Working class poets write about family, work, growing up, where they live, politics and the future. SARAH ATTFIELD asserts the importance of working class poetry with a survey of some contemporary Australian writers, and GEOFF GOODFELLOW, perhaps Australia’s most prominent working class poet, is interviewed. Poetry by KERRY WATSON, GRAHAM ROWLANDS, GEOFF GOODFELLOW, PIO, CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE, LAUREN WILLIAMS, MICK SEARLES and many others. JUDE McCULLOCH examines Australia’s new McCarthyism; HUMPRHEY McQUEEN writes about the five stages of globalisation; SUSAN HOLMES writes a Morwell memoir; Four critics examine Authority & Influence in Australian literary criticism. A bumper 36-page review section covering history, biography, politics, fiction and poetry.