- 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
Kevin Gillam
fiction is necessary
but, upside down in the dark, all the lyrics have fallen to the bottom of the box. turned, back to the dark ocean, the strange wet lap of the beach, and, as I risk vertigo, riding a warm updraft to …
Posted in 96: NO THEME IX
Tagged Kevin Gillam
chamber musings
(i) 43 days all on foot, drug ripe and addled, Tramadols and Endones puppeting mice in the peripherals, trekking lanes and limestone, withered grapes atop walls, to the West sky smeared peach, on the demolition site pink ribbons around the …
Posted in 92: NO THEME VIII
Tagged Kevin Gillam
lost art of pastels
you are invited to fish, cast a mind out for hope in five oceans, from one lush island just a hook, a line, one sinker, trawling through sly workings of turquoise and dream, you, invited, fishing under talc light from …
Posted in 82: LAND
Tagged Kevin Gillam
The Road
the road scars right, across the palm of land, tumbling, dwindling, a groove, a history, a way in, worn and healed slick the road, oil on linen, bitumen on peat, with all its gradations of shadow, bruise to smear to …
Posted in 79: EKPHRASTIC
Tagged Kevin Gillam
Cycles and Lines
sea breathing. started pulling in. staves loose on their tether. for those in berets, those in caps. to clap first. bruising chords. flute against the wall. moon up there, half a minim. chill of too few. entire sea. nine is …
Posted in 77: EXPLODE
Tagged Kevin Gillam
Propped
in the dia ry of clean be ginnings. gift of ponder? you make an entry. plas tic beneath sheet. listen to that a line about clouds. absent but near? dialect of cirrus. night nurse moth. how light goes sepi a …
Posted in 59: GONDWANALAND
Tagged Kevin Gillam
Dialect of Cirrus
a measure of the dead. suppose I should explain. hours spent sift- ing the light, no al- readys to drown. ‘a bagpipe sings for two – first for etch and shad- ow, second, the drone, in the dialect of cirrus, …
Posted in 50: JACKPOT!
Tagged Kevin Gillam
learnts
number of sips equals number of tastes cirrus is a smeared, silent language smother hides mother holds other more salve in horizons than creeds thinks spin but a moon librates we’re ants in the blind search for sweetness monks can …
Posted in 46: ELECTRONICA
Tagged Kevin Gillam
Watermelon
I’m about to bite into a slice when you’re there with juice dribbling down your chin and picking pips out with your fingers while I just eat and spit and we grin all wet but there is no we ‘cos …
Posted in 06: NEW POETRY
Tagged Kevin Gillam
Quarantine
cocooned, arthritic bunk soft as chipboard. breathing in cruel air. like a moth, caught between curtain and addiction. tossing. how many lurgies have starved here? walls too thick with undercoat to talk. voices muzzy. welcoming the slow syringe of sleep …
Posted in 06: NEW POETRY
Tagged Kevin Gillam
