ART by SAMANTHA CASOLARI

updated Tue, 30.01.2007 0:49 Carlton- Melbourne Australia

SITE NEWS 27.01.2007 RETORT is back! Still xperiencing a few logistical problems, which is no surprise considering the rickety state the site was in from 5 years of throwing up content without much regard to architecture. Unfortunately due to budget limitations I am unable to archive content earlier than 2005. Thankfully the National Library of Australia, in their infinite wisdom, have archived Retort Magazine in its entirety. If you are unable to locate any content linked from pages that are hosted here just search the NLA Pandora archive. Below is some new material and some earlier publications from where RETORT left off circa August 2006.

DOG DAYS by Robert Levin I wanted to be invisible. Out of nowhere, with, I swear, nothing in my history to predict it, I'd done something people regard as sick and disgusting and I wanted to disappear read

JAGGED EDGES by Marc Lowe She sat on the bed and watched. She watched them through a narrow chink in the wall. The boy had his arm around the girl. He was whispering something into her ear read


POETRY by Kent MacCarter We clang inside the attractive hours of night – that space we bring and blow smokes in each other’s face. Our hair lets drop a towel for a shower, quick With beer read

REVIEW - THE WORLD AT WAR AND THE IDIOT, by DOSTOEVSKY by Dan Schneider It was not long after my family moved into the very first home we had ever owned, in our line's history read

POETRY by Angus GorbergSORRY, BUKOWSKI by PL GeorgePOETRY by Steve KilbeyREVIEW of Marcel Proust by Dan SchneiderLITERATURE by Tantra BenskoPOETRY by Justin LoweLITERATURE by Robert SmithZANESVILLE REVIEW /Interview with author Kris Saknussemm by Brentley FrazerPOETRY by Carol NovackPOETRY by Julie DoxseePOETRY by Ian McBrydePOETRY by Brian P. Katz

POETRY R.M.EngelhardtPOETRYFrancis RavenPOETRY Julie BeveridgePOETRY Graham NunnREVIEW Les Miserables Dan SchneiderPOETRY Kevin GillamPOETRY Megan Volpert THE NEXT TOLKIEN Adrian GibbOUR NEW GEOGRAPHY Michael DeppLITERATURE Kenji SiratoriLITERATURE Rodney NelsonRecent Articles Archive

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