Stray Bats Read online

  Fremantle, WA, 2014.

  “Party to an Invocation”—“Carousel” by Tracy Ryan, in The Water Bearer, Fremantle Press, Fremantle, WA, 2018.

  “Emplotment”—“love affair” by Jodie Lea Martire, in Mark Tredinnick (ed.), Australian Love Poems 2013, Inkerman & Blunt Publishers, Carlton South, Vic., 2013.

  “Hag-Hunter”—“The Man Who Shot Lions” by Josephine Rowe, Overland no. 199, Winter 2010. , accessed 11 January 2019.

  “Flight School”—“Flight Path” by Lisa Jacobson, Hair & Skin & Teeth, Five Islands Press, Wollongong, NSW, 1995.

  “Win”—“Poem” by Gig Ryan, Excavation: (arguments and monologues), Picador poetry series, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, NSW, 1990.

  “Being Summoned”—“Being Called For” by Rosemary Dobson, Collected Poems, Angus & Robertson, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Published with permission of the Rosemary Dobson Estate, c/o Curtis Brown Australia.

  “Spirit Girl”—“Sure-Footed” by Jane Gibian, in Michael Brennan and Peter Minter (eds), Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, Fine Art Publishing, St Leonards, NSW, 2000.

  “Wyrm-Witch”—“Sun-Dew” by Louisa Anne Meredith, in John Leonard (ed.), Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic., 1998.

  “Interlacing”—“Silent Sex” by Sally Chik, in Mark Tredinnick (ed.), Australian Love Poems 2013, Inkerman & Blunt Publishers, Carlton South, Vic., 2013.

  “Aged Caring”—“Empty Spaces” by Rosemary Dobson, Untold Lives & Later Poems, Rose Bay: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2000. Published with permission of the Rosemary Dobson Estate, c/o Curtis Brown Australia.

  “Passed Master”—“We Outgrow Love Like Other Things” by Susan Fealy, in Mark Tredinnick (ed.), Australian Love Poems 2013, Inkerman & Blunt Publishers, Carlton South, Vic., 2013.

  “Hand Magic”—“The Magic of Hands” by Katherine Gallagher, Australian Poetry Library, , accessed 15 February 2019.

  “Digs”—“Bricks and Lightning” by Ellen van Neerven, in Comfort Food, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 2016.

  “Costumier”—“Dressmaker” by Diane Fahey, in Turning the Hourglass, Dangaroo Press, Sydney, NSW, 1990.

  “Those Women”—“And they are angry” by Fiona Wright, in Overland no. 223, Winter 2016, , accessed 11 January 2019.

  “Unchosen”—“Suburban Song” by Elizabeth Riddell, in Forbears, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, NSW, 1961.

  “Kez the Gardener”—untitled poem by Helen Garner, in Kate Jennings (ed.), Mother I’m Rooted: An Anthology of Australian Women Poets, edited by Kate Jennings, Outback Press, Fitzroy, Vic., 1975.

  “Tower View”—“Caught” by Susan Adams, in redroom online journal, , accessed 10 March 2019.

  “Pounce”—“The Afternoon of the Pervert” by Elizabeth Hathorn, in Kate Jennings (ed.), Mother I’m Rooted: An Anthology of Australian Women Poets, edited by Kate Jennings, Outback Press, Fitzroy, Vic., 1975.

  “Invitations”—“The Invitation” by Gillian E. Hanscombe, in Kate Jennings (ed.), Mother I’m Rooted: An Anthology of Australian Women Poets, edited by Kate Jennings, Outback Press, Fitzroy, Vic., 1975.

  “Dormitory”—“Out of Body Experience” by Jennifer Harrison, in Colombine: New and Selected Poems, Black Pepper, North Fitzroy, Vic., 2010.

  “Witches of a Certain Age”—“Women of a Certain Age”, by Bronwyn Lea, Australian Literary Review, vol. 3, no. 11, 2008, p. 25.

  “To a Mentee”—“No Money” by Anna Ryan-Punch, in Night Fishing, Five Islands Press, Parkville Vic., 2018.

  “Dragon”—“The Shark” by Judith Beveridge, , accessed 11 January 2019. First published in Storm and Honey, Giramondo Publishing, Artarmon, NSW, 2009.

  “Fritzel”—“My Dachshund Schnitzel” by Fay Zwicky, in The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky, ed. Lucy Dougan and Tim Dolin, University of Western Australia Publishing, Crawley, WA, 2017.

  “Peeping”—“Bloom” by Eileen Chong, in Geoff Page, The Best Australian Poems 2015, Black Inc., Melbourne, Vic., 2015.

  About the Author

  Margo Lanagan has published two dark fantasy novels, and Stray Bats is her eighth short story collection. She collaborated with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti on the New York Times-bestselling YA superheroes trilogy, Zeroes. Her work has won four World Fantasy Awards, nine Aurealis and five Ditmar Awards. Her books and stories have been translated into 19 languages. Margo lives in Sydney.

  About the Illustrator

  Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator and writer in Brisbane, Australia. She is a Hugo Award finalist and has been shortlisted three times for the World Fantasy Award, has received the E. G. Harvey Award for Australian SF Art, and several Ditmar Awards for professional and fan art. Many of her illustrations and incidental drawings appear on her blog tanaudel.wordpress.com and she tweets @tanaudel.