Chris Gooch
Monster Editorial: by Nathan Curnow
Artwork:
12 Panels by Chris Gooch
Essays:
On Being Sanguine: Two Years of Panic and a Response to Terror in Christchurch by Charles Olsen
A Deaf Rough Trade: Defending Poetry to ‘regular people’ by Alice Allan
Poetry, Whatsoever: Blake, Blau DuPlessis, and an Expansive Definition of the Poem by Ali Jane Smith
Translations:
A Buzz in the Retina: On Translating Luljeta Lleshanaku by Ani GJika
5 Translated Yosuke Tanaka Poems by Shane Strange, Paul Hetherington, Andrew Houwen, Yosuke Tanaka
Interviews:
‘That is some crafty bite’: Trisha Pender Interviews Melinda Bufton
‘You’re never disembodied from the action’: Dylan Frusher Interviews Judith Beveridge
Chapbooks:
6 Poems from Robin M Eames
Excerpts from Neon Daze by Amy Brown
Scholarly:
Chorography and Toute-eau in the Waters of Lower Murray Country by Camille Rouliere
Aussi / Or: Un Coup de dés and Mistranslation in the Antipodes by Toby Fitch
I’m writing this after news that W S Merwin has died. His Selected Poems still sits on my bedside table, never far away in case of a spare moment.
Michelle Leggott and Elizabeth Smither are both former Poet Laureates, with distinguished careers behind them. Night Horse won the poetry category of the 50th Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and Vanishing Points has already been received to great acclaim. Even though there are some major stylistic differences between these two books, there are many surprising coincidences.
A ripe peach may seem the embodiment of the good life, but in this issue, PEACH also stands for the bitterness of brutality as well as the richness of resistance.
