy of Lesley H. Send your pics* for Island where you are to lesley@islandmag.com *Please include a short caption,...
View ArticleThe Narrow Road to the Deep North
If a book is made into a film, do you read the book first? Or watch the film and then maybe read the book? I went to see Richard Flanagan in conversation with Jason Steger*, without having read his...
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