It’s All Connected: Feminist Fiction and Poetry
Pauline Hopkins (editor)
Feminists have long known that it’s all connected. The stories, the families, the country, the River . In this anthology, poets and short story writers create worlds with words. This book includes stories that draw on mythic traditions rewritten for our time. There are thieves, grandmothers, teenagers breaking out, dark caves to explore and real estate to sell; there are mysteries from the grave, experiments that go wrong, road trips, a circus, an opera, families that break and families that hold together; there are birds and animals and babies, and there is the pandemic. There is stillness and movement; closeness and distance.
This eclectic range of authors brings their unique perspectives to storytelling as they each grapple to understand the past and meet the challenges ahead, daring to share their joy and pain, their fear and anger, their hopes and disappointments. These are women who dare to remember, to claim their own stories and to wonder what may have been.
Memory’s a burden, forgetting even more so.
—‘Lost Bird’ by Merlinda BobisAll the stories I can think of turn out to be full of traps for the unsuspecting.
—‘Keep Telling’ by Marion Molteno
DECEMBER 2022 | ISBN 9781925950564 | Paperback | 152 mm x 228 mm | 248 pages
Reviews
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Endorsements
A bold and powerful anthology offering poetry and prose from a diversity of new and established women writers, It’s All Connected ripples and blazes across a universe of topics, a galaxy of tones. Deftly constructed, moving from ancient myth to present day narratives, from pre-history to future worlds, this book arrives as an elegant feminist fanfare.
—Carmel BirdA feisty, vigorous and eclectic volume; feminism is alive and well as a creative force ...
—Gail JonesA wonderfully rich and diverse expression of full throttle womanhood.
—Amanda Lohrey
Table of Contents
Introduction
Pauline Hopkins
1. Agamemnon’s Return from Troy | Jena Woodhouse
2. Ulyssea | Susan Hawthorne
3. now he dreams the Sirens silent | Marion May Campbell
4. The End of the Mountains | Aviva Xue
5. Suburu | Jordie Albiston
6. The Lonely Road | Robyn Bishop
7. It’s All Connected | Diane Bell
8. Christmas Hills Rhapsody | Sandy Jeffs
9. Kalifornia, her color | Usha Akella
10. The Child Thief | Bulbul Sharma
11. The Thief Danced On | Gena Corea
12. Apostrophe to Anger | Pramila Venkateswaran
13. The Thickness of Choice | Fiona Place
14. The Treehouse | Jacque Duffy
15. Keep Telling | Marion Molteno
16. My Cup Runneth Over | Anne Ostby
17. Skoteino Cave | Coleen Clare
18. Coming of Age, Ready or Not | Laurie Ross Trott
19. Elaine | Patricia Sykes
20. Real Estate | Cheryl Adam
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21. I Don’t Post on Facebook | Colleen Higgs
22. After Dinner | Angela Costi
23. Three Photographs | Carmel Macdonald Grahame
24. Where the Body is Buried | Lucy Sussex
25. Souvenirs | Carol Lefevre
26. Being Dolphins | Mary Goslett
27. About Geese | Suniti Namjoshi
28. The Cry | Renate Klein
29. Birds | Jordie Albiston
30. Lost Bird | Merlinda Bobis
31. The Poet | Lizz Murphy
32. Educating Nanette | Susan Midalia
33. enduring form of women’s piracy | Gina Mercer
34. Aloha Ukelele | Cath Koa Dunsford
35. Paige | Pauline Hopkins
36. Morundah (or Lunatic Fringe) | Kerryn Higgs
37. Alive | Sue Ingleton
38. we come to the light | berni janssen
39. Get Back In | Angela Buckingham
40. Wimmera | Jordie Albiston