Issue 4: Experience and Transcendence

1998

Editorial

FEATURES

Kevin Hart
Experience and Transcendence in the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer
Adam Aitken | Interview with Martin Harrison
Simon Patton | Jennifer Compton’s Hammer

POETRY

Chris Andrews | Mortal | Adrift
John Ashbery | The Pathetic Fallacy
Paola Bilbrough | Canvastown
Peter Boyle | Everyday | Two translations of Octavio Paz
joanne burns | shelf life | truce: the humid handshake
Jennifer Compton | Safe House
Tricia Dearborn | schlieren lines
Dan Disney | Two poems
Keri Glastonbury | Rent Boy | Pulp
Philip Harvey | Q | Z
Lisa Jacobson | Evolutionary Tales No 1: Flight and distant travel
Andy Kissane | On the highway
Emma Lew | Now, Some Facts
John Mateer | Towards Wilpeena Pound, South Australia
Kevin Murray | Story
Patricia Prime | Artist at work
Brian Purcell | Rita Coolidge Plays Mt Druitt
Debbie Robson | The Lighthouse
Graham Rowlands | The State of the Union
Brendan Ryan | Argyle St
Gig Ryan | Rameses
Nick Reimer | Unrecorded
Michelle Taylor | Paris
Dara Weir | The White Boat
Zhu Wen | bend over eat grass (translated by Simon Patton)
Deb Westbury | Metropolis
Yu Xinjiao | Benediction (translated by Simon Patton)
Ouyang Yu | untitled for a number of times already | The Other Eye
Matthew Zapruder | Unfortunately I’m Dead

REVIEWS

Tiara Lowndes
     Ben Brady & DJ Huppatz (eds.), AUTOMATIC & Justin Lowe (ed.), HOMEBREW
Jennifer Kremmer
     Hugh Tolhurst’s FILTH & OTHER POEMS
Geraldine McKenzie
     Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (eds.) POEMS FOR THE MILLENIUM:
     THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BOOK OF MODERN & POSTMODERN POETRY VOL 2)
Karen Attard
     Zan Ross’ B-GRADE
John Bennett
     John Hawke (ed.) THE NIGHTJAR–THE 1997 NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY
Sue Bower
     FRIENDLY STREET NEW POETS No 4 (Junice Direen’s THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY FACE,
     Jules Leigh Koch’s A STRIP OF NEGATIVES & Jason Sweeney’s BOY STUNNER)
Bev Braune
     Neil Paech’s THE SKINSCAPE VOYEUR & Stephen Lawrence’s BEASTS LABIAL
Lauren Williams
     Anthony Lawrence’s NEW AND SELECTED POEMS

IMAGES

Denis Mizzi | Untitled (Cover image) | Untitled

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Editors Adrian Wiggins, Margie Cronin & Jennifer Kremmer
Released 1998
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