31.0: EPIC

Poetry Editor Ali Alizadeh
Released 1 December 2009
Index of Poems
Cover image: Eddy Burger

Our thirty-first issue was suitably gigantic, with poetry editor Ali Alizadeh selecting a wide range of epic works. Read his editorial, then check out the craziness of the sequel, POST-EPIC.




epic

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Michael Farrell

not to mention harpur his prophetic dream of lawson exhuming

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The Williad

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers

Sing to me of the woman, plaintive Muse,

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Realism. Four Preludes

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Louis Armand

1. sleepless thirty days:

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Rumpelstiltskin Cycle

Posted on December 1, 2009 by S. K. Kelen

The smoke cleared, crawling

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Millennium Lite Redux

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Liam Ferney

the diary is a newstart fraud de art

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Boobs Are So Random

Posted on December 1, 2009 by w.m.lewis

Man walks into bar.

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Reading the Mahābhārata

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Michelle Cahill

Once in a ruptured past before mutiny or Midnight's Children,

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Telemachus Remembers His Father

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Bill Rush

Single-parented most of the time, it's a wonder

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Run for a Safe Climate

Posted on December 1, 2009 by jeltje

Run! Run! Run run run run! For a safe climate!

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After Medusa, Newtown

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Fiona Wright

The scissors hissed.

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The Post-Man Letters: An Evolutionary Epic

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Peter Lach-Newinsky

One heatwave day he throws me a sack/marked RetSenAdUn…

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The Search

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Anne Hollier Ruddy

And you were that paradox,

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Visiting Toledo

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Sheryl Persson

Napoleon's plunder

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The Desert Homeric

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Sally Ann McIntyre

in arid cities we have read as syntax flooded streets,

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Passage Through a Daemon

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Sue Stanford

where does she stop

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