NO THEME VI Editorial: Judith Beveridge
Essays:
Words and Spills: Disability, Sexuality and Cripping Your Poetry by Kit Kavanagh-Ryan
Thirty-Six Views of the Parallax: Mark Young’s the eclectic world, Bandicoot habitat and lithic typology by Javant Biarujia
Mansplaining Abortion in Alexis Lateef’s ‘Procedure’ by Jessica Durham and Mel Pearce
Private David Jones’s In Parenthesis and The Anathemata by Peter Salmon
Artwork:
Mass Culture: Artworks by Chun Yin Rainbow Chan
Scholarly:
Dissecting the Apocalypse: Jorie Graham’s Sea Change by Caroline Williamson
Translations:
Two Translated Borys Humenyuk Poems by Oksana Maksymchuk and Kevin Vaughn
Two Translated Nadia Anjuman Poems by Farzana Marie
Two Translated Georg Trakl Poems by Christopher Newton
Interviews:
Ainslie Templeton Interviews Christopher (Loma) Soto
Autumn Royal Interviews Cecilia Vicuña
eChapbook:
Lee Cataldi New Poems with an Introduction by Joanne Burns
The thing for me is, firstly, while I recognise the usefulness of full publication as a rubicon for determining real writers from aspiring ones, I do think there are many things that we can miss. For instance, over the last few years, some local anthologies have been published, representing the poetic output at national levels – Jubilation which celebrated 50 years of Jamaican independence, Ste. Lisi: Poems and Art of St. Lucia, published in honour of one of St. Lucia’s elder statesmen of letters, McDonald Dixon; 100 Poems from Trinidad and Tobago and several anthologies coming out of St. Martin, under House of Nehesi publishing.
Bella Li’s Argosy offers readers a book of real adventure: the adventure of form, and a challenge to our sense of what shapes a narrative. This work is fundamentally hybrid: amid short texts and textual sequences that may be termed prose poems, or micro-essays, or short short fictions, Li intersperses works of collage and photography.
I will first attempt to develop one possible reading of ‘On the Concept of History’, taking for granted that any such reading exists alongside – and may even contradict – other more familiar interpretations. The second part of the article will follow this line of thinking in approaching Jorie Graham’s Sea Change, a collection of poetry that explores the catastrophic possibilities of global warming.
The invention of transfinite set theory by the 19th Century German mathematician, Georg Cantor, hinges the romantic conception of a boundless infinite to a post-Cantorian description of an infinity of infinities.