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Search Results for: when the wind stopped
Two Meditations on the Ecology
1. Siple Dome After three years of drilling, we reached bedrock, two-thirds of a mile under the humpbacked bulge of winter. Each season, six fresh inches of ice put us closer to Jesus on one side, machinery to whatever else …
Posted in 95: EARTH
Tagged John Hoppenthaler
apology
is the summer after my spleen almost ruptured into the stain of a thousand sunsets. i am sitting in a therapist’s office, and she asks me to start at the moment i wanted to die from my own hands. i …
Posted in 94: BAYT
Tagged George Abraham
Circus Poem
a brothel run out of an apartment (high-rise on Eglington those places were asking to be busted, basically, the neighbours don’t like it); I only worked there a few shifts, later I saw it in the paper but for some …
Posted in 93: PEACH
Tagged Rose Hunter
Margaret Bradstock Reviews Phyllis Perlstone’s The Bruise of Knowing
The Bruise of Knowing is Phyllis Perlstone’s third collection of poetry from Puncher & Wattmann, and arguably her best to date. It tells the story of Sir John Monash, highlighting themes of ambition, power and warfare.
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Tagged Margaret Bradstock, Phyllis Perlstone
Shipwrecks in Modern European Painting and Poetry: Radical Mobilisation of the Motif as Political Protest
Shipwreck is also the synecdoche of all that shadows imperial expansion – navigational misadventure, piracy, cyclonic assault – tracking like sharks on the blood trail imperialism’s would-be glamorous advance.
4 Self-translations by Danijela Trajković
Passionfruit Honey I did not look for you on any road the roads grew tired of us so quickly anyway in the meadows where we ran there are no birds anymore I did not look for you at the village …
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Danijela Trajković
All The Things I Kept
1. Grief is the feeling you have the process you pass through like a tunnel but more physiological / a response to losing some thing / some one you once loved. So when they call to tell me you are …
Posted in 91: MONSTER
Tagged Nike Sulway
‘The Rally Is Calling’: Dashiell Moore Interviews Lionel Fogarty
The poetry of Yoogum and Kudjela man, Lionel Fogarty, may be hard to follow, often distorting colloquial phrases or standardised grammar to retool the colonising English language into a form of resistance.
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Dashiell Moore, Lionel Fogarty
Translated Extracts from Chantal Danjou
Rehabilitation of the Inferno If Yellow (Extracts) an odour of cut grass she who walks falters land of deceiving linearity like creases in a pillow black and white slumber one foot in a dream the other harried bust opening its …
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Chantal Danjou, Dominique Hecq
because
because of the Cultural Revolution because of the Sino-Japanese war because of the marriage of convenience because of the CCP because of the KMT because of the industrial boom because of the Asian financial crisis because he took pills to …
Posted in 89: DOMESTIC
Tagged Ling Toong
from Conglomerates
Myself I saw the first tender shoots of Gehry thumbnails planted two-and-a-half blocks from the beach, Sydney Eastern Standard Time. That good ideas pitch us forward is a mid-week provocation. This good idea makes the same old view newly visible, …
Posted in 87: DIFFICULT
Tagged Emily Stewart
Re-visiting Chernobyl
1. Liquidation1 The earth has always been so accommodating, enfolding all kinds of calamities: the meteoric end of dinosaurs, the Neanderthals and other botched experiments, the debris of bronze and iron ages, modern battlegrounds . . . And there is …
Posted in 86: NO THEME VII
Tagged Maria Takolander
Children of Homeland
I. In their bamboo huts, where bullets Could trace them, they tried to hide Behind their mothers’ bodies as if They could be infants in wombs again. Their mothers’ pleas the only shield, “Tama na! Mga sibilyan lang mi!” But …
Posted in 85: PHILIPPINES
Tagged Mohammad Nassefh Macla
Dominique Hecq Reviews Melinda Smith and Caren Florance
Seeking to cast light on Melinda Smith’s Goodbye, Cruel alongside her collabo-rative work with Caren Florance titled Members Only is like approaching a hive of fully-formed poems.
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Tagged Caren Florance, Dominique Hecq, Melinda Smith
The 2018 Event Horizon of Micro Press Poetry Publishing in Australia
I begin with cosmic censorship conjecture, a formally observed tête-à-tête that coils between astrophysicists whenever they get worked up over space and matter. Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts that matter can cataclysmically implode to a state where a given density and the space-time curvature split towards infinite values.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Kent MacCarter
Binding
Today it is raining and I am glad for this falling down house that still keeps the wet out. I write in pyjamas. I write with a mosquito bite on the arch of my left foot. I write with a …
Posted in QUEERING MODES
Tagged Quinn Eades
The everywhere anywhere
It’s about a bath in an old factory beside a marina on the outskirts of the everywhere anywhere. It’s about a concrete underpass and the torque of a small engine. It’s about the right eye and a radical-pair reunion. Electromagnetic …
Posted in 83: MATHEMATICS
Tagged Gareth Jenkins
Concrete: A Shikoku Pilgrimage
A long day of road walking out of Tokushima. Twenty-five, twenty-six kilometres including five hundred metres of gravel before and after Temple 18. Rosie and I left the hotel at about 7:15am and walked along one of the main arterial roads.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged J.P. Quinton
3 Translated Takako Arai Poems
Takako Arai (1966 —) was born into a silk-weaving family in Kiryū city, Gunma Prefecture, on the outskirts of Tokyo. She began publishing poems in the early 1990s, and since 1998 has run a poetry magazine, Mi’Te, which features poems, translations and poetry criticism. Her second poetry collection, Tamashii Dansu (Soul Dance) was published in 2007, and received the Oguma Hideo Poetry Prize.
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Jen Crawford, Rina Kikuchi, Takako Arai
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I had promised myself that I will never write about shisha, ever again. The topic itself is as disgusting as is knuckles press down onto counter hips between stovetop & a stack of ceramic my soles lift as his hand …
Posted in AP EWF 2017
Tagged Saaro Umar
Dissecting the Apocalypse: Jorie Graham’s Sea Change
I will first attempt to develop one possible reading of ‘On the Concept of History’, taking for granted that any such reading exists alongside – and may even contradict – other more familiar interpretations. The second part of the article will follow this line of thinking in approaching Jorie Graham’s Sea Change, a collection of poetry that explores the catastrophic possibilities of global warming.
Thirty-Six Views of the Parallax: Mark Young’s the eclectic world, Bandicoot habitat and lithic typology
The first thing to note is that the body of a typical Mark Young poem often bears no relationship to the title. Do not be alarmed: this is a postmodernist conceit, and Young is thoroughly postmodernist, although he would eschew such a label.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Javant Biarujia, Mark Young
Liam Ferney Reviews Cassie Lewis
Based on the poems in The Blue Decodes, Lewis is an artist who values silence as much as noise. The book’s ninety pages, which include a number of poems published in her chapbooks, represent well over two decades’ worth of work which provides an interesting purchase on the question of why write poetry in the first place, particularly if it seems like an adjunct to an already full life?
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Tagged Cassie Lewis, liam ferney