Journal

Going Down Swinging, No. 26

Item: Going Down Swinging
Author: Andrew Burns

by Andrew Burns •

July–August 2008, no. 303

Going Down Swinging: No. 26 edited by Steve Grimwade and Lisa Greenaway

$24.95 pb, 107 pp

Journal

Going Down Swinging, No. 26

by Andrew Burns •

July–August 2008, no. 303

A journal with an ego, Going Down Swinging (GDS) is not afraid of blowing its own trumpet. There are two editorials: Steve Grimwade’s, written in the voice of his infant son, claims that GDS is the ‘finest literary journal on the planet’ – but this is cheeky enthusiasm, not arrogance. Lisa Greenaway’s editorial is best summed up thus: ‘we want the people who never pick up a literary magazine to pick up GDS’.

Andrew Burns

Andrew Burns is a Melbourne-based journalist. After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 2005, he worked as a columnist and reporter for the Herald Sun before moving to the ABC in 2013.