EDITORIAL
Kalinda Ashton | Against Reality

OVERLAND LECTURE
John Harms | All Is Not What It Seems

FEATURES
Katherine Wilson | Guns, Guards and Gates
Francesca Rendle-Short | Illicit Desire
Jess Whyte | Contesting Reality
Fiona McGregor | 101 Tin Drums
Rjurik Davidson | Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and China Miéville
Terry Eyssens | On|Off
Michael Head | Militarisation by Stealth
David Ritter | Cartography Blanche

FICTION
Ben Peek | Excerpts from Books Fifty Years from Now
Jill Sparrow and Paul Voermans | A Working Childhood
Susan Wardle | Children of the Dirt

REGULARS
Christos Tsiolkas | The Lives of an Art House Audience

POETRY
Jonathan Hadwen | Got ’em
Margaret Bradstock | Moons of Jupiter
Peter Lach-Newinsky | Black Blood
Joyce Parkes | Budget Brrrs
Will Fraser | 2007
Chris Mansell | the general becomes
Philip Neilsen | The Conservative Forest
Tim Metcalf | Rodent Fugue
Greg McLaren | A clearing with a town
David Kerr | Return to the Convincing Ground
Andrea Semeniuk | The Garden
Lidija Šimkutė | The Desolate Courtyard
Ouyang Yu | Self Publishing