Originally published in Oz Arts Edition 18 Locust Jones is a chronicler who has assumed the gaze of the witness, sketching and narrating the crimes and misdemeanours of a culture in descent.
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Lucy Culliton Story originally appeared in Oz Arts Magazine Lucy Culliton collects things. She collects doilies and dahlias and flowers in vases that dry out and make shadows on the mantlepiece. She collects emus and other people’s pigs and pigeons; horses in paddocks; and greyhounds on couches who lounge around the fire in winter. She […]
The Backsliders Story originally appeared in Timber and Steel When God made good musicians he sent them to church on Sundays. When he made really great ones, he sent them to the mouth of the Mississippi, to drink from the unholy waters of the delta blues. For even God could tell the devil was onto […]
Myles and Milo Dunphy In the Easter holidays of 1931, a group of bushwalkers set out to explore the Grose River Valley – a pristine wilderness area to the east off Govett’s Leap in Blackheath. They were headed for Blue Gum Forest – an area famous for its tall, majestic stands of the rare gum, […]