Contents

Images of the Cross Reviews of books by authors who have chosen the Cross as the subject (or setting) of their work. Includes - reviews of Mandy Sayer's Dreamtime Alice, The Cross, and her latest book, 15 Kinds of Desire, In the Gutter...Looking at the Stars A Literary Adventure Through Kings Cross edited by Louis Nowra and Mandy Sayer (including Anne Summers launch speech of the anthology), Linda Jaivin's Miles Walker, You're Dead, and Eat Me, Rosie Scott's faith singer, James Cockington's When the man in the gold mustang met the girl from the Pink Pussycat, Inez Baranez's Pagan, Zara Powell's Memories of a Touch of Class: Life in Australia's best-known bordello Rosalind Reines, Louis Nowra's Red Nights, and Images of the Cross in the poetry of Kenneth Slessor, Harry Hooten, and Anna Couani by Ruark Lewis. Photography: - A Studio at the Cross by Juno Gemes, Musician and Bikie Animal at the Wayside Chapel by Annette Willis.

New Writing of the Cross Stories, essays, and poems that focus on the Cross including poetry by Robert Adamson, Robert Balas, Martin Harrison, Ruark Lewis, Peter Boyle, Les Wicks, Dawn Bruce, Simm Steel, and Angelika Fremd. A story by historian Sister Catherine O'Carrigan. Essays by Kings Cross Newsletter editor, Emma Scott, as well as by Evelayne Hoctor and Marjorie Virvillis. Poem by visitor to Kings Cross, Sydney from Kings Cross, London - Simon Barraclough.


Street Life of the Cross Stories and poems describing Kings Cross 'Street Life' presented by Angelika Fremd (CrossLines editor) and by Noeline Mitchell who converted her 'poetryboard' at the Wayside Chapel Opportunity Shop into this online feature. Includes Kings Cross Street Life photos by Roz Sharp.

 Writing from Lou's Place Journalist Delia Rothnie-Jones' compilation of works written in her creative writing workshops at Lou's Place, a drop-in centre for women in Victoria Street, Potts Point. (online only)

People of the Cross The Cross has attracted an interesting and varied community of residents, many of whom are writers or artists, and some of whom are men of God who minister to those 'living hard' on the streets of the Cross. Father Sinn of St Canices and Rev Ray Richmond of the Wayside Chapel are included here, as well as Bill Lawton, formerly of St John's. Writers Catherine Gluck, and Robin Dalton, as well as local identities Emma Scott, editor of the Kings Cross Newsletter, Roz Sharp, photographer, Miki Wairoa and the late Terry Blake, editor of the infamous Kings Cross Whisper, have been featured. A late addition is the feature on Juanita Nielsen who stands in a category of her own. Includes photography by Marco Bok and Roz Sharp.

 

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CrossLines has received financial or in-kind support from The Kings Cross Place Management Project, an initiative of the NSW State Government and the South Sydney City Council, the South Sydney City Council through their Community Grants Scheme, the staff the of Kings Cross Library, and the Projectroom Virtual Studio Space.