Southerly Volume 71 No 1: Modern Mobilities, Australian-Transnational Writing

Description

This issue focuses on the flow of Australian writing across cultures and borders to celebrate the diversity of new writing in this modern mobile era and to consider its many complexities. The issue includes writing from Australian residents of many backgrounds and from expat Australians at the far-flung reaches of the globe. Indicative of this range are fiction writer Hoa Pham reflecting on 'Finding a place in the world: Vietnamese-Australian diasporic writing'; artist Elizabeth Day thinking through the connections between her native Liverpool in England and Liverpool in Southwestern Sydney; and Australian-Canadian author Jonathan Bennett witnessing the release of his ties to Australia as he writes more and more in the Canadian idiom. As befits this large theme, the issue is crammed with wonderful material across the genres of short fiction, poetry, reviews and essays.