In sympathy: a fugue / Maggie MacKellar

The bus stop / Ashley Hay

Whale fall / Rebecca Giggs

The noise made by people / Anwen Crawford

She thinks she is the boss / Melinda Harvey

The most holy object in the house / Mireille Juchau

The world of bald white days / Fiona Wright

Things seen / Vicki Hastrich

This old self / Helen Garner

Vagina / Tegan Bennett Daylight

Detroit, I do mind / Jennifer Mills

The experience machine / Fiona McGregor

Like a thief in the night / Michelle de Krester

Grave Barrier Reef / Jo Chandler

How to love football / Anna Spargo-Ryan

Review of “Chorale at the Crossing” by Peter Porter / Peter Goldsworthy

Review of John Kinsella’s “Drowning in wheat” / Gregory Day

Introduction to Ford Madox Ford’s “The Good Soldier” / J.M. Coetzee

David Bowie: loving the alien / James Bradley

Rom Watangu / Galarrwuy Yunupingu

Notes on the Syrian exodus / Richard Flanagan

35,000 pieces of converted culture / Adam Rivett

The great red whale / Michael Winkler

Life on Manus: the island of the damned / Behrouz Boochani

On mass shootings / Martin McKenzie-Murray

What sort of country are we? / Julian Burnside

Both hands full / Kim Scott

Includes bibliographical references.