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Moving Statue

successful poetry
began
with the Star of David

his caricature stood
in the middle
of a fountainhead,
darting
between shadows
and flickers of saints,

stitching sinners
into dishonest possessions

Patches of light would
perambulate the fringes
of stealth and supposition

No one knows quite how many
bare-chested men
have been dismissed
in lieu
of pragmatic identification

They are there somewhere,
dancing among
short-term bravery,
casting
glances at sideways origin

mama wiped a clean gash
The faces
of her ghost-pale sons
idling between
bundles of frightened daughters

[snickering bookstore]

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Bedside manner

He slipped through the curtains
on a Friday night, and pulled them tight
behind him. Immediately familiar,
he peeled back the sheet and slid his hands
into her prickly armpits, rested his head on her back,
pressed her belly, tucked a stethoscope
under the cotton smock, lifted her bra
to get close to her heart.

You don't have any rebound tenderness,
he said, and you're not guarding,
but you've had nothing to eat,
you must be so hungry. And as his warm hands
went here and there, he told her of eating rock oysters
alone at a Sydney restaurant, a whole plate
all to himself.

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Seamus Barker Reviews Kate Middleton

Fire Season: New Poems by Kate Middleton
Giramondo Publishing, 2009

Fire Season is Kate Middleton's first book of poetry, after numerous publications in journals and newspapers in Australia, England and the US. Middleton has trained as a librettist, and we see a classical influence permeating this book, with narrative voices discovered for literary figures from Penelope, to Leda, Desdemona, and even the Minotaur's previously undiscovered, equally bullish, sister. Middleton's technique of inhabiting specifically located moments of time and place extends from classical to popular culture, including poems written 'with' Lauren Bacall, Lana Turner, and Judy Garland.

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Liam Ferney Reviews Tim Thorne

I Con: New and Selected Poems by Tim Thorne
Salt Publishing, 2008

History is a con. Every second year undergrad haunting a uni bar knows that. Understanding history is not who did what to whom when, it is how the narrative reflects on the teller and the audience. I Con: New and Selected Poems, the justly deserved retrospective of Tasmania poet Tim Thorne published in a beautiful hard cover edition by Salt, works its playful magic in the fluid space between fact and myth.

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Ali Alizadeh Reviews Bronwyn Lea and Kevin Hart

The Other Way Out by Bronwyn Lea
Giramondo Publishing, 2008

Young Rain by Kevin Hart
Giramondo Publishing, 2008

One of the most prominent features of these two recent titles – by two of Australia's most successful poets, published by one of the country's most exciting literary publishers – is their emphasis on the erotic. By engaging with unambiguously sexual themes and imagery, Bronwyn Lea and Kevin Hart have produced texts that beguile and entertain their reader through the evocation of, or a yearning for, romance and sensuality, whilst also running the risk of reducing allusion and openness in meaning by describing a definite, rather familiar, concept.

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"Haikunaut Island Renga"

flub-a-dub in the purple west helicopter
(David G. Lanoue)
a bald eagle atop the sharp left turn sign
(Naia)
a woman knits flowers on a soldier's grave
(Lawrence)
her second husband wears red-framed glasses
(SAT??Æ Ayaka)
apple sack and a library book about gravity
(Deborah P Kolodji)
eternal doldrums on the Sea of Tranquility
(josh wikoff)
in no time a lonely cricket calls the tune
(Vasile Moldovan)
Don Marquis' archy cocks a snook at humans
(Kathy Earsman)
small business the pub owner strokes a huge belly
(Origa)
her best rose-covered cup dulled by dust
(Sandra Simpson)
all night the humpbacks speak of love
(josh wikoff)
a water lily opens in Kakadu
(Anne Elvey)
my hand on the rock no space for a shadow
(Sandra Simpson)
da Vinci knows of these things light shade and objects
(Rhonda Poholke)
by the window who sits stitching pearls onto silk?
(Genevieve Osborne)
in poverty's grip identity folds
(Michael Roper)
cherry blossom drift- here comes the poet with his hippopotamus
(Lorin Ford)
listening to Pink Floyd still on the hit list
(Barbara A Taylor)
children laugh unafraid of the past in the summer grass
(Keiji Minato)
a ladybug of leisure wanders upside-down
(Fleur)
on a city tram opening to Han Shan's distances
(Lorin Ford)
cold mountain range plays hidden music
(Joseph Mueller)
hunting truffles the sow cannot help herself
(Ashley Capes)
the streets are empty now rumble of a tank
(Greg Rochlin)
after the lightning strike a ti-tree blooms in halves
(Rhonda Poholke)
a divorced mother bungee jumps
(Aldia)
tattooed on the back of her neck a howling Jesus
(David G. Lanoue)
a cardboard alphabet tacked to backyard trees
(Joseph Mueller)
our renga booklet- the wind turns leaf after leaf and the moon reads it
(Vasile Moldovan)
the players rehearse on Prospero's isle
(Lorin Ford)
after midnight it all goes topsy-turvy
(Genevieve Osborne)
youtube koalas munch on pixel gum leaves
(David Prater)
cross-species kindness - a fireman offers his water bottle
(Anne Elvey)
morning meditation a crow disrupts my shadow
(Graham Nunn)
garden lilac unfurling at the tempo of its fragrance
(Origa)
our postman arrives - pitter-patter tin drum
(Michael Roper)

This is the final result of Cordite's experiment in interactive renga, with Keiji Minato acting as renga master. To see how this renga came into being, check out the 1024 comments on Haikunaut Island Renga 1 and Haikunaut Island Renga 2. Haikunauts are go!

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Adam Ford Reviews Joel Deane

Magisterium by Joel Deane
Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008

Magisterium is the second collection by Joel Deane, following on from his debut collection Subterranean Radio Songs and his debut novel Another. In an interview with Paul Mitchell published in Cordite in 2006, when asked about the interplay between his work as speechwriter for the Premier of Victoria and his other life as a poet, Deane cited American poet Eleanor Wilner, who said of poets that, 'We need to take back the rhetorical high ground from the politicians who degrade it'. Deane went on express the hope that the poems contained in his next book might approach 'the kind of apocalyptic public language' hinted at by Wilner. Such ambitions can sound a little lofty, but Magisterium would seem to be a successful achievement of that goal.

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Alice Allan Reviews Ten Years of Things That Didn’t Kill Us

Ten Years of Things That Didn't Kill Us edited by Daniel Watson et al
Paroxysm Press, 2008

When Paroxysm Press sent out their call for submissions in March last year for an anthology titled Ten Years of Things That Didn't Kill Us, they had just one piece of advice for writers: 'we want it to be as Paroxysm as hell'. The result – a collection of poetry and prose from writers well-known to Paroxysm followers along with a number of new contributors – isn't intended to please everyone. This is a challenging collection of stinging truths and shocking moments, along with occasional touches of beauty.

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Angela Costi Reviews Poetry Without Borders

Poetry Without Borders edited by Michelle Cahill
Picaro Press, 2008

There is a deep sigh of relief when we come across Poetry Without Borders, an anthology willing to cross unknown terrain to bring us the voices of poets rarely heard. Whether it's due to language, cultural, economic or psychological factors, those poets who have migrated or are considered to be 'new arrivals' are hardly published. Though quite a few of these poets are established and held in high esteem in their countries of origin, they are considered to be voices of the periphery in Australia or, at best, 'emerging' voices.

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Tim Wright Reviews Nicholas Manning

Novaless I-XXVI by Nicholas Manning
Achiote Press, 2007

These words came to mind when I tried to list the main concerns of this twenty-six poem sequence: light, love, perception and apperception, rapture, thought, things, stars, source, memory. The poems in Novaless I-XXVI are highly sensual, their strange disjunctive images always in the process of forming or resolving in the mind. The sequence as a whole seems to be concerned as much with the operations of thinking and sensing as with any outside objects of reference. Nicholas Manning's poetics works against the divide between exterior and interior. His siding with complexity, in these and other ways, is suggested in the first lines of the book: 'to speak / of * the forgotten / is easy lyricism…'

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Haikunaut Island Renga 2

children laugh unafraid of the past in the summer grass
(Keiji Minato)
a ladybug of leisure wanders upside-down
(Fleur)
on a city tram opening to Han Shan's distances
(Lorin Ford)
cold mountain range plays hidden music
(Joseph Mueller)
hunting truffles the sow cannot help herself
(Ashley Capes)
the streets are empty now rumble of a tank
(Greg Rochlin)
after the lightning strike a ti-tree blooms in halves
(Rhonda Poholke)
a divorced mother bungee jumps
(Aldia)
tattooed on the back of her neck a howling Jesus
(David G. Lanoue)
a cardboard alphabet tacked to backyard trees
(Joseph Mueller)
our renga booklet- the wind turns leaf after leaf and the moon reads it
(Vasile Moldovan)
the players rehearse on Prospero's isle
(Lorin Ford)
after midnight it all goes topsy-turvy
(Genevieve Osborne)
youtube koalas munch on pixel gum leaves
(David Prater)
cross-species kindness - a fireman offers his water bottle
(Anne Elvey)
morning meditation a crow disrupts my shadow
(Graham Nunn)
garden lilac unfurling at the tempo of its fragrance
(Origa)
our postman arrives - pitter-patter tin drum
(Michael Roper)

This is Part 2 of Free Haikunaut Renga. Comments for this post have now been closed.

For a summary of Cordite's haikunaut renga project, please read this post. Haikunauts are go!

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Jill Bamforth Reviews John Jenkins

mrmenziescoverGrowing Up with Mr Menzies by John Jenkins
John Leonard Press, 2008

John Jenkins' narrative verse, Growing Up with Mr Menzies, begins with an imagined visit by the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, to the Elwood home of the infant Felix Hayes. Like a Wise Man at a nativity, Menzies bears a gift, a 'considerably handsome' pocket watch, which he dangles over Felix's cot. The baby responds firstly with smiles and dribbles, but then shows interest in the new object. This interest is deserved, as the watch symbolises the events and ideas which will inform and haunt Felix's later life.

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Haikunaut Island Renga 1

flub-a-dub in the purple west helicopter
(David G. Lanoue)
a bald eagle atop the sharp left turn sign
(Naia)
a woman knits flowers on a soldier's grave
(Lawrence)
her second husband wears red-framed glasses
(SAT??Æ Ayaka)
apple sack and a library book about gravity
(Deborah P Kolodji)
eternal doldrums on the Sea of Tranquility
(josh wikoff)
in no time a lonely cricket calls the tune
(Vasile Moldovan)
Don Marquis' archy cocks a snook at humans
(Kathy Earsman)
small business the pub owner strokes a huge belly
(Origa)
her best rose-covered cup dulled by dust
(Sandra Simpson)
all night the humpbacks speak of love
(josh wikoff)
a water lily opens in Kakadu
(Anne Elvey)
my hand on the rock no space for a shadow
(Sandra Simpson)
da Vinci knows of these things light shade and objects
(Rhonda Poholke)
by the window who sits stitching pearls onto silk?
(Genevieve Osborne)
in poverty's grip identity folds
(Michael Roper)
cherry blossom drift- here comes the poet with his hippopotamus
(Lorin Ford)
listening to Pink Floyd still on the hit list
(Barbara A Taylor)

This is Part 1 of Free Haikunaut Renga. Comments for this post have now been closed. For a summary of Cordite's haikunaut renga project, please read this post. Haikunauts are go!

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Ryan Scott Reviews The Best Australian Poems 2008

The Best Australian Poems 2008 edited by Peter Rose
Black Inc., 2008

When an anthology purports to represent the best poetry of a time or region, it's fair to assume someone will question the validity of its publication. 'On what criteria is this judged?' some readers might wonder. 'Can poetry really have a best?' others will ask. 'Why wasn't I included?' a few may dare voice aloud. The word 'Australian' can be just as controversial. 'What does 'Australian' mean?'; 'Can these poets really speak for us?' The answers provided by The Best Australian Poems 2008 are indirect at best.

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Notes on Renga

Image by Keiji MinatoRenga is a collaborative form of poetry from Japan. In Japan it is now called “renku,” but the term “renga” has been internationally used for quite a long time, so let's go with “renga” here. Renga was born from the tradition of waka, the traditional/prestigious poetic form with 5-7-5-7-7 morae (sound units), in the 12th century. In the beginning it rigidly followed the high aesthetic of old waka in the Royal Court. However, later it began to incorporate secular elements and gave birth to a genre called haikai-no-renga (roughly meaning “mock-renga”) or haikai. Since the end of the 19th century it has been commonly called “renku.” Well, it has quite a tradition …

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Petar Tchouhov: 5 Haiku




пълнолуние

проститутката ме нарича

ангел

full moon the call girl calls me angel
най-дългата нощ гарван краде очите на снежен човек
the longest night a raven steals the eyes of a snowman
нощна буря мисля за куклите на тавана
night storm I’m thinking about the dolls in the attic
задушница отварям черния чадър на баща ми
All Souls' Day I open my father's black umbrella
incessant rain a book from a library that no longer exists

First appeared in Shiki Kukai, February 2008, First Place, Ginyu 28, October 2005, Shiki Kukai, December 2006, Second place; Big Sky: The Red Moon Anthology 2006. Final haiku written in English only – The Heron’s Nest 9.4, December 2007 and Dust of Summers: The Red Moon Anthology 2007.

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Naia: 5 Haiku





parting . . . the clatter of train tracks into dark
father's old books . . . today I open the cabinet just to breathe them
leaving the cabin for the last time . . . pine dust on my shoes
tumbling snowflakes . . . I lose my thought to the space between deck planks
new love . . . still some green in these autumn leaves

First published in (1) Tempes Libre (Belgium), June 2007; (2) SxSE (South x South East) V. 13, No. 2; (3) Acorn, Fall 2001; (4) Frogpond (June 2002); and (5) The Heron’s Nest, January 2003.

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Lenard D. Moore: 5 Haiku





red dust-- a little boy sprints the bases between innings
new century-- the neighbor's rusty car still on blocks
misty river-- the drone of the drawbridge still in my ears
autumn sunset hospital helicopter rises from the heliport
spring moon I bend to touch my daughter's name on the tombstone

First published in (1) The Heron’s Nest, Volume III, Number 1: January, 2001; (2) The Heron’s Nest, Volume III, Number 5: May, 2001; (3) The Heron’s Nest, Volume VII, Number 4: December, 2005; (4) Frogpond, Volume 31 Number 2, Spring/Summer 2008; (5) Modern Haiku, Volume 39 Number 1, Winter-Spring 2008.

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David G. Lanoue: 5 Haiku




O Holy Night the burglar's footprints in snow
after her suicide we learn her name
crying tears of pigeon shit the bronze king
food poisoned in France a night of drizzles
pizza parlor after the murders help wanted
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Toru Kiuchi: 5 Haiku

a variety of things fall down under the dark of trees

いろいろなものおちてくる木下闇

a baby spider climbs up along my trousers’ crease

蜘蛛の子の服の折目をかけあがる

in a house where nobody comes a mackerel sky

たれもこぬ栖家にねむり鰯雲

morning glory’s seeds all black I shut the big door

まつくろな朝顔の種大戸閉づ

whenever I squeeze a citron I’m at twilight

青柚子を絞ればいつもたそがるる

(All of the above haiku first appeared in Toru Kiuchi, Hanazuou [Sappan] Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1997).

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Jim Kacian: 5 Haiku



the endless loop of the men's room towel this morning
in murky light in grand-dad's attic gelignite
beneath the Milky Way an evening soft with moths
pain fading the days back to wilderness
between statues the rest of history

First published in (1) modern haiku 39:3, (3) presence 36 and (4) roadrunner (2007). (5) won 1st Prize Kusamakura 2008

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Ljudmila Hristova: 5 Haiku






замръзнало езеро рибите почукват по небето frozen lake fish keep knocking on the sky
топла вечер клоните на сухата топола – мрежа за звезди warm evening the poplar’s dry branches – fishing-net for stars
пълнолуние сянката на котката се спуска по улука full moon the cat’s shadow is sliding down the gutter
гъст сняг падна последният зъб на гребена ми heavy snow the last tooth of my comb fell off
слънце… сянка… слънце още са млади крайпътните дървета sunshine… shadow… sunshine… the roadside trees are still so young
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Stanford M. Forrester: 5 Haiku





falling for the flame trick again . . . me & the moth
Shiva's Temple - a toddler chants along in baby talk
Chinatown morning - the vendor turns on the toy sparrows
after the bang bits of paper & smoke . . . a bottle rocket
arts & crafts . . . gone to hell in a handbasket i wove myself


First published in (1) Paper Wasp14:4 spring 2008;
(2) Modern Haiku 39.2 Summer 2008;
(3) Ko Vol. 22 No.10 Spring-Summer 2008;
(4/5) Wind Flow/ 2008 Anthology of the Boston Haiku Society.

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