Tarcutta Wake by Josephine Rowe Page A

year before. How little it takes to be changed, and how difficult to know of it. How little we can see, even from here.

Acknowledgments
    My sincere thanks to John Hunter, for his ongoing encouragement, and for lighting a spark under this collection. Thank you to Madonna Duffy and Rebecca Roberts, and to UQP, for continuing to champion short stories.
    Thank you, Christopher Merrill, the University of Iowa, and all the staff and writers involved in the 2011 International Writing Program: it was a surreal and enriching experience. Thank you, Gabrielle Connellan and the us Consulate General for all your help on this side of the equator.
    Thank you, Chris Flynn, John Skibinski, and Boyacks for years of friendship, love and support (editorial, familial and illustrative).
    Thank you, Patrick Pittman, for everything.
    I am deeply grateful to the following publications for their support, and to those editors who worked closely with me to refine earlier versions. I would especially like to thank Melissa Cranenburgh from The Big Issue and David Winter from Griffith Review for their time and expertise.
    â€˜Suitable for a lampshade’ in Australian Book Review and Award Winning Australian Writing (Melbourne Books, 2011).
    â€˜Brisbane’ in Small Room and The Best Australian Stories 2010 (Black Inc., 2010), edited by Cate Kennedy.
    â€˜In the mornings we would sometimes hear him singing’ and ‘View’ in The Big Issue.
    â€˜Repairs’ in Escape: An anthology of short stories (Spineless Wonders, 2011), edited by Bronwyn Mehan.
    â€˜The tank’ in Griffith Review.
    â€˜Dixieland’, ‘The taxidermist’s wife’ and ‘Vending machine at the end of the world’ in The Iowa Review.
    â€˜Hotels’ in Meanjin.
    â€˜Scar from a trick with a knife’ in Wet Ink.
    In ‘The tank’, the line ‘Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror’ is taken from Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘God speaks’.
    In ‘Raising the wreck’, the line ‘the thing itself, and not the myth’ is taken from the Adrienne Rich poem ‘Diving into the wreck’.

First published 2012 by University of Queensland Press
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    Rowe, Josephine
Tarcutta Wake
    i. Title.
    ISBN 978 0 7022 4930 3 (pbk)
ISBN 978 0 7022 4838 2 (pdf)
ISBN 978 0 7022 4839 9 (epub)
ISBN 978 0 7022 4840 5 (kindle)