‘Microtonal Wall’ image courtesy of Tristan Perich
Poetry Editorial: Corey Wakeling
Essays: Against Colony Collapse Disorder; or, Settler Mess in the Cells of Contemporary Australian Poetry by Ann Vickery and What We (non)Believe: Reading Poems by Charles Wright, John Burnside, and Kevin Hart by Lachlan Brown
Artwork: 1-bit Signals: Computation as Music and Visual Art by Tristan Perich. Includes: Machine Drawings, Between the Silences (for 9 strings and 9-channel 1-bit electronics) and more.
Poetry Objects: Excerpts from Graphic Novella by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and James Faulkner’s Disintegraton Machine by Nick Whittock
Scholarly: Comics Poetry: The Art of the Possible by Tamryn Bennett
Interview: Adam Aitken Interviews Martin Harrison (revised from 1998)
New Reviews: Paul Hetherington Reviews The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, edited by John Kinsella and rob mclennan Reviews 70 Canadian Poets, Fifth Edition
Blog: Notes on her ‘Gibson’s Folly (Tambo River)’ by Louise Crisp
Being in and of one’s time (in favour of it, in fact) means producing work that is sensitive to the discursive furies of the day – the atmosphere of mutating code that the poet must stick to poems in new and strange forms. All else is nostalgia and denial. No-one knows what it means that Australia’s imperial republic, whose god has finally been revealed as cosmopolitan capitalism, is, in the history of colonies, still in its infancy yet so impressively seems to be approaching an end of days. If you’ve got burnt chaps and a warm six-shooter (cowgirl), these are exciting times.
