- 114: NO THEME 13with J Toledo & C Tse 113: INVISIBLE WALLSwith A Walker & D Disney 112: TREATwith T Dearborn 111: BABYwith S Deo & L Ferney 110: POP!with Z Frost & B Jessen 109: NO THEME 12with C Maling & N Rhook 108: DEDICATIONwith L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik 107: LIMINALwith B Li 106: OPENwith C Lowe & J Langdon 105: NO THEME 11with E Grills & E Stewart 104: KINwith E Shiosaki 103: AMBLEwith E Gomez and S Gory 102: GAMEwith R Green and J Maxwell 101: NO THEME 10with J Kinsella and J Leanne 100: BROWNFACE with W S Dunn 99: SINGAPOREwith J Ip and A Pang 97 & 98: PROPAGANDAwith M Breeze and S Groth 96: NO THEME IXwith M Gill and J Thayil 95: EARTHwith M Takolander 94: BAYTwith Z Hashem Beck 93: PEACHwith L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong 92: NO THEME VIIIwith C Gaskin 91: MONSTERwith N Curnow 90: AFRICAN DIASPORAwith S Umar 89: DOMESTICwith N Harkin 88: TRANSQUEERwith S Barnes and Q Eades 87: DIFFICULTwith O Schwartz & H Isemonger 86: NO THEME VIIwith L Gorton 85: PHILIPPINESwith Mookie L and S Lua 84: SUBURBIAwith L Brown and N O'Reilly 83: MATHEMATICSwith F Hile 82: LANDwith J Stuart and J Gibian 81: NEW CARIBBEANwith V Lucien 80: NO THEME VIwith J Beveridge 57.1: EKPHRASTICwith C Atherton and P Hetherington 57: CONFESSIONwith K Glastonbury 56: EXPLODE with D Disney 55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUSwith 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
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Dave Drayton
Alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides)
Presenting a white paper flower On your birthday I was wearing The worst possible behaviour Limbs all hollowed out. On your birthday I was wearing Rivers I’d found somewhere I shouldn’t be. Limbs all hollowed out In plants lining Georges …
Posted in 111: BABY
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Centocartography, Harwood: jaywalking
Slice through the inverse mappings of the plane There are streets I can’t cross for the ghosts And unsuspecting doves Not sure that anything’s amiss That morning when I came (Mappings of the Plane; Herongate; A Feline Requiem; The Flight …
Posted in 106: OPEN
Tagged Dave Drayton
Centocarography, San Francisco: dirty dancing
Bob Kaufman, ‘Walking Parker Home’; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West’; Kenneth Rexroth, ‘Education’; Jack Kerouac, ‘Bowery Blues’; Ambrose Bierce ‘Diagnosis’
Posted in 105: NO THEME 11
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Andrew Bonar Law
1916 – 1922 Andrew Bonar Law: Bonar was a skilled amateur chess player and competed with international chess masters. This poem takes the form of a chessboard and explores Bonar Law’s negotiations with the United States over Britain’s war loans, …
Posted in 102: GAME
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Michelago 2620
Portraits-robots after Michèle Métail NSW BOX HEAD CROWDY HEAD BROOMS HEAD WOODY HEAD DIAMOND HEAD JOLLY NOSE HAT HEAD CRESCENT HEAD BROKEN HEAD GRASSY HEAD GATESHEAD NORTH ARM UPPER MAIN ARM MAIN ARM MIDDLE ARM SOUTH ARM SOUTH ARM LONGARM …
Posted in 91: MONSTER
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Dave Drayton Reviews Zoe Dzunko and Sam Wagan Watson
Zoe Dzunko’s beautifully designed Selfless, published by TAR Chapbook Series, is similarly immersed in appearances and reflections – both mirror images and the act of rumination – of her many selves.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Dave Drayton, Sam Wagan Watson, Zoe Dzunko
Dave Drayton Reviews Carmine Frascarelli and Mark A Peart
In the nonfiction poetry issue of Axon that she co-edited with Ali Alizadeh, Jessica L Wilkinson highlights the impact that Jordie Albiston’s The Hanging of Jean Lee had on her as an undergraduate in 2001. Albiston’s collection is a poetic biography of Lee, the last woman to be executed in Australia. Wilkinson would later be influenced by Susan Howe – whose practice both informed and was a focus of Wilkinson’s doctoral study – to found Rabbit: a Journal of Non-fiction Poetry in 2011; however, a line can be traced from the early impact of Albiston’s book, to the journal, and on to the fledgling Rabbit Poets Series, which began with Albiston’s XIII Poems in 2013.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Carmine Frascarelli, Dave Drayton, Jordie Albiston, Mark A Peart
Geodesic Suite (Excerpts: XX)
past planet PAST hash kibitz hurtle zone PLANET advice gift HASHURTLEDDO KIBITZONEARTHS eddo earths ADVICEYESAVINE eyes tsking savine gods GIFTSKINGODS garish sins AGOGARISHOLD BABIESINSTORKS agog babies SNAKESPITOUTER hold storks snakes wake WAKEMOTERISE touter rise BEGINS LIFE spit emoter begins life …
Posted in 75: FUTURE MACHINES
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