- 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
Lachlan Brown
Winter Meditation on Autumn Meditation (1)
After Du Fu Shopper drops jade bracelet, then collapses in shock. When I get to level 47 the air is almost breathable. A cold wind blows beyond the river of ancestors, past the cars in the lobby of the Marriott …
Posted in 107: LIMINAL
Tagged Lachlan Brown
Walking in Isolation (III)
what plinth-moment is this, allowing the display of bark: twisted, straight, or notched with achievements? a swing- set attaches pathways to opportunities, weaving shadow- lines into an iron crown. & the real presence logs in each morning by walking poems …
Posted in 103: AMBLE
Tagged Lachlan Brown
Introduction to Marjon Mossammaparast’s That Sight
Photo by Gen Ackland. BUY YOUR COPY HERE Marjon Mossammaparast’s That Sight offers us a wide-ranging series of viewpoints, taking the reader through various locations and histories. It zooms out to cosmological heights, and even beyond to God (or the …
Posted in INTRODUCTIONS
Tagged Lachlan Brown, Marjon Mossammaparast, Zoë Sadokierski
Summer Meditation on Autumn Meditation (3)
after Du Fu Thousands of apartments honeycomb these towers, lit by angled sunlight and increasing valuations. I sit on the hill of our GDP. In the harbour the fishing boats return from exhausted seas, floating in bewilderment. China Southern expands …
Posted in 86: NO THEME VII
Tagged Lachlan Brown
SUBURBIA Editorial
Suburbia is often perceived to be artistically peripheral and yet it is also entrenched as the focal point of Australian cultural hegemony. After all, Australia has been the most suburban nation on earth since the late nineteenth century.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Lachlan Brown, Nathanael O'Reilly
Submission to Cordite 84: SUBURBIA
Send us your latest and greatest poems about the suburbs, the immense variety of life therein, and whether your suburban experience is inner, outer, middle-belt, beachside, exclusive, inclusive, multicultural, bogan, hipster or something else together.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, Lachlan Brown, Nathanael O'Reilly
Second Launch
Now, even from this distance, you notice too many espresso cups scattered across the axes of your life. That is why bits of unmatched self get shattered and overlayed in places like this. You try to count the connections, café …
Posted in 79: EKPHRASTIC
Tagged Lachlan Brown
Aletheia
And when you find an entire cigarette on the ground* but you’ve never smoked anything, it seems like there’s a wide universe offering you lung-cancered perfection, no longer content with your ease of breath. Wander the streets on any council …
Posted in 78: CONFESSION
Tagged Lachlan Brown
Creative Vacancy
You jump at chancy Snapchat possibilities, your suitcase eyes looking better beneath the third filter. You’re sitting here with technology’s slouch, sinking further into the selfworld imagining a terrifying flightpath from London to Kuala Lumpur to anywhere really. ‘Be yourself, …
Posted in 77: EXPLODE
Tagged Lachlan Brown
What We (non)Believe: Reading Poems by Charles Wright, John Burnside, and Kevin Hart
Imagine that three poems are delivered to your door. They come without note, explanation or sending address.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Charles Wright, John Burnside, Kevin Hart, Lachlan Brown
Is This
high end fascism or bomb blast nostalgia at the season’s shoulder each day an analogue of the one that came before it as though we could somehow avoid spring’s litigious blue skies or those evening stars like talk show applause …
Posted in 64: CONSTRAINT
Tagged Lachlan Brown
Well Tempered
Prelude: Instructions for Travel When facing a veritable quandary insert hormone pellets Gather the mob at the bicycle assembly point Wish for a book at Powell’s locate fancy beasts, a mosquito cry hallelujah! then blackout Imagine noir script starring woman …
Posted in 63: COLLABORATION
Tagged Lachlan Brown, Nathanael O'Reilly
