- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
CONTRIBUTORS
Beth Merindah
The Children’s War
Children at the beach dig shoe-box-sized pits to bury their little brothers and sisters. They dig with their hands or bubblegum-coloured spades. Some are swaddled, bleeding rose petals between soft folds. Some are skeletons, re-assembled from pieces of flotsam, driftwood, …
Posted in 112: TREAT
Tagged Beth Merindah
Earth Apple
You stack his limbs, like kindling, on an eggshell mattress study his mottled skin. Yellow and bruised as though bitten by late blight. Hanging each breath’s a little dust-cloud his halo settles into sediment, raining spittle flecks on starchy sheets. …
Posted in 109: NO THEME 12
Tagged Beth Merindah
The Force Publique of Lithium-ion Batteries
‘For the colonialists all means are good if they help them to possess these riches.’ — Patrice Lumumba Then, our eldest cousin counseled us; the small children — The dried apricots, aren’t apricots at all, they are the ears of …
Posted in 108: DEDICATION
Tagged Beth Merindah
Postnatal Obeah
We planted your naval string in a pit that your father dug, so that every Autumn we could eat sweet figs. We broke ground with white rum and buried your placenta with: the clumps of hair that fell to my …
Posted in 104: KIN
Tagged Beth Merindah
Middle Quarters
Worn women line the roadside waving cello bags of spicy shrimp — burning with scotch bonnet — they’ve dug from the muddy swamps hugging Wray and Nephew’s sugar cane. The asphalt, eaten by rainy season storms, is scarred like skin …
Posted in 103: AMBLE
Tagged Beth Merindah
Influence
YAS. So retro. SO GOOD. Flames sis. Hella Dope. Kim bangin. You’re so fly. You gangster. Sit on my face. Wenaaa amiga. Red is a feeling. Literally no one:….Kim: INVENTS RED. Exelente Excelente Excelente Exelencia Dope as f**k. MG FIRSTTT …
Posted in 100: BROWNFACE
Tagged Beth Merindah
Scandal Bag
The scandal bag spilled its belly on the foreshore filling the sand with foam, bile, grabba, and a plastic film that suffocated tamarind seeds studded with sugar. It was a black jellyfish swimming in streams of squid ink, propelled forward …
Posted in 95: EARTH
Tagged Beth Merindah
