FUTURE MACHINES Editorial: Bella Li
Essays:
Unbidden: Settler Poetry in the Presence of Indigenous Sovereignty by Bonny Cassidy
Artwork:
Ten Works by Juan Ford
Scholarly:
‘The birds of paradise sing without a needing a supple branch’: Joseph Brodsky and the Poetics of Exile by Ekaterina Pechenkina
Translingualism, Home, Ambivalence: The Poet Dimitris Tsaloumas by Vrasidas Karalis
Translations:
Three Translated Péter Závada Poems by Mark Baczoni
Three Translated Rajathi Salma Poems by Rizio Yohannan Raj
Three Translated Mardonio Carballo Poems by Ileana Villarreal
Interviews:
We Need to Talk about Caste: Roanna Gonsalves Interviews S Anand
Rilke, Cavafy, Hölderlin: Simeon Kronenberg Interviews Luke Fischer
Chapbooks:
Written Land: A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook curated by Matthew Hall
Things We Inherited: Voices from Africa Curated by Liyou Libsekal with Caroline Uliwa, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Ejiofor Ugwu, Inua Ellams, Ladan Osman, Liyou Libsekal, Nick Makoha, Safia Elhillo and Tjawangwa Dema
In the winter of Pokémon Go, I read quite a few new books of poetry. The collection Poems of Hiromi Itō, Toshiko Hirata & Takako Arai was the most cogent. These three Japanese poets are taboo-breaking women who write without reservation about ‘female experience’ in the political context of contemporary transnational capitalism.
