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Literary Studies

Multiple heartbeats

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February 2007, no. 288

Westerly: Volume 51 edited by Delys Bird and Dennis Haskell

$25.95 pb, 234 pp

HEAT: Number 12 edited by Ivor Indyk

Giramondo, $24.95 pb, 212 pp

Literary Studies

Multiple heartbeats

by •
February 2007, no. 288

Who reads literary magazines, and why do they? Writers looking for what is being published, academics keeping up with who is being published, the elusive ‘general reader’ looking for a good read? The current volumes of HEAT and Westerly offer multiple reasons and rewards for picking them up, reasons which extend well beyond these superficial factors. Reasons which may send you to the postbox with a subscription form.

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Lyn McCredden heads the Writing and Literature group at Deakin. She researches in Australian literature, her 2017 critical monograph being The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred (Sydney University Press).

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