Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
Where the Rivers Meet is a remarkable collection of new fiction, essays, and poetry from Australia, a complex society and a country with a multilayered history. Among Australia’s many resources is a large community of outstanding writers that includes a growing number of novelists, poets, and essayists of Indigenous descent. Their stories—many of them previously untold in literature—deepen and expand our understanding of the experiences that make up Australia’s past and present.
Editor’s Note, vii
ESSAYS
The Rivers of Babylon, 1
Deborah Bird Rose
Walk My Country, 7
Robyn Davidson
Not Quite White in the Head, 23
Melissa Lucashenko
On the Edge, 61
Ashley Hay
How’s Your Day Been?, 126
Don Watson
FICTION
The Bulldozer, 33
Tony Birch
from Home, 45
Larissa Behrendt
The Bullock Run, 68
Roger McDonald
Republic of Love, 100
Delia Falconer
from Swallow the Air, 106
Tara June Winch
from Benang, 112
Kim Scott
from Bitin’ Back, 131
Vivienne Cleven
from Earth, 145
Bruce Pascoe
from Carpentaria, 167
Alexis Wright
POETRY
Three Poems, 18
Samuel Wagan Watson
Two Poems, 21
John Mateer
Three Poems, 40
Kevin Hart
Two Poems, 43
John Jenkins
Three Poems, 56
Louise Crisp
Two Poems, 58
Adrienne Eberhard
Suddenly, Trees, 96
Martin Harrison
Four Poems, 98
Luke Davies
Inlet, 105
Judith Beveridge
Four Poems, 121
David Malouf
Three Poems, 141
Louise Oxley
Coogee, 161
Stephen Edgar
Among the Mountains of Guang-Xi Province, in Southern China, 163
Robert Gray
Two Poems, 165
Mark Tredinnick
