Issue 5: Performance Poetry Special

1999

Editorial

ESSAYS

Jennifer Compton
Not a review: Derek Walcott’s Omeros & Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune

Felicity Holland
Laureate Ted and The Big Striptease: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Wednesday Kennedy
Trials and Collaborations

David Prater
The Mallarmé Writer’s Event

Todd Swift
The Hungry Art of the Slam Poet

REVIEWS

Michelle Carter
     WEDNESDAY KENNEDY Post Romantic
Tricia Dearborn
     CATHERINE BATESON The Vigilant Heart
Brian Henry
     JAMES TATE Shroud of the Gnome
Charlotte Jones
     JEAN KENT The Satin Bowerbird
Rebecca Jones
     PETER BAKOWSKI The Heart at 3am
David Kelly
     IAN MCBRYDE Flank
Geraldine McKenzie
     FRANK KUPPNER Second Best Moments in Chinese History
Phil Norton
     ALISTAIR STEWART Frankston 281
Pi O
     Going Down Swinging, Hobo, &, Red Lamp, Textbase, rHino, Spur
Brian Purcell
     FOOTLOOSE PRODUCTIONS So Be It
Michelle Taylor
     JUDY JOHNSON Wing Corrections

POETRY

Emily Ballou | Enter
Mary Jo Bang | When the Weather Changes to Warm, the Boys Drive Shirtless
Judith Beveridge | Woman in a Street Stall
Ken Bolton | Happy Accidents
Alain Bosquet | In a sex shop | Scene in a town
     translated by Rae Sexton
Pam Brown | At the Ian Burn show | In Surry Hills | In Ultimo in ‘98
Kathielyn Job | Change
August Kleinzahler | Someone Named Gutierrez: A Dream, A Western
Stephen J Lacey | revolving restaurant
Deb Matthews | Red
Mal Morgan | I’ll Leave a Poem or Two | The Man in a Poem | The Verb Mourir
Michelle Morgan | So let me get this straight
Pi O | Everything Poem, part 4
Dorothy Porter | Disaster
David Prater | Xanana’s Dog
Patricia Prime | Pregnant Woman in Red
Matthew Rohrer | Dreamocracy | Precision German Craftsmanship
Philip Salom | Acupuncturist; Under the Needles
Peter Skryznecki | Day Stay
Elizabeth Treadwell | Pro Model Tells Story
Dara Weir | Apology for and Further Explanation of an Attempt to Divert Accusations of Equivocation
Jane Williams | the lodger
Mijanou Zigane | Yesterday’s Solution

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Editor Adrian Wiggins
Released 1999
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