- 114: NO THEME 13with J Toledo & C Tse 113: INVISIBLE WALLSwith A Walker & D Disney 112: TREATwith T Dearborn 111: BABYwith S Deo & L Ferney 110: POP!with Z Frost & B Jessen 109: NO THEME 12with C Maling & N Rhook 108: DEDICATIONwith L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik 107: LIMINALwith B Li 106: OPENwith C Lowe & J Langdon 105: NO THEME 11with E Grills & E Stewart 104: KINwith E Shiosaki 103: AMBLEwith E Gomez and S Gory 102: GAMEwith R Green and J Maxwell 101: NO THEME 10with J Kinsella and J Leanne 100: BROWNFACE with W S Dunn 99: SINGAPOREwith J Ip and A Pang 97 & 98: PROPAGANDAwith M Breeze and S Groth 96: NO THEME IXwith M Gill and J Thayil 95: EARTHwith M Takolander 94: BAYTwith Z Hashem Beck 93: PEACHwith L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong 92: NO THEME VIIIwith C Gaskin 91: MONSTERwith N Curnow 90: AFRICAN DIASPORAwith S Umar 89: DOMESTICwith N Harkin 88: TRANSQUEERwith S Barnes and Q Eades 87: DIFFICULTwith O Schwartz & H Isemonger 86: NO THEME VIIwith L Gorton 85: PHILIPPINESwith Mookie L and S Lua 84: SUBURBIAwith L Brown and N O'Reilly 83: MATHEMATICSwith F Hile 82: LANDwith J Stuart and J Gibian 81: NEW CARIBBEANwith V Lucien 80: NO THEME VIwith J Beveridge 57.1: EKPHRASTICwith C Atherton and P Hetherington 57: CONFESSIONwith K Glastonbury 56: EXPLODE with D Disney 55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUSwith M Chakraborty and K MacCarter 55: FUTURE MACHINES with Bella Li 54: NO THEME V with F Wright and O Sakr 53.0: THE END with P Brown 52.0: TOIL with C Jenkins 51.1: UMAMI with L Davies and Lifted Brow 51.0: TRANSTASMAN with B Cassidy 50.0: NO THEME IV with J Tranter 49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH with M Hall and S Seita 49.0: OBSOLETE with T Ryan 48.1: CANADA with K MacCarter and S Rhodes 48.0: CONSTRAINT with C Wakeling 47.0: COLLABORATION with L Armand and H Lambert 46.1: MELBOURNE with M Farrell 46.0: NO THEME III with F Plunkett 45.0: SILENCE with J Owen 44.0: GONDWANALAND with D Motion 43.1: PUMPKIN with K MacCarter 43.0: MASQUE with A Vickery 42.0: NO THEME II with G Ryan 41.1: RATBAGGERY with D Hose 41.0: TRANSPACIFIC with J Rowe and M Nardone 40.1: INDONESIA with K MacCarter 40.0: INTERLOCUTOR with L Hart 39.1: GIBBERBIRD with S Gory 39.0: JACKPOT! with S Wagan Watson 38.0: SYDNEY with A Lorange 37.1: NEBRASKA with S Whalen 37.0: NO THEME! with A Wearne 36.0: ELECTRONICA with J Jones
Anders Villani
Valour
If he were angrier, it would be better for them. She would like that more. Want him in a way she can’t anymore. They can’t be in the car anymore. Camp in an empty lot beside a football oval off …
Posted in 109: NO THEME 12
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On the Rise
All morning, the brothers work their father. They break him—he leaves his odd jobs undone and drives them to the tennis club. White cloud banks avalanche. Wasps cloud the drink taps. Summer heat rubbers the air treacly with the wattle …
Posted in 105: NO THEME 11
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Compassionate Grounds
Nausea ransoms hour twelve of the second flight. It wants the Dramamine you refuse to have left in Melbourne. In Planet of the Apes, the human discovers a talent for invective still prodigious. Voices breach my headphones, fingers knife open …
Posted in 102: GAME
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Adam Ford Reviews Rae White’s Milk Teeth and Anders Villani’s Aril Wire
Poetry debuts are not necessarily juvenilia. The vagaries of poetry publishing mean that by the time a poet’s first collection is published they often are, at least by some standards, emerging fully formed, able and ready to demonstrate their skill to a willing audience.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Adam Ford, Anders Villani, Rae White
Moravian Eclipse Myth (Corona of Hunters and Prey)
Seven women roam a caldera in the mountains. One starred in a ‘90s sketch comedy—wigged damsel Fabio strummed the lute for. One knows how arms at sea say, Save me, above the waves and below; her red one-piece’s cut grooves …
Posted in 87: DIFFICULT
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Young Animism
A white-blonde boy stands toe-to-wave on a surf beach in Queensland, midwinter. He has just dug from the shallows a small, ruddy shell. Some kind of ark, perhaps although the plump red-lipped mouth—that cups his right ear, nibbles it, hisses …
Posted in 80: NO THEME VI
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Bedtime Story/Reveille
Snow can’t have fallen. There was a chessboard on a scintillating bluff of stairwell flesh—what-all he up endued, or down, with pivots, concretised. It smelt of old spit- air let from a carnival mallet. 5 a.m. He’s in a bed, …
Posted in 70: UMAMI
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Learn the Flowers
Entry for February 5th, 1798. Wordsworth walks to Stowey with Coleridge. She observes some trees putting up red shoots. And then, innocently, she signs off: Query—What trees are they?. In twelfth-grade philosophy class you visited a Buddhist temple, somewhere out …
Posted in 69: TRANSTASMAN
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Cabin Near Stirling
Vision crowded with mass coronal injections —the pit he’d kicked in the snow behind their untreated log cabin so shallow he was shitting on himself— skin too numb to notice, was this one of the welcome numbs—White Sallee copse too …
Posted in 68: NO THEME IV
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