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Journal Blitz 6
Posted on 11 December 2020 | 1 comment
I subscribe to a number of literary journals as a way of supporting Australian cultural workers – specifically writers. I generally read the journals I subscribe to, plus occasional others: the prospect of this reading tends to loom as an obligation as the pile of unread journals grows, but the reading itself dependably turns out to be a joyful and invigorating experience. Then I blog, in the hope of communicating some of that pleasure, and possibly encouraging some of my readers to back these crucial enterprises. So here goes, with three journals that were published, um, some time ago …
Jacinda Woodhead (editor), Overland 236 (Spring 2019)
I mistakenly wrote that Overland 235 was the last issue of the journal edited by Jacinda Woodhead. This one is actually her second last, and the new editors have brought out their third issue as I'm writing.
Overland 236 kicks off with two excellent articles. (Links are to the full items on the Overland web site.) In 'After hours' Leigh Hopkinson, herself a former stripper, writes about the death of a stripper in a Melbourne club (Overland tend to be Melbourne-centred), and uses the case as a springboard to describe the terrible, and worsening, conditions of women who work in the adult entertainment industry. In 'The great acceleration' Jeff Sparrow traces the history by which cars came to be established as the dominant, 'natural' mode of transport in the USA. Did you know, for instance, that before the automobile industry made a concerted effort to introduce the concept of a jaywalker, the term jaydriver was in common use, meaning someone who drove a car in the city with cloddish disregard of the danger for pedestrians, especially children?
There are more articles later, of which two stand out for me. But then, face to face by Joanna Horton is a wonderful account of the joys – and difficulties – of door-knocking for the Greens. Tina Ngata's Toppling Cook puts a strong case, from an Aotearoa/New Zealand perspective, against celebrating the 250th anniversary of James Cook's voyages of exploration.
Guest artist Sam Wallman has three spreads of sequential art (what some might call comics) that are brilliantly accessible lessons in recent English history, specifically the Sun boycott in the Liverpool region, the Annual Durham Miners' Gala and the Grenfell Tower fire.
There are 13 pages of interesting and challenging poetry. My North Queensland heart leads me to single out 'Toad' by Damen O'Brien, which begins:
Toad in the garden, which is the same as
a snake in Eden or a crack in a mirror.
and includes the gorgeously evocative line:
Inexhaustible armies of malevolence
Of the especially rich batch of short stories, the ones that most struck me are Jack Vening's 'Don't tell me', a runner-up in the Victoria University Short Story Prize, and Allanah Hunt's 'Running to home', winner of the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. No spoilers from me on either of them.
Elizabeth McMahon (editor), Southerly Vol 78 No 3 2018: Violence (2019)
Southerly, after 80 years of publication Australia's second-oldest literary journal*, is in trouble. In March this year the editors published a plea for help on Facebook, and in October the website went down with a promise of reappearing soon – we're still waiting. The editors, who aren't paid for their work, have set up a crowdfunding platform at https://gum.co/wYZRP in the hope of prolonging the journal's life. As a reader I'm still back in 2019, and though the editors were already desperately chasing funds then, the journal itself came out, behind schedule but in rude good health. There has been at least one issue since.
Like the Overland, this Southerly starts very strongly, with three poems: jenni nixon's 'knock on the door at 6am' is an impressionistic narrative that earns the right to its epigraph from Gandhi, 'poverty is the worst form of violence'; Brenda Saunders' 'Boab tree, Derby' comes at the famous 'Prison Tree' in a number of choral voices (click here if you want to know about the tree); Andy Jackson's 'To name what we feel' enacts the ambivalence of working on a phone-in service for violent men.
And it goes on from there, compellingly. There's memoir (including Brenda Downing's writerly 'Letter to the Editor' in which she arrives at a huge ethical dilemma when she tracks down the man who sexual abused her when she was very young), essay (including David Brooks' 'A Roo Battue', on the continuing mass slaughter of kangaroos, which raises the spectre of extinction for some species), short stories (including Winnie Dunn's brilliant 'Wanting to be White', a drama set in a Western Sydney Starbucks). I usually skip the scholarly articles, but Fiona Morrison's 'The Antiphonal Time of Violence in Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife' was a way to revisit the pleasures of a great night in the theatre. Likewise I tend to skip or skim the reviews, but Rachael Versace's review of David Malouf's An Open Book, by quoting generously and incisively, opened the door to revisiting the pleasures of that book.
There is one moment of eerie prescience in this Southerly. Josephine Clarke's 'transnational' laments the way technology, while enabling connection over great distances, still leaves us bodily unconnected. Covid–19 wasn't even a blip on the horizon when it was published, yet there's this:
what if I take ill? who will come back /
come home / come through
and hold my hand      my real hand
where the creases run labyrinthine across my palm
– my palm where your newborn head once rested
and was safe
*The oldest is a children's literary journal, The School Magazine, published since 1915 by the NSW Department of Education.
Andy Jackson and Jennifer Harrison (editors), Australian Poetry Journal Volume 9, Number 2: DIS– (2019)
Andy Jackson and Jennifer Harrison, guest editors of this issue of Australian Poetry Journal, are both poets and advocates for writers with self-identified disability/ies. They have collected more than 60 poems related to disability, aiming, as Andy's foreword puts it:
… for a diversity of voices, in many senses of that word – bodily experience, cultural background, age, gender, philosophy, aesthetic. We also strongly prioritised poems of lived experience, including the voices of carers, friends, lovers – poems of solidarity and care that recognise that distancing ourselves from disability is impossible.
By arranging the poems, mostly, in reverse alphabetical order of poem title, the editors have added an extra stroke of disorder: each poem stands on its own, spatially disconnected from others on the same subject or by the same author, defying easy categorisation. The effect is indeed a marvellous 'diversity of voices', all dealing one way or another with disability. As Jennifer Harrison says in her Foreword:
What poetry gives us is birdsong alongside activism, the outside word alongside the internal world of emotions, hope shadowing despair … Poetry has a unique ability to see behind doors previously closed …
In this journal, many poets opens doors to whole worlds of difference.
A number of them are poets whose work I already know. Fiona Wright, who has written a lot about her own struggles, speaks to someone who may be a version of her younger self in 'poem for jessie' ('I want you to remember / how to want'). David Brooks makes translation look easy with a version of Baudelaire's 'The Albatross', which in this context becomes a powerful metaphor for physical disability. Samuel Wagan Watson's 'DISlocation' captures a raw moment of betrayal ('I may have challenges but my sensory perception is still sharp').
Mal McKimmie's 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbirds' is wonderful. It begins:
There are no 'blackbirds with disabilities' –
_____________all blackbirds can fly.
There are only 'blackbirds with disabilities' –
_____________all blackbirds will one day fall from the sky.
E A Gleeson, whose bio tells us that she 'cares for her sister who lives with significant physical and intellectual challenges' gives us a graphic childhood vignette in 'The First Seizure'. Oliver Mills, in 'De-Coding', speaks clearly and succinctly, and wittily, about the difficulty of being understood when you have cerebral palsy, as he does: :
When I'm out of breath
Or having a lazy laugh
I make the sound of a creaking door
I could go on quoting. There's plenty here for anyone interested in poetry. There are drawings, as well as poems, by people with mental illness diagnoses and people with learning difficulties. Just reading the poets' bios is a revelation of the myriad ways the body and mind can differ from the typical. Even if you're (temporarily) non-disabled and not interested in poetry, these pages may expand your world immensely. They have mine.
As a bonus, up the back, half a dozen pages are given over to Rachael Mead, winner of the 2019 Australian Poetry/Nature, Art & Habitat Residency. She lived in a village in the Taleggio Valley in northern Italy in June 2019, and three of the poems she write during her stay there are reproduced here. What with one thing and another, it's glorious to read her poem, 'Pacing myself', about waking in that beautiful place, so far beyond the reach of most of us just now.
Speaking of journals, there's some good news on the horizon concerning Heat, which ceased publication in 2011, after 39 issues in two series over 15 years. According to the Giramondo web site, 'The third series of Heat, in a new design and format, will be published from 2022.'
Tagged Allanah Hunt, Andy Jackson, Baudelaire, Brenda Downing, Brenda Saunders, Damen O'Brien, David Brooks, David Malouf, Elizabeth McMahon, Fiona Morrison, Fiona Wright, Jacinda Woodhead, Jack Vening, Jeff Sparrow, Jenni Nixon, Jennifer Harrison, Joanna Horton, Josephine Clarke, journals, Leah Purcell, Leigh Hopkinson, Mal McKimmie, Rachael Mead, Rachael Versace, Sam Wagan Watson, Sam Wallman, Tina Ngata, Winnie Dunn
I subscribe to literary journals partly for pleasure and partly as an act of civic responsibility, and lately (only lately?) I've neglected to keep up with reading them. This is my fourth blog post in five months reporting on a catch-up read, starting this time with a journal I don't actually subscribe to.
The Blak Women's Brow Collective (Editors), Blak Brow (#40 of The Lifted Brow 2018)
Though I've heard plenty about the Melbourne-based The Listed Brow, this is the first issue of I've read – it came to me by way of the Book(-Swapping) Club.
When the editors of The Lifted Brow approached Paola Balla, whose bio describes her in part as a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara woman based at the Moondani Balluk Indigenous Centre at Victoria University, she 'saw the opportunity to work collectively and went for it' (the quote is from the journal's editorial). Edited by a collective of Blak women – Blak, a note on the inside cover explains, was coined by artist Destiny Deacon in 1990, and names the lived experience and identity of urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples – Blak Brow has a strong collective feel, and is rich with voices speaking of the lived experience of Blakness.
There are strong individual voices: 'Fight or Flight', a wicked short story by Melissa Lukashenko; 'Fern Your Own Gully', a poem by Evelyn Araluen that savages the May Gibbsian version of the bush; 'Because of You I Can', a pair of short essays by poet Ellen Van Neerven and her mother Maria Van Neerven-Currie; 'The Crucial Voices of Aboriginal Women', an account by Celeste Liddle of the struggle to be more than a token Aboriginal presence on panel presentations.
But those are exceptions: while all of the voices here are strong and clear, most of them carry a sense of representing a constituency. The powerful first speech of Lidia Thorpe, first Aboriginal woman to be elected to a lower house seat in the Parliament of Victoria, is given in full. She captures the tone of most of the writing in Blak Brow when she says: 'I have been inundated with messages from Aboriginal people across the country. I speak today on behalf of them.' Even intense accounts of personal experience – 'Binak' and 'A Room with a View' – are followed by brief essays explaining that they are 'composites', the first 'bringing together the real experiences of young women' who have come under youth justice supervision in Victoria; the second, written by Vicki Roach, 'a composite of [her] own and many other women's lived experiences of finding housing when released from gaol'.
It's a very rich collection of poems, song lyrics, fiction, art, journalism, scholarly writing, speeches to parliament and to a Federation of Community Legal Centres symposium, memoir, reports on art projects and academic ventures, and more. Some of it, as in the WAR response to attacks on their members, is very raw. As a middle-class white man in my early seventies, I was challenged, informed, delighted, and then challenged some more.
John Kinsela (guest Editor), Australian Poetry Journal 9.1: resist (2019)
This is a brilliant collection of poetry. John Kinsela, guest editor, says in his unusually long introduction:
We have a collective responsibility to live justly, and to work for mutual justice … , understanding each other, and respecting difference. Again, poetry is one of the most effective and linguistically affecting ways of achieving this. The poem as thing in itself is … a form of 'agora' in so many ways. Even very disparate issues of justice can find common ground.
The poems cover a huge range of 'issues' in a magnificent diversity of voices and poetic forms, and a strong sense emerges of 'common ground'. As I read, I started out turning down the corners of pages I wanted to revisit and/or mention here, but soon gave up because there were too many – this blog post would have ended up as little more than a list. I'll restrict myself to just a couple poems – passing over some wonderful poems in silence! (Oh well, almost in silence. Let me mention Evelyn Araluen's 'Mrs Kookaburra Addresses the Natives', which like her 'Fern Your Own Gully' in Blak Brow, makes very funny and very unsettling use of language from May Gibbs's children's books; Eileen Chong's 'Rot', on violence against women; Sarah Day's 'Nation', on bullying; Dan Disney's 'let us rejoice' an eerie mash-up of speeches by Scott Morrison and (I think) Hitler; Lisa Gorton's 'EKPHRASIS I. THE NYMPH OF FONTAINEBLEAU', which juxtaposes an art critic's comments on a painting with narrative about the exploitation that accompanied its creation; Jennifer Maiden's 'Umbrage in Vault Seven', a current adventure of George and Clare; Jaya Savige's 'Spork', on racism within a family. The list could go on.) I'm pretty sure that anyone interested in poetry or social/political issues will find something here that strikes a deep chord.
A little more detail on two moments in the collection.
The first is Toby Fitch's 'The Last Few Budgets in a Nutshell'. At a quick look this just looks weird. It begins:
Torquing about debt is always exshiting but
weaken nut and muscle knot becomb a carbone
cuppy of the Labna Putty.
The penny drops, and you realise that a politician's speech (perhaps a particular one, perhaps a composite) has been tortured. There's probably a word for this process: key words are replaced by words that sound something like them so that 'Talking' becomes 'Torqueing', 'we cannot' becomes 'weaken nut' and so on. For the reader then, there's a double perception: we read the words on the page and hear the original. To do this and make it something more than just a bit of nonsensical clever-dickery is a challenge, and Toby Fitch pulls it off: those first lines give a whiff of the biting satire that he creates. This poem has stayed with me because its technique so beautifully captures and even generates the feeling one has when listening to political spin, and also perhaps a little because it makes me feel smart!
My second moment is call-and-response pair of poems by Kaitlen Wellington ('It's about time') and Alison Whittaker ('In response to Kaitlen Wellington's "It's About Time"') respectively. It took just a slight deviation from alphabetical order to have these poems appear consecutively (Rae White's 'Rainbow confetti pixels' graciously allowed Alison Whittaker's poem to nudge ahead of it in the queue).
'It's about time' is very straightforward – the speaker goes 'walkin old tracks', reconnecting with traditional Indigenous knowledge, 'lookin for some sarsparalla':
Walkin, walkin
sticks, stones
dreamin track her, there
watch ya step.
We surrounded by the richest green,
earth's soil moist,
dry leaves scatter our path,
we are locked in our country's
secure embrace
It's not just a bush walk, at least not what a seventy-something whitefella like thinks of as a bush walk. 'A sea eagle is 'lettin us know, / "It's about time youse come walkabout here"'. The final stanza begins:
We know what to do now:
unite, fight and teach.
Let our mob know
ain't no takin our culture away no more.
It's a good poem. I was seduced by its idiosyncratic spelling, especially of 'sarsparalla', because that's how we pronounced it in my North Queensland childhood – though we were talking about a softdrink, not a bush medicine. I could feel its seriousness, and then moved on … to Alison Whittaker's response.
She begins with a question, 'What does it mean to resist in this colony?' and goes on to describe the cycle of necessary work – 'in the courts of the public or in institutional tribunals' – and necessary self-care. 'I become a consistently self-optimising tool. In some ways, indistinguishable in discipline and form from that which I am resisting.' Kaitlen Wellington's poem brought the insight that there must be more than that cycle. She concludes: 'What's the point of making a nicer colony, when you can breathe sovereignty?'
This poem and this response to it offer something profound, not just for people who are the targets and survivors of colonisation and genocide, but to anyone up against any oppressive force. If you get a chance to browse this journal, do flip through to page 99 and read to the end of page 101. But don't stop there.
Jacinda Woodhead (editor), Overland 234 (Autumn 2019)
This issue of Overland is bookended by two excellent articles from the Wrights.
Alexis Wright, in Telling the untold stories, begins with the problem facing writers in today's increasingly chaotic world:
The question for the writer of stories is how to fight your way through imposed boundaries of indifference, ignorance, or political interests, and to perhaps learn how to do this by not getting directly into the ring and wrestling the pig 'because a. it is only going to get dirty, and b. you will get dirty as well'.
and she relates this to the survival of aboriginal stories through the catastrophe of colonisation. It's a magnificent essay, an excerpt from her Stephen Murray-Smith talk given in December 2018 (available in full online here).
Fiona Wright (probably only a very distant relation) writes about Tinder in State your intentions. Sometimes intensely personal, sometimes confidently snarky, this is a beautifully executed mosaic picture of what it is to be young and happily(?) single today.
Of the regular columnists, Tony Birch's On thinking is the stand-out. Writing partly as a tribute to Deborah Bird Rose (my review of one of her books here), who died at the end of 2018, he quotes her:
Any conversation we humans may wish to start up concerning the living world, our place in it and our responsibility toward it must bear the knowledge of the terrible harms we have done and continue to do.
and pits that against Tony Abbott's famous remark, 'Climate change is crap.'
There are four pieces of short fiction – In Cassilis by Louis Klee, Buried time by Mykaela Saunder, 'Into the valley' by Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi, and 'The melancholy new patriot' by Corey Wakeling – introduced by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, who at the time of publication hadn't yet been announced as due to become joint editors of Overland late this year. There are just three poems, the place-getters in the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, by Julie Jedda Janson, Joel Scott and Ross Belton.
As well as these, there are articles on Cambodia (That bird is for us by Adam Curley, which takes an episode of something called Survivor as his starting point), Kashmir (Combat breathing by Tim Robertson), burning-off as a gross and destructive distortion of Aboriginal firestick farming practices (The fire cult by Katherine Wilson), current prejudice against Chinese people (Not all yellow and white by Gabriel Ng), and an essay on swimming pools and the beach that makes an excellent companion piece to the ABC doco series The Pool (Aqua Profonda by Gavin Scott).
The cover and moody internal artwork for this issue are by photographer Hoda Afshar.
I was going to include a review of Southerly 78.2, which I'm still reading, but if you've read this far I think you deserve a rest, so I'll save that for the next catch-up blitz.
Tagged Alison Croggon, Alison Flett, Alison Whittaker, Allison Gallagher, Andrew Burke, Bella Li, Brenda Saunders, Bruce Beaver, Celeste Liddle, Dan Disney, David Brooks, Dean Biron, Eileen Chong, Elanna Herbert, Elfie Shiosaki, Ellen van Neerven, Evelyn Araluen, Gareth Jenkins, Giovanni Tiso, Humphrey McQueen, Jacinda Woodhead, Jaya Savige, Jeff Guess, Jennifer Maiden, Jennifer Mills, Jill Jones, John Kinsella, Jordie Albiston, journals, Judith Beveridge, Kaitlen Wellington, Kevin Gillam, Kirsten Krauth, Lidia Thorpe, Lisa Gorton, Maria Van Neerven-Currie, Mary Leunig, Melissa Lucashenko, Michelle Hamadache, Omar Sakr, Paola Balla, Rachael Mead, Rae White, Sarah Day, Toby Fitch, Tony Birch, Tricia Dearborn, Tyson Yunkaporta, Vicki Roach, Vrasidas Karalis, WAR (Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance), Wayne Macauley, Zenobia Frost
Posted on 13 September 2019 | Leave a comment
Here are some notes from a third journal catch-up binge. One more blitz and I'll be temporarily up to date.
Jill Jones and Bella Li (editors), Australian Poetry Anthology Volume 6 (2018)
This is Australian Poetry Inc's sixth annual anthology of member's poetry. The editors' foreword begins with the question, 'What could Australian poetry look like at the moment?' and goes on to suggest that this anthology could be one way it looks. I love that refusal to be definitive. And I don't envy the editors the task of selecting what turned out to be 64 poems from nearly a thousand that were submitted. Hard enough for me as a mere blogger to name poems that meant something to me.
I turned down page corners as I went (yes, I read – and mutilated – the hard copy, leaving the digital version unsullied on my desktop). Here are the poems with dog-ears:
Kevin Gillam, 'call it that': 34 lines of three one-syllable words that capture the deep relief of 'fat rain / call it that' after a long dry
Rachael Mead, 'Catastrophic Fire Danger: level 6', which is painfully topical just now – 'I scan the blue for smoke. Plants, words, thoughts /all crackle to dust in this catastrophic light.'
Toby Fitch, 'Cultivate a New Foot': tantalisingly almost coherent, rich wordplay – 'incredibly the gossiping planet / will still be there on the weekend / no madder how many selfies weaken the collective / labour / bargaining agreement'
Gareth Jenkins, 'Dream sequence': I probably noted this because Gareth Jenkins read beautifully at the recent Francis Webb reading. It's 10 very short (one to three lines) poems that have the uncanniness of dream.
Brenda Saunders, 'Figures in a landscape': a First Nations voice speaks back to a colonial painting of Sydney Harbour – 'I am not in this picture. Invisible, I fall / easily into shadow, watch the ladies walk / float white as sails on water.'
Jordie Albiston, 'gasp': previously unpublished, this feels as if it's from a longer sequence – some great upheaval in the ocean and 'our strange & / elusive beast of the deep flipped & flopped / in an agony of light & without / any sound drowned in a great flood of air'
Tyson Yunkaporta, 'No Cure for Colour Blind': I haven't understood this poem yet, but there's a lot in it about traditional knowledge ('You can't hear that story boy') and Indigenous perspectives.
Elanna Herbert, 'SIEV221 File Note: to mothers waiting': A Christmas Island landscape, sneaks up on the subject of deaths at sea announced in its title – 'If this was a different page / in the novel of Christmas Island / this would be the postcard beach.'
Zenobia Frost, 'Taming the Shrew': a sweet poem about a key moment in a young woman's life that had the perhaps unintended consequence of making me want to see the movie 10 Things I Hate About You
Tricia Dearborn, 'Therapist, dreamt':a kind of love poem to a therapist, the kind that probably wouldn't pose ethical issues for said therapist
Jeff Guess, 'Transgression of the Trees': a lament for ancient trees cut down for roadworks, which, though it was published a year ago, could be a poignant response to current violence against sacred trees in Victoria
Alison Flett, 'Vessel': An almost Proustian moment in which a child begins to understand something – 'a first meme / which will repost versions of itself again / and again in her brain
As with previous AP anthologies there are no stars, but much excellence. There's a huge variety of forms, and I hope I've given you a sense of the range of subjects.
Jacinda Woodhead (editor), Overland 233 (Summer 2018)
This issue of Overland kicks off with '26 January – or thereabouts' by the venerable Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen, a brief history of the Australia Day holiday that takes effective potshots in passing at any number commonly believed fallacies. Here are some fabulous factoids from the article:
It's not just the left and First Nations peoples calling for a change of date. Conservative historian Geoffrey Blainey and Hugh Morgan, mining magnate, have each pitched for a different day.
In the early 20th century Irish Catholics (my lot) celebrated 'Australia Day' on the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians (24 May). The Red Cross instituted 'Australia Day' on 30 June 1915 and 1916.
Though Victoria and South Australia pride themselves as having been established as 'free colonies', the South Australia Company actually 'floated on chattel-slavery' (a phrase McQueen, sadly, doesn't unpack) and ex-convict John Pascoe Fawkner may have a greater claim to be founder the Victorian colony than land thief Batman.
'Invasion Day', a term now reviled as a Marxist invention, is anything but: 'Invasion' was the word used by small-l liberal (Sir) Keith Hancock in 1930, and even more tellingly by the right-wing historian Sir Archibald Grenfell Price in White Settlers and Native People (1949). Marxist McQueen sinks the boot into soft-left Labor Party figures by pointing out that 'the academic convention of using "invasion" did not stop Queensland ALP premier Wayne Goss from erasing the term from the school curriculum'.
Terra nullius is 'a doctrine formed only in the late nineteenth century in relation to the status of the polar regions. That the High Court accepted terra nullius in Mabo confirms the venerable legal doctrine of Judicial Ignorance.' I knew this from reading Heather Goodall's Invasion to Embassy (my blog post is here), but the furphy that it was there from 1788 is so well established I'd forgotten the reality.
That's not the whole article: McQueen comes up with some positive though hardly serious suggestions for alternative dates, but I'll leave you to read them for yourself.
Of the regular columnists, Alison Croggon's , 'On the #MeToo movement', written before the Geoffrey Rush court case was concluded, is complex as ever. Tony Birch's column, 'On bullshit' is a fabulous rant against university bureaucracy. Giovanni Tiso ruminates on the wistful belief that we can learn things from tapes under the pillow while sleeping, in On learning French while you sleep.
Of the other articles, 'The eleven best Australian essays of the past 3,533 days' by Dean Biron is a spectacularly self-indulgent piece that manages to convince me that the eleven essays he singles out are worth looking up; 'Hand on heart' by Elfie Shiosaki draws a line connecting letters written to the WA 'Protector of Aborigines' by Aboriginal parents a century go and the 2018 twitter hashtag #IndigenousDads; 'Power ballet by Kirsten Krauth speaks from within women's wrestling fandom.
Jennifer Mills, Overland's fiction editor for many years, writes in defence of utopian/eutopian and dystopian fiction in 'Against realism' and then serves up a quartet of short fictions of decidedly dystopian bent, of which 'Noplace' by Claire G Coleman and 'Idle hands' by Wayne Macauley grabbed and held me.
The poetry section (yes, the poetry is gathered in one place – all the easier for poetryphobes to ignore, you might say) is filled with riches. My favourite single poem is 'Blessed be this sadness' by Omar Sakr, a meditation on suffering that has Les Murray's 'A Perfectly Ordinary Rainbow', acknowledged, in the background. My favourite lines are from 'Learning' by Allison Gallagher:
I am learning to live inside a broken thing
when I call this body a wreckage in the middle of the night
you ask me not to speak about your home that way
Overland always features the results of a literary competition. In this issue it's the Fair Australia Prize, an annual competition supported and funded by the National Union of Workers, and is made up of five general prizes worth $3000 each and three prizes for union members worth $1000 each. All the prize winners are worth reading, especially Laura Elvery's short story 'Your cart is empty' which raises chilling prospects and then chills from another, unexpected direction, and Miriam Jones's winning essay 'Care and cooperativism in early childhood', which argues that early childhood workers are ideally placed to take on the project of finding alternatives to capitalist ways of organising work.
As I write this, I've been reading news of Jacinda Woodhead's departure as editor. I guess I have a couple more of her issues left to read. I'll miss her.
Michelle Hamadache (guest editor), Southerly Vol 78 No 1 2018: Festschrift David Brooks
David Brooks has retired as editor of Southerly after two decades in the chair. In this issue, Southerly's community of writers and scholars celebrates his contribution, his work and his person.
The only festschrift I'd read before this was one I copy-edited decades ago. It honoured a distinguished psychology professor on his retirement and consisted of a number of learned papers about his contributions to his field. David Brooks, and Southerly itself, being concerned with literature, this festschrift isn't that straightforward. Some pieces are very personal, even intimate, replete with private jokes and tales of shared meals; others, especially the poems, have no easily discernible connection to Brooks. Only by the contents page could I tell whether some pieces were part of the festschrift or belonged in the 'Unthemed' category, and in the end I decided it didn't matter. What counts is that Brooks and the Southerly community can see the connection – the overarching effect of this issue is to demonstrate the existence of that community as warm, sometimes passionate, and far-reaching.
There are poems, short stories, and articles discussing Brooks's writing that range from a sober overview from Judith Beveridge to ecstatically personal, which is as it should be. There is frequent reference to his veganism and advocacy for 'non-human animals', including the rescue sheep who share his life in the Blue Mountains. Two letters address him personally – from fellow-vegan poet John Kinsella and Greek scholar Vrasidas Karalis. Brooks himself speaks in a poem, a short story and a long interview with Andrew Burke.
It's a good read over all, and full of excellence. I just want to single out three surprises.
In 'Letter to David Brooks from a Certain Greek Friend', Vrasidas Karalis seizes the moment to expound about Australian literary life, reaching a kind of climax of idiosyncrasy in this paragraph:
As a privileged outsider, I felt that the sacrificial act that established the new covenant of Australian poetry was the suicide of Adam Lindsay Gordon, renewed periodically by Francis Webb's madness and Michael Dransfield's drug-induced death. There is always something odd and tormented in Australian poetry, despite Les Murray's efforts to make everything cosy, tamed and over-poetical.
Linking Lindsay Gordon, Webb and Dransfield as Christ-figures is pretty wild, though interesting, but I'm in total awe of a world-view that sees truculent Les Murray as trying to make everything cosy.
The second surprise is a piece of serendipity. I read the Southerly after quoting those lines from Allison Gallagher in the Overland. I was brought up short, then, when I read, also in Vrasidas Karalis' wide-ranging letter:
I never understood why many writers are so tormented by the idea of home: there is one home only – our body (or on some rare occasions someone else's body)
(pag 91)
Third surprise is the short poem that ends the journal: 'Ballad', eight previously unpublished lines by Bruce Beaver, which begin:
I'm off to Hullaboola, where the climate's never cooler
than a ringside seat in Hell, they're growing corn there
That pops the while it's growing, and the reason why I'm going
Is because I hate the name and wasn't born there.
This is listed as part of the festschrift but as Beaver (I've blogged about his poetry here) died in 2004 he can't have written it with this publication in mind. On the one occasion when I met David Brooks he expressed great admiration of Beaver, so I guess that's why these lines are here. It's also somehow fitting that they are bouncily metrical and have lots of conventional rhyme, completely untypical of Bruce Beaver or of David Brooks, so after quite a lot of seriousness it's a lovely bit of cheek to end on.
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Australian Poetry Journal 4:2
Michael Sharkey (editor), Australian Poetry Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2 (2014)
I hope I don't sound too surprised when I say that this issue of Australian Poetry Ltd's twice-yearly journal is excellent. Any surprise isn't at the excellence, but at other factors. Most of the poems are remarkably accessible, for instance. And it was a pleasure to meet in its pages quite a few people whose work I know reasonably well. Andy Kissane takes on school bullying in 'Southerly': '
I know from talking to Joshua that Fridays
at lunchtime are the worst. He won't tell me what happens, he simply stares at his shoes.
joanne burns confronts a spider in 'watch tower a reconnaissance':
of cool voltaren no living creature has been
harmed in the writing of this poem except
perhaps the poet
Brendan Ryan ventures far from his native Victorian dairy farm in 'Cows in India'; B W Shearer, whom I know from my time in children's literature, pays homage to a rainbow lorikeet in 'A crowned queen'. I warmed to poems by Ron Pretty, Andrew Lansdown, Carol Jenkins, Liz Dolan, Rachael Mead, and they weren't the only ones.
Besides the poetry there are a number of interesting articles. Dan Disney and Kit Kelen call on poets to resist destructive politics, specifically regarding asylum seekers, to rouse themselves and readers 'from a collectively accepted nightmare', and they give robust examples, from John Mateer and Vicki Viidikas to Bertolt Brecht, of poets who have done so. Oscar Schwartz induces us to think about computer generated poetry in 'A Turing Test for Poetry', timely perhaps because of the movie The Imitation Game, and – to me – almost totally unconvincing. Simon Patton gives an insightful account of a translator–poet relationship in 'Translating Yu Jian: Encounter and transmission'. Vivian Gerrand interviews Claire Gaskin, who has interesting things to say about many things, in particular her writing process, and her belief that to be a decent writer you need to read three books a week (which makes me well on the way). Sarah Day profiles the all but forgotten Tasmanian poet Helen Power.
The journal is a perk of membership of Australian Poetry Ltd, and individual issues can be bought via the web site.
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Now You Shall Know the Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
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Dennis Haskell and Jean Kent (editors), Now You Shall Know: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2013 (Hunter Writers Centre, October 2013)
The Newcastle Poetry Prize is described on its website as 'the richest and most prestigious stand-alone poetry competition' in Australia. It has existed for more than three decades under one name or another, and for some years now the Hunter Writers Centre has published an anthology comprising the winner and a selection of other entries. This year's anthology, named for Jennifer Compton's winning poem, contains 27 poems and runs to 140 pages, so it's distinguished from other annual anthologies by including mainly longer poems.
The book is a feast, and even though it owes its existence to a poetry competition it's a beautiful demonstration of the silliness of pitting poems and poets against each other so that one must emerge as The Best. Not that I challenge the judges' decisions: all the prize winners and commended poems deserve to win. But so do almost all the others.
Among many pleasures, there's a strong element of place in the collection. Jennifer Compton's 'Now You Shall Know' kicks things off with a brilliant evocation of the non-place of a passenger plane in mid-flight. Of the two other prize winners, Karina Quinn's 'Always Going Home (a domestic cycle)' has a section named 'A nowhere place', which refers to a very specific not-quite-room in the family home, and among other things the poem is about the power exerted on the speaker by the place that is home; and Mark Tredinnick is in full Blue-Mountains-bardic flight in 'Two or Three Days with Claude Debussy in Late October'. In Kathryn Lomer's 'Vapour Trails over Sassafras' the speaker visits the Tasmanian landscape of her childhood. The dialogue in Ron Pretty's 'Picnicking on the Safety Ramp' creates a gloriously recognisable rural masculinity; Christopher Kelen's 'The Shed' is a location where a similar masculinity finds solitude; the title of Rachael Mead's 'Lake Eyre Cycle' doesn't mislead.
Two pieces resonated strongly for me as a north Queenslander. B R Dionysius' 'Unicorns Cross Here' is a sonnet sequence that tours the north, beginning with the giant statue of James Cook in Cairns and visiting the Daintree and the Atherton Tableland. Here are the opening lines of the third sonnet, describing the environment of my childhood:
Through the silk thin mist, sugarcane fields stand as Roman armies
At the end of empire. Forlorn, thirsty, they occupy the flat ground,
Blades held stiff as they form up, row upon green row in perfect
Drilled unison. A thousand years of domesticating iron has tamed
the wilderness. Axes bite deeper than words, saw teeth whisper in
Death's white noise. On the hills behind them, the rainforest seethes
In undisciplined chaos; disordered ranks thrown back in confusion.
Where Dionysius is a visitor to cane country, the speaker in Victoria McGrath's 'Cane Smoking' comes from there:
I was cradled deep within the blackened root of something
rank and rich in déjà vu, and my curves and crannies,
like so many cinerary urns, claimed without question
the confetti-ash that drifted inevitably to earth.
Carmel Macdonald Grahame's 'Wishful Thinking' isn't particularly a place poem, unless you count a certain kind of Catholic childhood as a place. From its first lines
You grew up learning not to say
things you were told you should not think
you know exactly where you are. The poem does what I would have thought impossible – it deals with child sexual abuse and keeps its head, even managing moments of playful wit:
it was never the cat that got your tongue,
it was the catechism.
There's much more, as they say in the ads. Andy Jackson's 'Marfan Lives', Ian Crittenden's 'The Red Soil Elegies', … Really, it's a wonderful collection.
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The local inhabitants are terrified of Israel, so what's the logical thing to do? Attack! But what does the Lord tell Joshua? Circumcise the men. That puts the army out of commission for perhaps three days or more. Then they go celebrate the Passover. Why?
What does Passover remember? The deliverance of these people's ancestors' from slavery in Egypt, plus the beginning of their journey to the Promised Land. And now they were here!
Circumcism. What does that stand for? Read Genesis 17:1-14. Circumcism is a sing of God's covenant that He will protect Abraham and his descendants and give them the Promised Land. Circumcism is a sign that Abraham's descendants have accepted their part of the covenant.
What happened here is not the Israelites calling for God to be on their side, but rather a declaration that they are not on God's side.
This passage must be placed into its' context for it to make any sense. Why were they being circumcised? What came before and after? The people must know this or the message is weakened.
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Today you should start your week off by answering some of your inner questions. Go on a journey back in time and go back to your happy days, remember how you were and why you were happy, and extract from that time the lessons you learned, which could be useful now.
Nostalgia will be positive for you today, Geminis. You're at a very special moment in time, where you leave a stage and enter into another. But at the same time, you have that tendency to go back and bring out the best from the old times.
Today love will fall to the backseat, and even friendship and group experiences could go through the same. It'll be quite the individualistic day, to spend with yourselves, and with very useful introspection exercises.
If you get depressed at work, constantly look at the clock and do nothing but curse and complain the day away, time will go by slower and the torture will seem even crueler. You're better off trying to go to work with a smile on, focus on doing your assigned tasks, and boost your good mood.
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Cross Country teams reap rewards at MIAC Championship
Adrian Johnson '21 and Peter Jarka-Sellers '20 run in the MIAC Championship. Both runners scored for Macalester, with a 50th place finish for Jarka-Sellers and a 63rd place finish for Johnson. Macalester finished seventh out of 11 teams. Photo courtesy of Bill Lepak.
Liam McMahon
On Saturday, Oct. 28th, the Macalester Men's and Women's Cross Country teams competed at the MIAC Championship meet. The women's team raced across the finish line in sixth place overall, while the men took seventh place.
The women's team had several strong finishers as Marlee Yost-Wolff '19 led the way in 22nd place, earning Honorable Mention All-Conference honors, with Lea Davidson '18 and Alia Benedict '19 close behind her in 39th and 44th respectively. Carmen Garson-Shumway '18 finished 54th while Elena Smith '19 ran just one second behind her in 56th place to finish off the scoring for the Scots. The finish pleased Benedict, particularly given the transition the team went through from last year to this year.
"As a team we… edg[ed] out teams like [the College of] St. Benedict's who in past invites this season had beaten us," said Davidson. "It was [a] very cold day, and the St. Olaf course isn't easy. [There are] lots of different types of terrain and small hills throughout, with one distinct large hill between the 4k and 5k. Our team took it in stride and excelled. We had many season personal bests, and almost everyone improved their time from when we raced the course earlier in the season. A handful of people had all time personal bests as well, [which is] an awesome, hard thing to do."
On the men's side of things, Chris Boranian '19 led the way for the Mac Pack in 17th place with Mac Doherty '19 hot on his heels in 20th, just six seconds behind him. Both earned Honorable Mention All-Conference honors for their races, and Doherty was happy with the close finish. "My game plan is always the same: stay on Chris, as long as I can, and I was able to do that," he said.
Jake Lepak '20, Peter Jarka-Sellers '20 and Adrian Johnson '21 rounded out the scoring for the Mac Pack in 40th, 50th and 63rd places. The men finished seventh, up two places from where they were last season.
Reflecting back on the race, Boranian was proud of the effort put forth by everyone on the team.
"We moved up two spots in the MIAC this year, which I think is a lot more significant than it looks on paper, because we showed a lot of potential last year and where we kind of struggled was coming through in the big races," he said. "This year at MIAC, I was really proud individually of my race, it's better than I've ever done before, and I'm really proud of my teammates for also coming through."
That pride was not unique to the men's team. Both groups had to cope with graduating talented runners from last season, and rebuilding from within by asking younger runners to step up and fill the shoes of those who came before them. The growth stood out to runners on both teams.
"I'm really proud of how the team has grown this year," said Benedict. "We've really become closer as teammates and as friends, and [Coach] Betsy and [Coach] Margaret have adapted their program to help the team succeed in the best way we can."
Lepak struck a similar chord, saying that he is most proud of "the improvement." "Last year, we got ninth in MIAC and we lost three of our top seven, and normally when you lose that many of your top scoring guys, you're not supposed to be as good the next year, but a lot of guys stepped up. Coach never gave up on us, he always believed that we could do a lot better than we did last year," Lepak expanded.
With MIAC behind them, the men's and women's teams have started preparing for the NCAA Central Regional Meet in Northfield. Regionals is a lower-stakes race for both teams, and they will look to build on the successes of MIAC while keeping in perspective all they have done this year, enjoying their last few weeks as a team and thinking about what is to come down the line.
"The thing that I'm really optimistic about is that we have five of our top five returning next year, so we can really show some folks that we're the real deal," Boranian said.
Until then, there are still two weeks of racing left, and plenty more fun to be had. Benedict, for one, is hoping to see more than just good running as the season winds down.
"I'm hoping to see more singing and dancing from my teammates," she said. "We really can dance. Can the MIAC rank that?"
The NCAA Central Region Meet will take place at noon on Nov. 11 at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.
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By Meghan Overdeep
Updated Jun 22, 2017 @ 8:30 am
Ivanka Trump didn't appear to be sweating the summer heat as she made her way to the White House on Wednesday.
The First Daughter was spotted leaving her home (just down the street from Michelle and Barack Obama) in Washington D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood, wearing a long sleeve shirt and floral skirt in the nation's capitol. The 35-year-old mother of three tucked the mauve knit into a vibrant wisteria print Dolce & Gabbana number with a thin matching belt. Trump accessorized her look with mirrored sunnies, gold hoop earrings, and a pair of nude pumps. Luckily, she was only outside for a few moments before stepping into an air conditioned SUV.
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On his latest musical journey, R. Scott takes a variety of past musical forms and twists them into a personal, layered & evocative mix - at times cinematic, as well as emotionally raw.
This record is made up of two distinct sides - Mad Forms uses good time music to tell stories of struggle and hope. Twisted Poses is more reflective, soulful and speaks of commitment to ideas held dear. It makes up a sound he calls Americana Soul.
"Showcasing R. Scott's deep, grizzly voice sing-songing over string and horn sections, Mad Forms peaks with "Stumblin' (In the Dark)" a bluesy, boozy jaunt through the New Orleans soundscape that would perhaps be best paired with some freshly squeezed spiked lemonade. It's followed by its sister-song, the slower, ever so slightly more sober "Goin' South" (dig the piano and horn breakdown at 1:40).
"Mad Forms & Twisted Poses," by R. Scott, is a sensationally-made Rock/Americana CD. The beginning of the album has more upbeat, honky-tonk rhythms while, toward the end, the vocalist's New Orleans Blues influences are showcased. With many of the tracks performed using only a solo piano to back the vocalist's broad range, the effect is pure and natural, giving the CD a real sense of intimacy between the lyrics, the music, and the listener. The encouraging, "(Ev'rythin'll) Work Out Fine," employs serious piano talent while the vocals are gritty and piercing with the steady tempo of a hit and snare. The aptly named, "Somber Season," tells the story of expectation, loss, and hope in a pleasant and refreshing change to the toe-tappers that precede it; and, although it's slow, it showcases those rich, attention-getting vocals. All in all, this CD is recommended to all Blues/Bluegrass fans, and even those of singers like Randy Newman. It's full, unique, and thoroughly enjoyable.


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Mum bought her 4 year-old a Christmas DVD from bargain bin, turned out to be a hardcore 80's porno
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An Auckland mother is fuming after the Christmas DVD she bought for her four-year-old turned out to be hardcore porn.
Brittany Williams purchased what looked like a children's Christmas-themed DVD from a bargain bin at Good2go dairy and video hire on the North Shore.
It was a full-on raging porno from the 80s,
She brought the film home for her son, who happily turned it on and began watching.
But when Ms Williams returned to check on him after about 15 minutes, she realised her son wasn't watching elves and reindeer on the screen - he was watching hardcore pornography.
"It was a full-on raging porno from the 80s," she told NZME.
Ms Williams plans to file a police complaint against Good2go, but owner Raj Patel insists his business is not at fault.
He confirmed that pornographic DVDs are sold in the store's bargain bin, but he told NZME there was no way of finding out who recorded the adult footage over a children's film, which was itself at least 10 years old.
"We will take action against her for discriminating us," he said, of Ms Williams' intention to go to the police.
"In 10,000 DVDs, I have never had a case like this, since taking over the business six years ago."
Ms Williams told NZME that her son was traumatised by what he saw and she fears other children may have inadvertently watched similar inappropriate content.


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On May 8, the dad and mom of a 15-year-old girl reportedly beat her after they have been told that she was a lesbian. The girl filed a complaint on the Securuel police station in Riscani, Chisinau, with the assist of Genderdoc-M representatives.
I'm all for these expressions of love and affection, and I love receiving flowers. A nice new resource for statistical indicators about gender issues, known as "Gender Pulse, was launched about a 12 months in the past by way of a partnership between the UN Development Program and the National Bureau of Statistics. According to this site, and the CIA Fact Sheet on Moldova, women's literacy is 99% in Moldova, and extra women than men get a tertiary education. The Gender Pay Gap in Moldova is 10.7%, (better than within the US.) But whereas approximately half of the population is feminine, only 25% of government ministers are women and solely 21% of the members of Parliament are women.
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At the Assistance and Protection Centre, basic practitioners, nurses, psychiatrists and other specialists present emergency medical help to the beneficiaries. If and when additional testing or therapies are essential, the practitioners on the Centre will refer and accompany the beneficiary to specialised services. By fixing such issues, women deputies additionally inspire different women to be actively concerned in the decision-making processes. Thus, the Women Caucus has promoted, regardless of political differences, bills and insurance policies that include solutions to the issues confronted by women and vulnerable teams, and promote gender equality. The pilot project "Green power for entrepreneurship actions" provided consulting and financial, social, and managerial support to individuals trying to arrange their own agricultural business. Through the grant technical consulting was provided to 17 entrepreneurs, together with 12 women and 5 men. 80% of the women have been from weak families, who wanted robust support.
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Co-morbidity may partly mirror severity of the situation, which is understood to be a predictor of worse outcomes . Factors such as pre-departure abuse, severity of trafficking abuse, length of time within the trafficking state of affairs or low ranges of social assist might affect susceptibility to co-morbid diagnoses. It is worth recalling that lower than a third of girls reported feeling in a position to confide in somebody. Clinical assessments of women's preliminary psychiatric situations were made available to the researchers, for women who consented.
The increase in the share of elected councilors is partly due to the utility of the gender quota, accredited by the Parliament in 2016, with the involvement of the Women Caucus from the earlier legislature and with the help of UN Moldova. The gender hole in education is very small in secondary training and below. However, girls' training in Moldova turns into segregated when women search higher training. Although there is a supposed equality on this schooling, men and women don't have a tendency to study the identical degrees. A horizontal segregation seems, the place feminine students tend to study social sciences and male students sometimes choose technical subjects. Girls and girls face obstacles when it comes to empowerment, whether or not it be cultural, socioeconomic, political or spiritual. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova, I tried to assist the girls and women in my community overcome a few of these obstacles by selling feminine participation in bodily training and sports activities.
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Jan Erik Sigdell (geboren 1938 in Göteborg, Schweden) ist ein schwedischer Therapeut und Buchautor. Sein fachlicher Schwerpunkt ist die Reinkarnationstherapie.

Leben und Wirken
Sigdell absolvierte Studien der Elektrotechnik sowie Elektronik, schloss sein Studium als Diplom-Ingenieur ab und wurde im Bereich Medizintechnik promoviert. Hierbei war er spezialisiert auf Dialysetechnik und war Autor eines mathematischen Fachbuchs über Kapillareffekte der künstlichen Niere.

Er beschäftigte sich mit Reinkarnation und experimentierte seit 1974 mit hypnotischen "Rückführungen". 1979 absolvierte er bei Bryan Jameison eine Ausbildung in nicht-hypnotischen Rückführungstechniken, die er in seiner eigenen Praxis anwendete und weiterentwickelte.

Als Christ beschäftigte er sich außerdem mit der Frage der Vereinbarkeit von Christentum und Reinkarnationslehre. Er veröffentlichte mehrere Bücher über diese Themen.

Sigdell ist verheiratet, lebte viele Jahre in der Schweiz und lebt heute in Slowenien.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

 A mathematical theory for the capillary artificial kidney, Hippokrates Verlag, 1974, ISBN 978-3777303598
 Reinkarnation. Christentum und das kirchliche Dogma, Ibera Verlag, Wien 2001, ISBN 978-3-85052-109-3.
 Durch den Tod ins Leben, Ansata Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-7787-7321-5.
 Es begann in Babylon, Holistika Verlag, Meckenheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812671-0-5.
 Wiedergeburt und frühere Leben, Heyne Verlag, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-70086-4.
 mit Andrés Pablo: Die heilende Kraft des Betens, Hans Nietsch Verlag, Emmendingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939570-89-9.
 Unsichtbare Einflüsse, Amra Verlag, Hanau 2012, ISBN 978-3-939373-45-2.
 Die Herrschaft der Anunnaki, Amra Verlag, Hanau 2016, ISBN 978-3-95447-216-1.

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 Jan Erik Sigdell auf den Seiten des Amra Verlags

Einzelnachweise

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Geboren 1938
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Accounting terms are most frequently asked in Bank exam interviews. In the series of providing study material for IBPS exam, this time I come up with basic accounting terms. I made every effort to included every term and tried to write it in easiest form. If you think I missed some important term then please post a comment in the comment form.
Accounts payable - Amount payable by business entity to various parties from whom good or services have been purchased.
Accrual basis - An accounting system which explains that expenses and incomes should be recognized at the time when they are actually realized.
Annual report - Report issued by a company at the end of year containing all important financial statements and preview of management's goals.
Bankruptcy - A state in which an individual or legal entity is unable to pay off his debts so he surrenders his assets to the court.
Bill of lading : A document which represents ownership of goods in transit i.e. goods during shipping from one place to another.
Bills Payable : A bill which shows that a firm has to pay money to the person or firm whose name is mentioned in the bill.
Bills receivable : A bill which shows that money is to be paid to firm from those whose names are mentioned in the bill.
Bookkeeping : This process includes analyzing, classifying and recording from various sets of books in a very systematic way.
Book value : Historical cost less accumulated depreciation. Generally, it is accounting value.
Brought down : Written as b/d. It represents the opening balance of an account.
Brought forward : Written as b/f. This term is generally used to open an account for the current year by posting the closing balance of previous year.
Capital expenditure : Cost incurred to acquire fixed assets which spreads benefits in future.
Capital work-in-progress : Cost incurred in those assets which are not ready yet for use.
Carried down : Written as c/d. This term a synonym for the term carried forward and used to balance an account.
Carried forward : Written as c/f. Term used to transfer the balance from one period to the another.
Carriage inwards : These are the expenses incurred for transporting the goods purchased by the firm.
Carriage outwards : Expenses incurred for transporting goods sold by the firm.
Cash : It broadly covers currency and generally accepted equivalents of cash, like cheques, drafts and demand deposits in bank.
Cash at bank : Deposit with bank.
Cash Book : A book of all transactions or entries for cash payments and receipts.
Cash on hand : Cash available and undeposited.
Closing stock/ Closing inventory : Goods remaining at the end of an accounting period.
Conservatism principle : Accounting concept that states that all expected losses should be recorded but not expected gains.
Depreciation : Decrease in value of assets or the cost of an asset is allocated to that period during which asset is used.
Discount : A deduction from cost of something , offered by seller.
Dividend: A share of profit which is to be distributed to the shareholders.
Dividend Yield: Ratio of current dividend to the current market price of a share.
Double-entry: Transaction entered in both sides debit as well as credit i.e. every transaction has to entered twice.
Doubtful debts : A collection of that debt which is doubtful.
Drawings : Withdrawing cash or goods from business for personal use.
states that every transaction has a dual effect and should be recorded at two places.
Du-Pont System : The System merges the income statement and balance sheet into two measures of profitability: Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE).
EBIT : Earnings before interest and tax.
Entity Principle : The business firm is treated as a separate entity for the purpose of accounting.
Equity : A stock or any other security representing an ownership interest.
Exchange Rate : The rate at which one currency can be converted into another.
Expenses : the cost i.e. material or services used in an operation during a specified period.
Face Value : Commonly referred to the amount paid to a bondholder at the maturity date, given that the issuer doesn't default.
Financial Asset : An intangible asset that derives value. Stocks, bonds, bank deposits etc are all examples of financial asset.
Financial Ratio : Ratio based on firm's financial statement which reflects firm's financial condition and performance.
Financial Statement : A formal record of the financial activities of a business, person or other entity.
Financial data is presented in a structured manner.
Fixed Assets : It includes premises, plant and machinery, furniture, land and buildings etc.
Fixed Charge : A required payment under a contract.
Freehold Premises : Premises which are not subject to any charge.
Funds Flow Statement : A statement which shows inflow and outflow of funds.
Gross Profit Margin : Ratio of Gross profit to net sales i.e. gross profit as a percentage of net sales.
Holding Company : A parent company which holds enough stock in another company to hold its board of directors.
Human Resource Accounting (HRA) : Measuring the cost and value of employees and managers in the organisation. It includes the measurement of the cost incurred to recruit, hire, train and develop employees and managers.
HRA Report : After measuring the cost and value of its people, the organisation prepares a report which is known as HRA Report.
Imprest : Maintained cash to meet the sundry expenses.
Income Due but not received : Receivable income but not yet received.
Income Received but not due : Income received during current accounting period which is supposed to be received at some future date.
Income statement : Profit and loss statement that measures the firm's operations.
Insolvency : Inability of debtors to meet their debt obligations i.e. lack of liquidity.
Intangible assets : Assets like patents, copyrights, goodwill etc which are valuable but are not physical in nature.
Interest earned ratio : Ratio which measures firm's ability to meet its interest payments out of its annual earnings i.e. EBIT / Interest expense.
Interest rate risk : Uncertainty in expected returns of securities due to changes in interest rates.
Inventory : Stock of goods or articles.
Journal : A daily record of transactions in which each transaction is based on double entry bookkeeping i.e. for all transactions both debits and credits are to be entered.
Ledger : A record of all individual accounts of a business or firm.
Liability : A financial obligation which arises due to some past events or transactions in business.
Marketable securities : Securities which can easily be converted into cash.
Market value : Mutually accepted price of an asset between buyers and sellers. It is price at which an asset would trade in market.
Matching Principle : States that expenses should be recorded during that period when it is incurred, regardless the period of transfer of cash.
Miscellaneous expenditure : Lower monetary value costs are misc expenditure like various meals, ticket prices etc.
Mortgage : A temporary pledge of property to the creditor as a security for an obligation or the debt repayment.
Net block : Net block is what asset are worth to the company. Generally, it is gross block less accumulated depreciation.
Net current assets : Current assets less current liabilities.
Net income : Total earnings of company. It represents firm's total profit or loss, calculated by taking all revenues and deducting all the costs of the business.
Net profit margin : Net profit or income as a percent of sales i.e. net Income/ Sales.
Operating profit margin : Operating income / Revenue.
Outstanding expenses : Unpaid expenses.
Overdraft : When money is withdrawn from bank account and account balance is below zero.
Paid up capital : The amount of company's capital which has been funded by shareholders.
Patent : The sole right to make and sell the product for set period of time.
Petty cash book : Record of entries for small amount payments.
Prepaid expenses : Expenses which have been paid but benefits of which is yet to be received.
Profit and loss account : A statement which shows all revenues and expenses of firm for a given time period. Subtracting expenses from revenues gives net income of the firm for that time period, that's why known as profit and loss account.
Proposed dividend : Company's board of directors declare an amount of dividend every year and this amount is noted as a liability in balance sheet. The rate of proposed dividend can be changed by shareholders in annual general meeting.
Provision for doubtful debts : Keeping aside an amount out of the firm's profit to meet the losses due to doubtful debts.
Provision for tax : Keeping aside an amount to meet future tax liability.
Realization principle : It states that recognize the revenue only when it is earned.
Redeemable Preference Shares : Preference shares which are redeemed by issuing company at an agreed price on a specified date.
Reserves and surplus : Accumulated profits of the firm.
Retained earnings : A portion of net income of company which is not distributed in shareholders and reinvested in core business.
Return on equity : Equity earnings / Net worth.
Sales book : A complete record of sales which are made on credit.
Sales Returns Book : A record of entries of those goods which are returned by customers and earlier sold on credit.
Secured loans : Loan backed by an asset belongs to the borrower, just to reduce the risk for the lender.
Sinking fund : Fund created by keeping aside some money annually for gradual repayment of debt.
Sundry expenses : Miscellaneous expenses.
Total asset turnover ratio : Net sales/ Total assets.
Unsecured loans : Loans which are not backed by any security.
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The Russian Connection: Hillary Weighs In On Mueller Report
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Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report. It documents a serious crime against the American people.
The debate about how to respond to Russia's "sweeping and systematic" attack — and how to hold President Trump accountable for obstructing the investigation and possibly breaking the law — has been reduced to a false choice: immediate impeachment or nothing. History suggests there's a better way to think about the choices ahead.
Obviously, this is personal for me, and some may say I'm not the right messenger. But my perspective is not just that of a former candidate and target of the Russian plot. I am also a former senator and secretary of state who served during much of Vladimir Putin's ascent, sat across the table from him and knows firsthand that he seeks to weaken our country.
I am also someone who, by a strange twist of fate, was a young staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate impeachment inquiry in 1974, as well as first lady during the impeachment process that began in 1998. And I was a senator for New York after 9/11, when Congress had to respond to an attack on our country. Each of these experiences offers important lessons for how we should proceed today.
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Evidence has a well-known liberal bias.
Evidence has a well-known liberal bias. And that, presumably, is why conservatives prefer "experts" who not only consistently get things wrong, but refuse to admit or learn from their mistakes.
There has been a lot of commentary about Stephen Moore, the man Donald Trump wants to put on the Fed's Board of Governors. It turns out that he has a lot of personal baggage: He was held in contempt of court for failing to pay alimony and child support, and his past writings show an extraordinary degree of misogyny. He misstates facts so much that one newspaper editor vowed never to publish him again, and he has ben caught outright lying about his past support for a gold standard. Oh, and he has described the cities of the U.S. heartland as "armpits of America."
But it's also important to put Moore in context. Until he decided that the Fed should roll those printing presses to help Trump, he was part of a fairly broad group that advocated tight money in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. This group bitterly criticized both the Fed's low interest rates and its efforts to boost the economy by buying bonds, so-called "quantitative easing." Its members warned that these policies would lead to runaway inflation, and seized on a rise in commodity prices in 2011-12 as the harbinger of an inflationary surge.
Michelle Cottle: Meet the Press? Don't Bother
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, nominally the White House press secretary, has abandoned the custom of briefing the news media.
Tuesday saw yet another record broken by the Trump White House: the longest run without an official news media briefing.
At 43 days and counting, this information drought supplants the previous record of 42 days without a briefing, set in March — which broke the 41-day record set in January.
At some point, one cannot help but wonder: What is the job of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who holds the title of White House press secretary?
Conducting daily briefings was once a core function of the press secretary. The White House put its spin on the news of the day; reporters pushed for more information or clarification. Somewhere in all the give-and-take, the public interest was served.
Under President Trump, such sessions have all but vanished. Since the first of the year, Ms. Sanders has held two formal briefings. She has also developed a frustrating reputation for not responding to media inquiries in general.
This presumably pleases her boss. Mr. Trump prefers to broadcast to the public from the safety of Twitter, where truth and accountability are not held at a premium. In January, he even directed Ms. Sanders (in a tweet) "not to bother" with briefings anymore. Is a White House press secretary unwilling to interact with the press earning her taxpayer-funded salary?
In Ms. Sanders's case, the growing lack of access is arguably less troubling than the lack of credibility — a problem highlighted in last Thursday's release of the Mueller report.
Thomas B. Edall: Bernie Sanders Scares a Lot of People, and Quite a Few of Them Are Democrats
What happens if he's the nominee in 2020?
In 34 national surveys conducted from October 2018 to early April, Joe Biden, who is expected to announce his presidential bid on Thursday, led of all competitors.
Then, in an Emerson College poll conducted two weeks ago, Bernie Sanders, a candidate with substantial liabilities as well as marked strengths, pulled ahead of Biden for the first time, 29-24 percent.
Sanders is also doing well in Iowa and New Hampshire, sites of the first caucus and primary.
One consequence of these developments is summed up in the headline of my colleague Jonathan Martin's April 15 story, "'Stop Sanders' Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum."
In this light, I asked a group of Democratic and liberal-leaning consultants, pollsters, economists and political scientists what the likelihood of a Sanders' nomination was, what his prospects would be in the general election, and how Democratic House and Senate candidates might fare with Sanders at the top of the ticket. When necessary, I offered them the opportunity to speak on background — with no direct attribution — to encourage forthcoming responses.
The answers I got from Democrats who make their living in politics revealed considerable wariness toward Sanders — the response many Sanders supporters would expect. [..]
Democratic primaries, as I mentioned earlier, are hardly a proving ground for how well a democratic socialist — and a self-declared social and cultural outsider — will sell in November, something Trump and the Republican Party are already gearing up to turn into a major 2020 issue.
The question extends beyond Sanders. Democratic constituencies competing to pick a candidate to square off against Trump next year face a difficult-to-resolve problem. Will they find themselves flying blind, entangled in a cause more than a campaign as they leave too much of the middle-of-the-road electorate behind?
E. J. Dionne Jr.: Will Trump and the Supreme Court tear our democracy apart?
2020 Census and thus representation in Congress to benefit the party that placed them on the court.
Trump's brazen attacks on U.S. institutions and the court's partisanship are not separate stories. They are the product of a radicalization of American conservatism. Republicans and conservative ideologues — including the ones wearing the robes of justice — are destabilizing our institutions in pursuit of power.
The apparent willingness of the court's five conservatives to go along with the Trump administration on the census is of a piece with earlier rulings gutting the Voting Rights Act and increasing the power of big money in politics. All tilt the workings of our democratic republic in favor of conservative candidates, conservative causes and the appointment of conservative judges just like them.
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Jamal Perfumers London is an artisan perfume house born out of centuries-old attar traditions. The company was founded in 1980, and recently sought a refined identity to reflect their new direction; contemporary, luxury fragrances proudly made in Britain, but rooted in Arabian heritage. Ink developed the identity for Jamal working closely with the latest generation of their family, to ensure a visual language which effectively conveyed the opulence and refinement of this bold cosmetic brand. The logotype was entirely designed from scratch, using geometry and a strict grid structure to ensure legibility and clarity in every application.
From this logotype, we further expanded the Jamal identity into a series of conceptual packaging styles and renders, to give the company a direction to aim for as they continue to develop and grow this exciting business venture. The mock-ups were centered around the elegance, sophistication and timelessness of the Jamal brand, built upon hand-blown Bristol Blue glass, a personal favourite of the company director.