- 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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Greg McLaren
Couvade syndrome
For Inez and Frankie As your nodes decide on legs, on arms, and while your heart’s not yet enclosed, and your skin translucent as those fishes’ pulsing bodies, I develop backache, nausea – not quite phantoms, but a song, measured …
Posted in 112: TREAT
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camping underground
After The small town to the south-east of what’d seemed safe – the neat array of bodies in front yards feet first, entry wounds clean in their foreheads. And, looking closer – you always need to look closer – small …
Posted in 91: MONSTER
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At the Sidney Nolan Retrospective, 2008
It stretches past the vast windows to the Domain, the Harbour, the Cahill Expressway and its fugue of inner urban motoring, all the way back to Nolan’s desert, posted with Robert O’Hara Burke’s focusless eyes, azure, intense, a mad cosmology …
Posted in 79: EKPHRASTIC
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Lineage
What whales are now began on land – the shores of Pakistan – and slowly shed hind legs, resorbed as relict stubs of bone that float inside the body, cartilage as memory that returns in freaks when genes that code …
Posted in 66: OBSOLETE
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Not under Lake Eucumbene
for Adrian, Bonny, Fiona and Lindsay State-owned water floated, a new sky. Raised floor plans are bones of fish in mud. Dead trees signpost hushed streets lined with rushes. Concrete steps lead up to an absence of church. Ochre struts …
Posted in 66: OBSOLETE
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Greg McLaren Reviews Phillip Gijindarraji Hall and Benjamin Dodds
These two debut collections cast shade and light upon one other. Both poets construct a complex, convincing and engaging sense of place, exploring belonging (or not) and being in it.
The strongest poems in Phillip Gijindarraji Hall’s Sweetened in Coals quiver and hiss with profusion, connections and abundance. These poems are firmly and specifically situated in place and in country that is constituted both ecologically and culturally. There’s a deep and rich conversation here about place and habitat. Hall’s representation and evocation of specific places is a consistently powerful presence in these poems – dynamic, in flux and abundant with the presence of animal, plant and cultural life.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Benjamin Dodds, Greg McLaren, Phillip Gijindarraji Hall
Honey
Walking home along New Canterbury Road I pass under a eucalypt I can’t name – the rumour of honey, the frayed brake lining of magpies – and I think of our walk around Manly Dam the first week of summer, …
Posted in 47: NO THEME!
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Childhood Trauma
After John Tranter They burn the radio, they listen to the blue. The okapi farmers whisper at their meetings, and skirt the gardens. Their articles revel in a cultural effect. A multiple connection is enough, I suppose; it’s a …
Posted in 46: ELECTRONICA
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Greg McLaren: Robert Adamson in The Valley of Gwangi
There are terrible reptiles we never quite catch with our puny lassoes We leave camp in the morning disguised as animals – Eohippus the dawn horse, or the bird-mimic, Ornithomimus I never really believed it when I first laid eyes …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
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Mulloway (Envoi)
Welcome to the dreamy village of Mulloway, population 28.1, set in the backblocks of the Hawkesbury, somewhere in the vicinity of Sandy Bay, Peat Island and the Angler's Rest. The place is awash with ribbon-fish shaped streamers and the sound of a parade of Customlines passing down the main street toward the water, all to a sound track of late-period Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Greg McLaren, robert adamson
Writers Festival Pastoral
The room hovers with translucent light reflected from the ferries' harbour. Seats float, awash with the voices of well-known, but not major, Canadian poets. Stubby tops of pylons plug the water, a template of equidistant spacing, like a competent set …
Posted in 27: GENERATION OF ZEROES
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Greg McLaren: Bronwyn Bishop in The Hunt for Red October
When she proudly claims to be the “only Member of Parliament ever to go down all night on a submarine”, murderous impulses arise in the mind of the Buddhist tulku Steven Seagal.
Posted in 27: GENERATION OF ZEROES
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Kurri Sonnet
Chocolate on your breath at the bus-stop is instant forgetting. In five minutes Kurri will recede from bus back window. Maitland will loom too slowly. Hamilton, Teralba. Soon Redfern, Sydney Central. Now the 5:31 from Cessnock slides down the hill, …
Posted in 03: NEXT WAVE
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