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Jessica Alice

Jessica Alice is a poet, critic and broadcaster from Melbourne living in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the Director of Writers SA, the peak organisation for writing and literature in the state. Jessica was formerly Poetry Editor of Scum Mag and Poetry & Short Prose Editor of The Lifted Brow. Her writing and reviews are published in The Guardian Australia, Metro Magazine, Overland, VICE, TLB, Cordite Poetry Review and Australian Poetry Journal, among others.

I have gone to extraordinary lengths

in the pursuit of—. [Whatever that means for you]. Like with most things, I have gone further than really necessary—a trait picked up in child- hood carried through many executions. Am I happy with that? Hey, no one expects an …

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Olympic Bingo

God is always twenty-five and I am still alive— I didn’t die in the taxi, or in the apartment, or at the beach that night where my hunger tore me out on a silent black rip to sink like a …

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Review Short: Susan Hawthorne’s Lupa and Lamb

Lupa and Lamb is a beast of a collection – it spans literally all of time and features every woman that has ever lived. Ambitious is not too strong a word. Curatrix, our guide and commentator, leads us through archives of lost women’s texts on the way to a party held by the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla. It is through this trail that Lupa and Lamb tells women’s histories and their multiple, often contradictory roles in family and society.

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Review Short: Julie Chevalier’s Darger: his girls

Henry Darger’s reputation as an outsider artist – and the questions of morality lingering around his dark paintings – has inspired recent exhibitions, books, plays and a documentary. Julie Chevalier’s poetic biography Darger: his girls (subtitled a sequence of poems about the life of Henry Darger 1892 – 1973) has come at peak-Darger fever. Chevalier includes an introduction, familiarising us with the debate about what kind of man Henry Darger really was: child murderer, or misunderstood loner? The latter explanation is explored throughout this work.

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Used Cars

[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/07 Used Cars.mp3|titles=Used Cars – Jessica Alice] Used Cars (2:01) Written and produced by Jessica Alice

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Jessica Alice Reviews Robyn Rowland

Striving to decipher the vast desolation of silence is – as Robyn Rowland has us so emphatically experience – a 'difficult' journey, to say the least. Her latest collection of poems, Silence & its tongues, expresses this not only as a 'cold' language, but also an elusive one; varied in the boundless possibilities of voice, tone and dialect.

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