40.0Interlocutor
Melanie Scaife | Luminosity Study | 2011Poetry Editorial: Libby Hart
Essays: John Mateer on Nativism and Juan Garrido-Salgado on exile
Interviews: Oscar Schwartz drinks with Del Ray Cross and Graham Nunn records angela rawlings
Features: Geoff Page on jazz poetry, Stuart Cooke curates a chapbook of contemporary Filipino poetry and Chris Funkhouser & Sonny Rae Tempest machine translate this issue’s cover image
Featured Artists: Melanie Scaife and James Bonnici
Translations: Luke Fischer and Lutz Nafelt revisit Rilke, Jacques Rancourt translates Alex Skovron and Lionel Fogarty and Juan Garrido-Salgado have a bilingual conversation with poems
Recordings: Chris Mann uncorks, Annea Lockwood spooks and Stu Hatton chimesPlus further interlocutions: Helen Lambert (a chorus), Bruce Dawe (a bargain), Bev Braune (a game), John Hawke (a regret), Nathanael O’Reilly (an ignorance), Anna Jackson (a conversation), Ken Smeaton (a war), Chris Wallace-Crabbe (an age), Mark Young (a warning), Glen Phillips (a death), Ian Wedde (an isolation) and Jordie Albiston (a legend)
And 43 new poems selected by Libby Hart: David Adès, Michelle Allan, Ivy Alvarez, Amanda Anastasi, E. Kristin Anderson, Allison Bishop, Mary Bamburg, Mary Branley, Broede Carmody, Anne M Carson, Josephine Clarke, Emilie Collyer, Heather Davidson, Salvatore Difalco, Andrew Elsequence, John Grey, Kristin Hannaford, Andy Jackson, Lisa Jacobson, Heather Taylor Johnson, Nick D’Annunzio Jones, David Kelly, Ellen Kombiyil, Shari Kocher, Jo Langdon, Justin Lowe, Eleanor Lamb, Jennifer Liston, Rachael Mead, Kate Middleton, Paul Mitchell, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Jo Morris, Philip Neilsen, Jal Nicholl, Mark O’Flynn, Meredi Ortega, Lynne Potts, Jessica Raschke, Kristen Roberts, Tracy Ryan, Eric Paul Shaffer, Paul Summers and Ben Walter.
Special issue 39.1: Gibberbird
‘Gibberbird: Of Birds and Other Strings’ is a poetic conversation between a source poem by Canadian poet angela rawlings and ten poems by other authors found from within its lines. It’s a refraction of language and image through poetic prisms, an intersection of the familiar and unfamiliar, blurring the edges through the 11 authors’ interpretations.
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