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Ambiguities and Performatives: and Performances, Too. Graham Hough; Chris Kraus/ Jenny Turner
Full text link The most striking sentence in the late Graham Hough’s essay ‘An Eighth Type of Ambiguity’ is: “…behind Empson’s seven types of ambiguity there lurks an eighth – ambiguity between intended and achieved meaning” (p. 223). Hough illustrates the difference between intended and achieved meaning elegantly, in a series of pieces of literary analysis with which none of the old ‘New Critics’ could disagree, and which any post-Derrida, post-Theory (theory of what?) critic need not cavil at. For all the commonsensicality of Hough’s literary analysis, it is not quite clear that Empson’s seven types and Hough’s eighth type one of the same logical type. This is a question to which I shall have to return. It is the issue crucial to what seems to be Hough’s claim to add 1 to Empson’s 7: If, indeed, that is his claim. 
Julieanne Lamond. Lohrey: Melbourne University Press, 2022. Contemporary Australian Writers. 173 pages. AU$29.99. ISBN: 9780522878936
Full text linkEmma Maguire reviews Julieanne Lamond's Lohrey (2022)
Letter to a seabird
Full text linkIn May 2020, when I should have been experiencing spring in Scotland, I was instead living in Queensland, surfing the point breaks of the southern Gold Coast as the autumn swells rolled in. It was there that I noticed a bird I had never seen before and didn’t know how to identify. Over coming weeks and months, I would watch this bird and others like it dive for fish from a great height, mesmerised. I wanted to know more. In my strange/letter, addressed to the birds, I track my attempts to identify and understand them via close observation and research, a process that led me back to Scotland through Bryan Nelson’s monograph, The Gannet (1978). I trace the way in which I began to feel a sense of kinship with this animal, while also interrogating the limits of that kinship, amid a backdrop of border closures and uncertainty that was the strange southern winter of 2020
Decarbonising Transport in the European Union
Full text linkIn its emerging role as a climate leader, the European Union is aiming to become the first carbon neutral continent by 2050 (European Commission, 2019). This involves ambitious measures to decarbonise by i.a. reducing emissions in the transport sector. However while other EU sectors have decreased emissions since 1990, transport has experienced an increase. It seems unlikely that reduction rates will be reachd with the currently proposed solutions. Further action and policy change will be required to achieve these aims
New moss records for Vanua Levu, Fiji
Full text linkFourteen species of mosses are newly recorded from the Savusa area and the greater Delaikoro area onVanua Levu, Fiji’s second largest island. The fourteen species belong to ten different families, Cyrtopodaceae,Dicranaceae, Hypnodendraceae, Meteoriaceae, Neckeraceae, Orthotrichaceae, Polytrichaceae, Pterobryaceae,Ptychomniaceae and Sematophyllaceae. Four moss species are new records for Vanua Levu, Pogonatumgraeffeanum (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger, Macromitrium angulatum Mitt., Meiothecium hamatum Broth. andPapillaria helictophylla (Mont.) Broth., while the remaining ten species were previously reported from otherlocations. The novel distribution records for these species are provided, with notes on their extended rangeof distribution. Field illustrations of all fourteen taxa are provided, with voucher specimens deposited aspermanent records at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium in Fiji
