Category: Issue Six
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Eugen Bacon reflects on Issue Six.
What is so special about Other Terrain? The diversity it offers. Together with an enthusiastic team of editors, we came across distinct pieces in fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews, each with its unique gaze at the world around us, at the universe of our minds. What inspires writers? Why, see those stories cartwheel around…
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Anne Casey reflects on Issue Six.
In considering poems for publication in Other Terrain, we seek to be moved in some way. Beyond cleverness and adept use of devices, we want to be challenged or changed – shake us, rattle us, wake us, slay us! For us, that is one of the greatest gifts of poetry, to be transported out of the…
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Strand
By Felicity Plunkett Every poem has a secret addressee. Every secret a shoreline. Mine loosens like a tooth. I wake to three knocks. Three times no one there. Knocks echo through an empty house until I am empty of dreams. An owl at noon means death. Your death eyeing me, still, from a tree one leafless…
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Marked
By Kathryn Lamont Prologue: It became apparent in the year 2700 that collective memories and artefacts would not be enough to remember the events of the past. If left unattended, a millennia’s worth of information, achievements and lessons would be lost. The solution, presented in the year 3021, was time travel. Brave men and…
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Clear Shelter
By Avi Leibovitch The benches were too wet to sit on, so I stood like everyone else on the platform. The rain tapped a furious rhythm on the concrete ground. I was tired after a long day at the office, and the thought of going home and collapsing into bed had me clenching my…
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Pseudopangea
By Jeremy C. North The land was once one. It stood as a lone entity, encompassing every continental body so rigorously defined by mappers in present day. There were no arguments about whether the borders between Europe and Asia were arbitrary, or if the Americas should be better categorised as one unit. There was only…
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Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke’s first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 to both public and critical acclaim. Her second collection, When the Tree Falls will be published by Bloodaxe in 2019. She will also have an illustrated sequence of poems, All the Way Home,published by Smith/Doorstop in 2019. In 2017 she was awarded an Arts…
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Begging Another Draft
By Lyn Zelen Call yourself a writer? The thoughts spit back at me, mocking my fingers as they hover over the keyboard. No, I can’t. I’m not ready. Self-deprecating comments spin around my brain at Formula One speed. That chapter is not good enough for the memoir; it’s begging another draft. The cushion behind my lumbar…
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AU S T R A L I A N A I R
By Solli Raphael Air it’s the invisible goodness, that links our brain with full gain, so we can think without a strain, and without it, we would probably go insane. And it goes through our blood veins, and acts like a water main, the more we get, the more our plants grow, the more…
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BANDIT
(1999-2016)By Judith Beveridge Published in Sun Music: New and Selected Poems, Giramondo Publishing, 2018. Read Judith’s interview here.
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Who owns the field?
by Jane Clarke Published in The River (Bloodaxe Books 2015).
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Kangaroo Moon
By Michael Farrell Published in I Love Poetry (Giramondo 2017). Translated by Iris Fan.
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The hawk in your thoughts
by Michael Aiken.
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It’s all grist for the mill.
By Jessica Murdoch. Stephen King, Dr. Roxane Gay, Phillip Pullman, Joanne Harris, J.K. Rowling, John Marsden, Oodgeroo Noonuccal. The list of writers who teach (or used to) is a long and illustrious one. These two roles seem to be two paths which are able to successfully intertwine. What is it about these careers that make…
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A Ghazal: in Europe
By Jayant Kashyap After our ship took to air, through the skies, the first prayers we swore in Europe. Reaching the clouds weather took dramatic turns, but omens much we forbore in Europe. When we touched what we had never known, we thought, what remained but to explore in Europe? With every good touch of…
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Something More for Tracey
By Karla Whitmore This poem is a response to Tracey Moffatt’s photographic series entitled Something More (1989) in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. It is 87 words in length. I was interested in the narrative of Tracey’s journey as an artist from her beginnings in Australia and the way she has used colour and constructed outback imagery…
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Flight of the Rohingya
By Frances Roberts Water and a little food snatched up containers a rug a pole survival driven humanity pouring from a fissure abandoning home again the road to Bangladesh. An exodus of tears how long a time for winter or perhaps for ever so many children walking crying no carrying now no destination’s welcome but…
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Interview with Susan Carland
Interviewed by Abby Claridge. Like many feminists, Susan Carland faces criticism for her views. But, unlike many Western feminists, her Muslim faith is often bought up in an effort to delegitimize her views. For those who do not prescribe to a religious viewpoint, it can be hard to understand how a religion that the media…
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Review of Eugen Bacon’s fiction
By Roanna Gonsalves Eugen Bacon writes with cheekiness and a fierce intelligence that shines through every page of her work. Right from the first sentence, the voices of each of her narrators grab the reader with their lucidity, their panache, and their uncompromising observational rigour. This rigour manifests itself in the freshness of Bacon’s prose,…
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Selfies on my Mind
By Jacob Parsons I have a confession to make: I am a millennial that has never shared a selfie on social media. I feel very much in the minority here. Posting a selfie is a display of self-consciousness I have never felt comfortable with. I do, however, share my writing at any opportunity. A friend…