Island Magazine, #146

In recent years, Island has not published many themed issues, but we couldn’t resist getting swept up in Tempest, a major exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), sprung from the imagination of internationally recognised curator Juliana Engberg, supported by Detached, and part of the Dark Mofo 2016 festival. It’s also apt to celebrate Shakespeare’s much-loved play 400 years since the death of the Bard.Island 146 is packed with beauty, in the quality of the writing, the artworks from the TMAG exhibition, other excellent Tasmanian contemporary artworks and photographs, and the superb publication design by Tasmanian design studio Futago. Through essays, stories, poems and art, we explore wild weather and climate change; our impacts on the natural world; discovery and representation of landscapes; the pressing global issues of migration and exile; and the many ‘tempests’ within our own discords and internal states.EDITORIAL Tempest by Geordie WilliamsonESSAYSThe Bus Stop by Ashley HayEndlings: On Love and Extinction by Harriet RileyAtlas du Voyage by Delia NichollsRefuge From the Storm by Perrin Scarborough (Chatter Matters)In Sympathy: A Fugue by Maggie MacKellarTo Run Away From Home by Fiona WrightCOMMENTARIESTempest Prayers by James BoyceThe Foundering Polity by Damon Young INTERVIEWActs of Displacement by Eliza Burke with Valerie Sparks ARTA river settles its own cairns underwater by Justy Phillips and Margaret WoodwardAmphibious Architecture by Natalie JeremijenkoFragments of Place by Andrew Harper FICTION Eaglehawk IDC by Rohan WilsonThe Mind's Eyes by Danielle WoodOur Country by Lenny BartulinThe Teeth and the Curl by Robbie Arnott POETRYFrom 'You want ghosts' by Brook EmeryHossegor by Jaya SavigeVoluntary Inundations by Martin KovanTidal by Roland LeachMusic for Hospitals / Not to Disturb by David McCooeyNot to be / Contemplating the Gap by Melinda SmithDaddy / Argument by Maria TakolanderA Dream, London, November 24 by Claire Potter Negation by Jo Langdon