Christian Thompson | Conjure by Moon | & | Rocks on Your Belly | 2013 | Pagan Sun series
Poetry Editorial: Tracy Ryan
Artworks: Eleven Portraits by Christian Thompson
Essays: Rebecca Giggs Peers into The Microscope Project and Mez Breeze offers >>Sidestepping the Known: A Loose Chronology of Meztext[ing]s
Memoir Intervention: The Northern Territory Emergency Response: Why Australia Will Not Recover from The Intervention by Ali Cobby Eckermann and Phillip Gijindarraji Hall’s My Intervention (in Cowdy)
Interviews: Elena Gomez Interviews Jahan Ramazani and Prithvi Varatharajan Interviews Maria Takolander
Chapbook: Caledonian Antisyzygy; Seven Contemporary Scottish Poets curated by Robyn Marsack and Colin Waters
Electronic: to arrive by chance by Alinta Krauth
Translations: Horse, Hawk, and Cheetah: Three Arabic Hunting Poems of Abū Nuwās by J E Montgomery, Gu Yanwu: Translations of Letters, Poems and Essays by Ian Johnston, Five Poems of Ángel González by Gonzalo Melchor, Three Poems from Wojciech Brzoska by Adam Zdrodowski and Charles Baudelaire’s ‘Les Petites Vieilles’ by Jan Owen
Blog: Lost Venues, Long Nights: An Introduction to Historical Maps of Live Music in Sydney and Melbourne by Sarah Taylor
New Reviews: Nicholas Birns reviews Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World and Duncan Hose reviews Best Australian Poems 2014
In 2013, Jessica L. Wilkinson and A J Carruthers collaborated directly on The On-Going March Box (Stale Objects dePress), a poetic object collection consisting of words and alphabet arrangements printed on oddly shaped sight cards contained in an aged box. Startlingly bold affirmations like ‘HORNS’ or ‘SHORN’ or ‘S-HORN-S’ in black and white, and ‘TO THE FORE,’ quivering with seismic formatting, behave as unapologetic provocations to the reader. Their affect is confirmed by the project’s extension of craft beyond the word: to the physical object and to the website documenting their existence.
