- 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
Andy Kissane
First Reading
We begin rehearsals in a freezing warehouse that was once a factory reverberating with the hum and clanking of shuttle looms and the numbing routine of days that chilled down into the soul, that accumulated a tally of impoverished hours …
Posted in 102: GAME
Tagged Andy Kissane
Kent State University—the Photograph
I am still half asleep when I stumble towards the fridge, take two oranges out of the crisper and find the sharp knife. I slice them in half, then press the skin down on the green glass dome, watching the …
Posted in 93: PEACH
Tagged Andy Kissane
Hoop Girl
As the trishaw rolls to a stop, I spy a girl standing on the footpath in Rue Catinat, near the Continental, twirling a hoop around her midriff, spinning it with enough torque to hold it up— the supple undulations of …
Posted in 89: DOMESTIC
Tagged Andy Kissane
Johnno and the Seagulls
is not the name of a boy band, though it could be, I think, and then how it’s so easy to lay the blame at the feet of others. But if you hold the brush, then you’re responsible for how …
Posted in 84: SUBURBIA
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The Book of Screams
Each day in hospital I wake to a reading from The Book of Screams. It comes, apparently, from the bathroom situated two-thirds of the way along the hall. No one talks while the screams linger. I pass the time by …
Posted in 80: NO THEME VI
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Riding the Rotor with No End in Sight
You can’t even make time to kick a football with your own son, my wife says one night, when my boy is already asleep. I drop him at Before School Care each morning & tell him to have a good …
Posted in 71: TOIL
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Review Short: Andy Kissane’s Radiance
In ‘Percy Shelley’s Heart’, Kissane writes with gusto and surreal humour. But he is equally at home portraying domestic intimacies within the poet’s own relationship (‘Sea of Tranquillity’), or hardship and joy as a child plays soccer with his friends following a day scrounging a living in Phnom Penh’s garbage tip (‘On Smoky Mountain’).
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Andy Kissane, John Upton
Kuburan Suamiku | My Husband’s Grave
Kuburan Suamiku Aku merobek widuri kapas dari rumput di samping kuburanmu. mungkin kau injak hamparan rumput itu menjelang kepergianmu yang terakhir, menarik duri dari celanamu, mengagumi bunga ungu menawan. Alangkah jauh kau berjalan, lewat tumpukan jerami terbakar dan rumah-rumah kosong, …
Posted in 53: INDONESIA
Tagged Andy Kissane, Dorothea Rosa Herliany
Stephen Lawrence Reviews Andy Kissane and Alan Gould
Even in the earliest era of proto-literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh sought to represent human voice, its intonations and social communications. Yet the clearest sign of a versatile writer is the extent to which he or she can dislocate the voice, free it up, loosen it into multiplicity. And the more experienced the writer, the more likely they are to catch on to this.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Alan Gould, Andy Kissane, Stephen Lawrence
Paola Bilbrough Reviews Andy Kissane
Just as there are two poetic sensibilities, Every Night They Dance is in a sense two books. The poems in Part 1 are dramatic monologues with Kissane slipping easily into a range of different voices and skins: Arthur Streeton, a suffragette, a Kanak, a colonial farm girl who saves the life of an Aboriginal man, various nineteenth century workers and others. In a particularly long poem, The Ghosts of Marrickville Metro, the essence of a job is captured beautifully in the choice of language and rhythm:
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Tagged Andy Kissane, Paola Bilbrough
On the Highway
after Dorothea Lange The road takes your eye. Dave stands in front of me on the loose gravel, his gaze locked on the bitumen, following the curve past the last tree to the haze of hills in the distance. His …
Posted in 04: UNTHEMED
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