- 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
Stuart Cooke
Away
—further out than any of it, than this and that, than the togethers, the whatevers, the coulds and the maybe these, there’s this, further out than presence, way past it, past its fulfilment, its makeshift ends, then its hollow tubes …
Posted in 115: SPACE
Tagged Stuart Cooke
4 Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo Translations by Stuart Cooke
Regarding the 4 Sonnets of the Apocalypse
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo, Stuart Cooke
5 Gabriela Mistral Translations
Gabriela Mistral is a central figure in 20th Century Latin American poetry. She was the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize (in 1945), and to this day is the only Latin American woman to have won the …
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Gabriela Mistral, Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, Stuart Cooke
2 Translated Marcos Konder Reis Poems
Image courtesy of Museu Histórico de Itajaí. Map To the north, the bright tower, the plaza, the eternal meeting, Forever the silent agreement with your face. To the east, ocean, green, waves, foam, That distant ghost, boat and fog, The …
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Marcos Konder Reis, Stuart Cooke
Wharf
prose is tense sense an echo’s an open poem we sort our rubbish into three bins we sort out rubbish on an island’s edge the sea lurches into rivulets between rocks of prose; prose is a tense sense these things …
Posted in 83: MATHEMATICS
Tagged Stuart Cooke
Stuart Cooke Reviews Francisco Guevara
At the time of his death, Francisco Guevara – ‘Kokoy’ to everyone who knew him – was becoming a unique, unwavering presence in contemporary Filipino poetry. An unlikely graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (reports suggest that he was repeatedly stymied by the rituals of the workshop lyric), in 2010 he returned home to the Philippines to take up a position at De La Salle, one of the country’s most prestigious universities.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Francisco Guevara, Jack Spicer, Stuart Cooke
High Tide
tide memory trains down the beach the sea chops & eats itself rocks doze in purple sets of allthepossible opens the path back home’s washed over the arabesques cooling into space on another turn it’s smooth as linen a bed …
Posted in 77: EXPLODE
Tagged Stuart Cooke
Blade
The premonition was that I’m asleep, sleeping sensibly, believing it takes more violence to wake us than daybreak. – ‘The Premonition’, by John Mateer Monday morning, another black death in custody, the world emerging from the misty firmament her long, …
Posted in 69: TRANSTASMAN
Tagged Stuart Cooke
4 Melancholic Songs by Rubén Darío
Born in Nicaragua as Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, Rubén Darío (1867-1916) is one of the most famous and influential of all Latin American poets. Generally credited with initiating the modernismo movement, he has had a profound impact upon Latin American …
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Rubén Darío, Stuart Cooke
Double Shudder
In ancestor times hills cried creeks, pines jammed into species, pierced cielo. The two cities spoke in season colour, colour behind eyelid colour, ebony bay scratched with lights. Despite their buildings’ calcified retinas, despite the torrents del concreto buckling with …
Posted in 59: GONDWANALAND
Tagged Stuart Cooke
The Centre Cannot Hold: 6 Contemporary Filipino Poets
More than 92 million people live in the Philippines, making it the world’s 12th most highly-populated country. Given that many of these millions speak English as a second language, the Philippines is also one of the world’s largest English-speaking nations.
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Conchitina Cruz, Francisco Guevara, Mabi David, Marc Gaba, Marjorie Evasco, Ricardo M. de Ungria, Stuart Cooke, Ynna Abuan
Opera
After each useless, ephemeral voyage I return to the house and its quay; I circle the edge before skittling off to the suburbs. Come to me, I cry, fat plastic and screaming sail, shining, golden city cramped and seeping music! …
Posted in 49: SYDNEY
Tagged Stuart Cooke
Valparaíso and Tourist
Before the broken edges of an old city’s coast; before the waves breaking on the wharves; a city lost in the fog tumbling in from the ocean, in snakes of fog sliding down from the mountains, I’m tumbling through skins …
Posted in 46: ELECTRONICA
Tagged Stuart Cooke
Stuart Cooke Reviews Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
From at least as far back as Heraclitus, scholars have been warning us about the irresistible and irretrievable nature of history. The past provides little that is stable, other than an unwavering reminder of the constancy of change. The task of entering history, therefore, is fraught with complications.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Stuart Cooke
Oil on Air (바람의 유화)
To think of all the expectant creatures circling about, the gulls circling, the white cat dozing into orbits beside me, the crystalline drift of an ant colony between lines, even the eruption of the gangly palm, over time, would swirl …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Sunghyun, Stuart Cooke
Volcano Meditation (화산 명상)
All the best men are interested in other men, or their forearms are strong and lightly haired. All the best men are already without that which they need no longer. So it is that each woman, adrift, ends up with …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Gaihyun, Stuart Cooke
Common I (DISCO REMIX)
I lack, unlike the others, a menagerie of identities. I was a bright-eyed ingénue at the agency after-party, coked-up, Scarlatti played his cement rib, the tulips were thoroughly roasted, narcotic, terse. Who was Allen Ginsberg? (The incline runs to golden …
Posted in 41: CC - THE REMIXES
Tagged Stuart Cooke
sueltame rocky coast smelter
sueltame hermana media hermana nada mas que un acquaintance an accident historic agujero negro never negro never the home place never the broken home platitudes only the sucios make you sweat second hand I came to understand la ley de …
Posted in 40: CREATIVE COMMONS
Tagged Stuart Cooke
Pastoral Editorial
When we began throwing around ideas for this issue, the notion of 'Pastoral' first came up as a joke. Because ever since god knows when, for reasons that always seem to depend on one's thoughts regarding the generation of '68, …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged pastoral, Stuart Cooke
Stuart Cooke: Conversation with the Bird Man
I came back telling them all about the landscape but he he in particular said no I don't agree the air is clearer the clouds more discernable but the rosellas I cried they sung like madmen on high speed dubbing …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
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Stuart Cooke: Swansea Foreshore
We caught a finely spun flight of aluminium silk through the slow Swansea light. Sunset dredged copper, dwindled histories over mangrove forests; we flew over metal mist while seeping, seeping up from the water grey prisms frayed into salt-fine arms …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Tagged Stuart Cooke
Stuart Cooke Reviews Michael Farrell
Apart from a solitary '1,' the first page of a raiders guide is blank. Note the presence of the comma. What it suggests of the pages that follow is a transience between the concrete ('.') and the absent (' '). The book's entry functions as much as a point of departure as one of beginning; we all delve into different interstices. So we come to the first poem: unanchored by a table of contents (which, along with page numbers, a raiders guide does not have) yet, unlike the rest of the poems, it is ordered into dense blocks of text.
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Tagged michael farrell, Stuart Cooke
Broome Beach Art
we sit by the o cean paddocks sipping moisture from salty scars this is the blee ding the in terminable drift sourcewards by opening the wet eye we can leave the bushy one c losed losen up read currents swells …
Posted in 31: SECRET CITIES
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