34-37 Degrees South - 2023

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Road Trips Brid Morahan Remember that one when I sang along with the chorus of ‘Flame Trees’ on the AM band, roared it out the open window on the road to Bourke? Just to keep my spirits up—no aircon in the Datsun and over fifty in the car. How about the manic humming, the fog was thick and hazy on the road from Bright with the heater on full-bore? Eye-skin peeled back peering into white to avoid hitting the bikes and going off the edge. No music on the road from Walgett on dusk with roos all over, head gasket blown, fuel light on, no water and no phone, no coverage anyway, seventy-five clicks and busting for a wee til I made it to the Ridge. That time I rolled the car on a backroad of Uralla and stepped out through where the windscreen used to be— the bush looked the same all round and when you found me, I was walking the wrong way—back to where I’d come from. I remember petrol rations—odds and evens on the rego plates, the locust plague gumming up the grille and the time Snow the cat jumped out the window on the road to Warrnambool—she was waiting on the doorstep when I got home two weeks later. 32
The one with the girls: we stopped to pick some cotton outside Narrabri, picnicked at Sawn Rocks. The songs were swapped for games, questions big and small, and too many where the answer was ‘George Bush,’ but so much laughter. Now I drive the long road south through the Eurobodalla forest. Wattle stains the air and wind whips the bark off stringys, I’ve picked up the brandy snaps, the songs are lusty on my lips. Soon I’ll be dancing to the music, soon I’ll be back home, with you. 33
Page 3 and 4: 34-37 DEGREES SOUTH COUNTRY 2023 An
Page 5: Acknowledgement of Country This pub
Page 8 and 9: Introduction Between My Country—a
Page 10 and 11: Contents Acknowledgement of Country
Page 13 and 14: 1. YOU ARE HERE 1
Page 15 and 16: and opposite, with rippling wake he
Page 17 and 18: at wagga beach Tim Heffernan on the
Page 19 and 20: Winter solstice Kai Jensen The cale
Page 21 and 22: My Country Not My Country Stephen M
Page 23 and 24: Notes. The Goanna Man and the Black
Page 25 and 26: Funeral birds Alisha Brown There ar
Page 27 and 28: Note. Meaghan Holt is a poet, perfo
Page 29 and 30: southerly change hints chill winds
Page 33 and 34: 2. VOYAGES
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Page 37 and 38: neat white-painted house, those oth
Page 39 and 40: an pillows drawers of folded kimono
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Page 43: After the funeral Linda Albertson (
Page 47 and 48: Many Syrians left their homes becau
Page 51: 3. INLAND EMPIRES
Page 54 and 55: Memento mori with swallowtail butte
Page 56 and 57: Strange country Kathleen Bleakley D
Page 58 and 59: ‘Life’s a beach, and then you d
Page 60 and 61: My country Bríd Morahan Warm breez
Page 62: On the poet’s country Moira Kirkw
Page 66 and 67: Originally from Aotearoa New Zealan
Page 68 and 69: Linda Mcquarrie-Bowerman lives and
Page 70: The Editors Linda Godfrey lives and

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