A note on the contributors to this issue.

ERN MALLEY: NEW POEMS

Escape Clause
A Fool To Care
Prospect of KB as a Young Critic
I Have Gone Missing From the World
Pedestrian Verse
Parasol
Hygienic Lily
Melancholia,
Six Works
Things To Do In Perth

ETHEL MALLEY

Ethel Malley Strikes Back
Sonnet

ERN MALLEY'S CAT

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Robert Kennedy: The Journey (Death) Of a Library - "The library put together by poet Harold Stewart, poet and the co-author of the Ern Malley poems, Australia's greatest literary hoax, is a precious library..." More ...

Lucina Kathmann: Destination Kurdistan - "The Kurdish Center of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, invited me, as an International Vice-president of PEN, to travel with a group of Kurdish writers through Kurdistan in March, 2005. More ...

Ali Alizadeh on Wuhan's contemporary identity: "... in spite of ideological and legal issues and restrictions, new cutting-edge poetry grows across China's cyberspace; and all of this is happening in spite of a rapid, and some might say rabid, modernisation and commercialisation." More ...

EDITORIAL: "It's sobering to reflect that while Malley's twin Gepettos James Macauley and Harold Stewart, along with his original sponsor Max Harris, have passed from this world, Ern's legend lives on. What is it about Ern Malley that refuses to die? More ...