- 118: PRECARIOUSwith A Jackson 117: NO THEME 14with A Creece 116: REMEMBERwith M Sahhar and A Te Whiu 115: SPACEwith A Sometimes 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
Lesh Karan
Self-Portrait as Misfired Sound
Hindi’s characters hang off the shirorekha like low clouds. The promise of rain: how I feel, my language level a seven-year-old’s. I have a chart, like one for learning English— a for apple, b for ball—but unlike it, my ma-bhasha …
Posted in 117: NO THEME 14
Tagged Lesh Karan
My Mother’s Kitchen
/Ingredients/ sunlight, a generous splash the gentle simmer of bhajans vegetables, greenhoused in Melbourne an ancestral pantry, pulsing with pulses, nuts, aata and sundry the (e)motions of mortar-and-pestles the sturdiness of a tawa extended-family-sized pots, multiple her pista barfi, un-substitutable …
Posted in 112: TREAT
Tagged Lesh Karan
Perspective
Some days are metal I see my face reflected – cracks in the steel I write to rupture I feel layered until I read me – I am flat and abstract not cut onions dripping milk – I use the …
Posted in 106: OPEN
Tagged Lesh Karan
Vermeer as Performance
after Yoko Ono’s ‘Kite Piece 1’ 1. Earring Piece Sketch the ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’. Snip it into pearl-shaped pieces – as many as the original’s value. Wear a cut-out on your left earlobe (tack it on with a …
Posted in 103: AMBLE
Tagged Lesh Karan
Year 2329: History Test
1. Respond to: In the 19th century, womankind had threadbare hands. Response: True. With no power, women’s hands toiled. They laboured on any of the following: a) hand washing + scrubbing b) hand sweeping + mopping c) hand cooking + …
Posted in 101: NO THEME 10
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Chasey
It’s 28 April 2020 and my husband shows me a video of his cousin growling from the pit of his lungs at his two-year-old son: You’re arrested for being brown. The son runs, a question mark for a face. You’re …
Posted in 100: BROWNFACE
Tagged Lesh Karan
The landscape changes
we are not lovers, now climbing a jagged mountain on weak joints can one avoid twisted pain? making an effort widens fault lines climbing a jagged mountain on weak joints I crack when not seen making an effort widens fault …
Posted in 92: NO THEME VIII
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