Current Volume: Volume 6 (2009) Tide Edition VI

Editors' Note
For some time now, esteemed Readers, there has been a considerable lack of Victorian verbosity and pomposity in the realm of student publications. Such collections are often too earnest and self-aware, and as a result the once respectable name of 'Youth' in the modern literary canon has become inglorious. The only way in which to remedy this situation is with a healthy dose of Ganderax. Consider this journal to be the first stride towards a new ideal. Both the prose and poesy found betwixt these stiffened covers shall be a golden orb of inspiration for a new generation of literary sensibility. Our band of jocund wordsmiths can feel no greater pride in a success such as this. Elementary! As the Tide ebbs and flows, let this be seen as the highest watermark: the one that claims the shoreline. In the name of Literature,
Dr Dog Watson, Esq.

Contents
Adam Formosa - Fixed - 1
Joshua Handley - The things we find - 3
Sally Evans - Cosmogeny - 7
Owen Everitt - Does this train go to Sutherland? - 8
Belinda Nielsen - Annie - 11
Kye Kocher - Calgary (extract) - 12
Tomas Ernst - In the house of love and solitude - 13
Jade Fisher - May first - 15
Patrick Harrison - Moving mountains - 19
K A. van de Haar - Happy families - 21
Adam Formosa - A man's game - 26
Adam Formosa - Dry idling - 27
Rachael McGuigan - Plastic - 28
Jessica Lloyd - Quetzalcoatl's sacrifice - 32
Genevieve Tait - Hide and seek - 33
Brian Cole - Nightmares - 35
Melanie Apps - Grandad - 36
Arcadia Lyons - The pits - 38
Gilly Grundy - Fifty-four seconds - 39
Mark Bates - Yellow - 42
Harry Matthews - J. D. Salinger - 45
Sarah Jobson - Hanging frost - 46
Elizabeth Smith - Hurt (extract) - 48
Vincent Pendergast - Sunset skeleton - 51
Arcadia Lyons - Freight - 53
Jessica Wilmot and Belinda Nielsen - Simplicity - 54
James Money - Samaritan - 56
Michael Hodges - What's your poison? - 60
Matthew Egan - Stationed - 64
Peta Thomas - I don't think I know everything, I just know more than you do - 68
Eleanor Blaxland Ashby - Flying towards the sun - 72
Matilda Grogan - Sunburn - 73
Lachlan Williams - Time wasting - 75
Jessica Dendy - Breaking the egg - 76
Arno Muskens - Physic - 77
Jacqui Dent - Andy vs the green seagull - 81
Sally Evans - Three mornings - 83
Eleanor Blaxland Ashby - Song of completion - 84
Elisa Parry - After the flood - 86