Fifteen recently published titles by Lontar are now available for purchase online—through Amazon.com, various “sister-Amazons” (in Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan) and about 100 other online booksellers as well!
Those books are:
• The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama, Vols. 1-3; Menagerie 7: People Like Us!; I Am Woman!, Gadis Arivia, ed.; and the first ten titles in Lontar’s new Modern Library of Indonesia series, including:
• Never the Twain (Salah Asuhan)
Some of the papers, provocations and presentations delivered at the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership’s 2010 symposium ‘Writing Across Cultures’ are now available online in a special issue of TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. (http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue10/content.htm)
The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership (aka ‘APWriters’) was formed with the support of the founding editor of TEXT, Nigel Krauth, who heads the Writing Program at Griffith
Asia Literary Review, until now available in print only, is making its
presence felt on-line with the launch of a new website.
Hailed as ‘Destined to become hugely influential’ by Time Out, and
‘Absolutely brilliant’ by Granta senior editor Rosalind Porter, under
publisher Ilyas Khan ALR has in the past year moved from local to global
prominence, with the print version of the magazine now on sale across Asia,
in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US.
‘Asia Literary Review
Adam Aitken
Eighth Habitation
Giramondo Publishing
Poetry, Paperback, 144pp
ISBN 978-1-920882-46-4
$24.00
Publication April 2009
Eighth Habitation is Adam Aitken’s fourth collection of poetry, and takes its name from the
Buddhist-Hindu idea of purgatory, a mystical realm where the meaning of one’s life is judged.
The collection questions the nature of Australian identity, and the possibilities of being and
belonging, both at home and abroad. The poems inhabit a range of
Tom Cho
Look Who’s Morphing
Giramondo Publishing
Fiction, paperback, 192pp, $24.95
ISBN 978-1-920882-54-9
Publication May 2009
One clear and sunny afternoon, I rampaged through Tokyo, just as Godzilla had always done.
However, I had not morphed into Godzilla or any other kind of giant reptilian creature. I was simply
myself, except that I was 55 metres tall with a commensurate degree of physical strength and I had
atomic ray breath and I was wearing a leather vest with blue