Journal Issue
The New Australian Poetry gives this issue its argumentative center, with Roy MacGregor-Hastie setting the terms. The fiction—Rocks and Stars by Paul Bartlett—moves among private crisis, social pressure, and public consequence, with each story’s title and setting supplying a distinct point of entry. The poetry runs from Four Poems and Letter to Clarence Major, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into New World Gates, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 1 work of fiction, 12 poetry entries, 8 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
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- Rocks and Stars — Paul Bartlett [Fiction, p. 8]
- Four Poems — Stanley Kiesel [Poem, p. 3]
- Song — George P. Elliott [Poem, p. 5]
- I Was a Poet for the FBI — Lawrence Lipton [Poem, p. 6]
- Three Poems — Elizabeth Bartlett [Poem, p. 14]
- Epigraph for Simonides — Peter Yates [Poem, p. 19]
- Female, Wildwood Type — Judson Jerome [Poem, p. 19]
- The Dog Among the Rills — Winfield Townley Scott [Poem, p. 20]
- Two Poems — John Ciardi [Poem, p. 28]
- Procne — Richard Ashman [Poem, p. 30]
- Poem — Daniel J. Langton [Poem, p. 30]
- Campsite — Seymour Gresser [Poem, p. 31]
- Letter to Clarence Major — Carl Larsen [Poem, p. 32]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- The New Australian Poetry — Roy MacGregor-Hastie [Essay, p. 22]
- Handy Reference Guide for the Little Theatre Owner — Barding Dahl [Essay, p. 33]
- Reading Poetry Aloud — Peter Yates [Essay, p. 36]
- Blunderbuss: What’s Going On Up and Down the Coast [Review, p. 43]
- A Statement — Kenneth Patchen [Essay, p. 46]
- A Squawk About ‘Squeal’ — Gene Frumkin [Editorial, p. 47]
- Poetry, Jazz, etc — Thomas McGrath [Review, p. 39]
- New World Gates — Lachlan MacDonald [Review, p. 42]
- Cover — David Lemon [Artwork]
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Copyright 1957 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1957 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1957; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Coastlines*, vol. III, no. 1, Winter 1957–58. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.