- 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
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
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