2003: Taste

Of course it wasn’t Old Alf’s fault; it’d all started with the license, the slippery, shining reminder of another world. He wanted clean teeth and job possibilities and the girl on the license, or the chance of someone like her… – Ann Penhallurick

The foreword for this collection was written by author and academic Dr Cathy Cole, who writes "An anthology celebrates and unifies, offers insights into a world that may be different from our own, presents a ‘taste’ of life – a banquet which enriches and exhilarates."

Contributors

Contributors to Taste include Toby Fitch, Stuart Luijerink, Chantal Rumble, Karen Weiss, Stuart Cooke, Jo Ross, Kathryn Morgan, Colin Sevitt, Nicky Shortridge, Pete Gately, Robyn Tooth, Natalie Kershaw, Eleanor Jane Glass, Christen Cornell, Ann Penhallurick, Michelle Haines Thomas, Phillipa Moore, Cassie Gabbett, Enid Ratnam-Keese, Margaret Herczeg, Jeanette Taylor, John Somerville, Penelope Sinclair, Richard Gilzean, Elena Williams, Andrew Frost, Orlando Savage, Tania Stone, Sean Parker, Angela Cranston, Nina Cullen and Derek Rawson.

Editorial Committee

This edition was published by Halstead Press, an independent publisher then operating in Rushcutters Bay. The editorial committee consisted of Annabel Blay, Nicola Gray, Emily Langston-Stapp, Ann Penhallurick, Jo Ross and Tania Stone.

There’s something

in the way they connect,

his wading, his ear to the surface,

and the rush of wind

across them. Running over the ear,

caution in the sound, his opponent

seeking the certainty of his shape;

to throw is skyward, to un-shape it

with hurting, jumbling the pieces,

smacking them with incoherence…

– Orlando J Savage