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

We are pleased to announce that the seventh issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal has now been launched. It features work by Ivy Alvarez, Andrew Barker, Dave Bonta, Catherine Candano, Surajit Chakravarty, Cecilia Chan, Kevin Chan, Louie Crew, E. K. Entrada, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Enrica Ho, Alan Jefferies, Iris A. Law, Fatima Lim-Wilson, Janet McClaskey, Caitlin Militello, Reid Mitchell, Ceci Mourkogiannis, Alice Tsay, Amy Uyematsu and Steve Wing.

We would like to thank our

In the Asialink Essays series, leading commentators explore key issues in Australia’s engagement with Asia.

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NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: Asia and Australia at the centre
Ron Huisken, Senior Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University.

The Australia-Japan International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament is one manifestation of a genuine but still modest movement to have another