CONTRIBUTORS

Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez

About Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006). Her poems feature in anthologies, journals and new media in many countries, including Best Australian Poems 2009, and have been translated into Russian, Spanish and Japanese. The recipient of several awards, prizes and residencies, she has received funding towards the writing of her second book of poems from the Australia Council of the Arts.

She is now in Cardiff, Wales, having previously lived in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland.



Ivy Alvarez: That second heart

Ivy Alvarez was formerly reviews editor of Cordite.

Posted in 22: EDITORIAL INTERVENTION | Tagged | Comments Off

Ivy Alvarez: Domestic Enemy

We have no idea what inspired Ivy to wander down a dark alley to photograph this set of rubbish bins but we love it!

Posted in IMAGES | Tagged | Comments Off

Ivy Alvarez Interviews Nick Carbó

Nick Carbó is the author of three books of poetry, El Grupo McDonald's (1995), Secret Asian Man (2000), and Andalusian Dawn (2004), and the editor of three anthologies of Filipino and Filipino-American literature, Returning a Borrowed Tongue (1995), Babaylan (2000), …

Posted in INTERVIEWS | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Ivy Alvarez Interviews Denise Duhamel

The first time I met Nick Carbó and Denise Duhamel was, by chance, in a setting appropriately domestic: the laundrette. I left them to their spin cycle and drip dry, but not before arranging to interview them (separately) in their …

Posted in INTERVIEWS | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Postcard from Cardiff

I sought it here, I sought it there, I sought it everywhere. It is a sad, but true fact. There are no visible Internet cafes in Cardiff. So when I finally discovered a few terminals at Maccas in the Queen Street mall area, it was a dubious turn of events.

Posted in FEATURES | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Roots: Image by Ivy Alvarez

Posted in IMAGES | Tagged | Comments Off

Ivy Alvarez: Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson is science fiction Pauline Hanson is correct Pauline Hanson is science fiction by Ian Woolf Pauline Hanson is wrong Pauline Hanson is a warning that the betrayals by the old organisations of the working class Pauline Hanson is …

Posted in 16: SEARCH | Tagged | Comments Off

Ivy Alvarez: Catalogue: Life as Tableware

accessorise with simple, elegant shapes choose muted bones, the subtle variations of sin harvested from the last century the alluring sparkle of toenails and teeth and the reflective qualities of glazed eyes mix well with hair shorn from a passive …

Posted in 09: MUSIC | Tagged | Comments Off