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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
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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
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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
Julie Maclean
Willesden Nocturne for a Retired Nurse
When you open your midnight door fishing for sound you hear the scrape of a snail the frame fills with the head of a fox your eyes meet Do you then plant a stethoscope on the throat of a …
Posted in 84: SUBURBIA
Tagged Julie Maclean
Titicaca as Tourist Conversion
Gas and dust not algorithms explain the birth of a sun not water in rectangular channels of a dead metropolis not stories irrigated by breasts of a thousand goddesses the sacrifice of lama tired stones all that hoo-ha But however …
Posted in 83: MATHEMATICS
Tagged Julie Maclean
Landscape / Portrait Dilemma in Taking a Selfie
after John R Neeson—River Bend Installation To create an algorithm that measures beauty—compose, illuminate, expose or fill the birdbath for firetails descending when heat goes out of the sun Use human annotations to classify emotional polarity of each image or …
Posted in 82: LAND
Tagged Julie Maclean
Where Fassbinder Hangs His Albatross
Considering Martha (1974), Maria Braun (1979), Lili Marleen (1981), Veronika, Lola, Petra and all. summary she posts secrets to an address in another hemisphere fräulein pins secrets all over her lumberjack shirt she covers her nakedness with secrets stuffs secrets …
Posted in 78: CONFESSION
Tagged Julie Maclean
Omniglot
after Mica Still if these walls could talk they would say I like pink & fleshly themes hares with x-rated heads lobes suspended in amniotic fluid ears flat back in fear and thrill a passing prefect or someone on yard …
Posted in 77: EXPLODE
Tagged Julie Maclean
Emily Dickinson as an Octopus with a Pre-Death Plan
I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see? — Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground I From the high-care low-life facility where my head lolls in the briny bowl Doctor Death asks what my …
Posted in 74: NO THEME V
Tagged Julie Maclean
Review Short: Jennifer Compton’s Now You Shall Know
Jennifer Compton’s ear and predilection for the colloquial is one of the threads linking the poems in this latest collection of apparently autobiographical works. Poems further cohere around irony, sometimes translating as humour.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Jennifer Compton, Julie Maclean
Fed Square Spots Romantic Three Storeys Up
Don’t think I can’t see you thumbing your nose at my reputation Lady-of-the-Tennyson poem You should know I am here trumping Gas and Fuel ugly Lame water feature, flat screen no one loved Volcanoes of bluestone have given me up …
Posted in 62: MELBOURNE
Tagged Julie Maclean
Dakota
The first time I saw the building was from the hop-on hop-off bus glimpsing Strawberry Fields as we headed for 9/11 & the Soup Nazi I looked for Yoko with a shopping bag and was disappointed This time I walked …
Posted in 61: NO THEME III
Tagged Julie Maclean
Mr. Eno, A Brief for You
Can you do 6 seconds of inspiration, optimism, futurism that is sentimental and emotional? Sincerely Bill (Microsoft) Sure! Blah-blah Da-da-da Brian PS 3.5 seconds okay?
Posted in 50: JACKPOT!
Tagged Julie Maclean
