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Wandering through the Universal Archive

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Fiona Hile

One of the sequences produced by the collaborative entity, A Constructed World, renders the phrases ‘No need to be great’ and ‘Stay in Groups’ in a range of media – silk-stitch, screen print, photography and painting. One of the painted versions of the image shows a naked woman covered in yellow post-it notes overseen by a hulking, shadowy male. These figures represent the artists Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe. The image appears again in the form of a photograph and the installation was staged in various places around the world – as if the only way to get the message across would be to subject it to constant repetition in as many different formats as possible. Indeed, a number of the collective’s performances and installations attest to the impossibility of communication – even as these take the form of images that can’t fail to deliver. Avant Spectacle A Micro Medicine Show, 2011, features skeleton-costumed performers inexpertly singing and playing instruments while six knee-high wooden letters – S, P, E, E, C and H – burn like small condemned buildings at front of stage.

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged Amaranth Borsuk, Astrid Lorange, Brad Bouse, Charles Bernstein, Eddie Hopely, Fiona Hile, Jessica L. Wilkinson, John Jenkins, John Kinsella, Justin Clemens, Kate Middleton, ken bolton, Louis Armand, Maged Zaher, Marty Hiatt, michael farrell, nick whittock, Oscar Schwartz, Pam Brown, Patrick Jones, Richard Tuttle, Sam Langer, Tim Wright, Timothy Yu, Toby Fitch | 1 Comment

NZ 6-Seater: A Chapbook Curated by Ian Wedde

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Ian Wedde

Contents: Floating Ribs by Selina Tusitala Marsh Flood Monologue by Anne Kennedy experiments (our life together) by Michele Leggott Conversation with My Uncle by Murray Edmond from ‘High Lonesome by John Newton I Spilled My Story by Sam Sampson Invited …

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged Anne Kennedy, Ian Wedde, John Newton, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond, Sam Sampson, Selina Tusitala Marsh | Leave a comment

The Lee Marvin Readings: An Evening with Edmund Gwenn

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Ken Bolton

The Lee Marvin Readings has run, off and on, since the 1990s. Its venue has changed a number of times – from Adelaide nightclubs like Supermild, to the Iris Cinema, to the charmingly Zurich-1917, bo-ho De La Catessan and the more robustly hard-drinking and confrontational Dark Horsey bookshop at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, where it now takes place. The sessions have been organised, run, staffed and emceed by poet and art critic Ken Bolton.

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged Cath Kenneally, Doug Mason, Ella O'Keefe, Jill Jones, Kelli Rowe, ken bolton, Laurie Duggan, Pam Brown, Shannon Burns, Steve Brock, Tim Wright | 1 Comment

The Centre Cannot Hold: Six Contemporary Filipino Poets

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Stuart Cooke

If for the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of Filipinos living in Australia wasn’t reason enough to take an interest in Filipino poetry, the fact that Filipino poetry shares a tremendous amount in common with Australian poetry should. Those fissures that have dominated so much of the past half-century of Australian poetry – between ‘the tradition’ and ‘the postmodern’, between an indigenous or nationalist poetry and a poetry that stretches to North America and elsewhere, between poetry that centres on the nation’s landscapes and poetry that sees in its cities and other locations a manifestation of global and/or North American trends – are quite central to poetry in the Philippines, too.

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged Conchitina Cruz, Francisco Guevara, Mabi David, Marc Gaba, Marjorie Evasco, Ricardo M. de Ungria, Stuart Cooke, Ynna Abuan | 2 Comments

Falling Angels: A Chapbook Curated by Anna Couani

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Anna Couani

In curating this collection, I asked the writers to provide pieces that are short, edgy, and I’m happy that they have fulfilled that very loose brief. The disrupted texts they’ve produced – whilst having interesting formal qualities – also have poignant emotive qualities. The term I use for what others refer to as prose-poetry is experimental prose because I find that term broader and more inclusive. I asked several visual artists to suggest works that I could take or requested particular works I had already seen.

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged Anna Couani, Antigone Kefala, Carol Archer, Debby Sou Vai Keng, Hilik Mirankar, Jane Skelton, Kit Kelen, Les Wicks, Song Zijiang, Suzanne Bellamy, Virginia Shepherd, Yota Krili | Leave a comment

The Mundiad Book V

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Justin Clemens

The Argument: Having found ourselves unable to fulfill the promises pretentiously pronounced in The Argument of Book the Fourth of The Mundiad, we return once more unto the aforesaid breach of promise in order to essay its repair, an essay …

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Sound, Rhythm and Meaning: A Pacific Northwest Chapbook Curated by David Wagoner

Posted on March 22, 2012 by David Wagoner

Featuring poetry by Lillo Way, Jacqueline Haskins, Jeremiah O’Hagan, Marie Hartung, Robert Hoffman, Leone Mikele and David Wagoner. American poetry has never been more diverse in form, content, and intention than it is today. All imaginable styles and mannerisms are …

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged American poetry, David Wagoner, Jacqueline Haskins, Jeremiah O'Hagan, Leone Mikele, Lillo Way, Marie Hartung, Robert Hoffman | 1 Comment