- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with 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
Ben Walter
Mt Mueller
a duel in snow, so many seconds and sunken paces; are these brigades drunken with laughter and wild aims? if he chooses, he can thicken the air with grapeshot from the south, but it is clear: with such clumps of …
Posted in 114: NO THEME 13
Tagged Ben Walter
South
yet with cameras and caps, how diluted this tanker’s oil streaming through wharves, cashed town searching for extremities, habitat of buses; here we are, we are on time. i too have followed the landed coast, prodigal breath thrusting salt over …
Posted in 93: PEACH
Tagged Ben Walter
The Tall Man
the vision has retreated into tamer signs, but for a moment I saw further; when the crowds of street petered into gum gravel and humble lights lifted up their irises of glass, there, an effigy jangled my heart, stalking at …
Posted in 91: MONSTER
Tagged Ben Walter
My Dad and I Are Discussing His Olympic Career
My Dad and I are discussing his Olympic career and I am trying to remember which sport he entered. “None of them,” he says, “but let’s go with hurling.” “Is hurling even an Olympic sport?” I ask. “Of course,” he …
Posted in 89: DOMESTIC
Tagged Ben Walter
The Land as Breath: Can Poetic Forms Be Metaphors for Landscapes?
We are standing in the midst of a football field doubled in size and then doubled again; a great, flat oval of water covered by streaks of green sedge that strike up from the surface like spindly grass.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Ben Walter, Nicolas Rothwell, Pete Hay
Pale and Cold
the kayak is pounding at the rough-torn waves as though demanding to come inside, knocking at the troughs and striving to bash down through that open door, the surface of the sea; churning like a crowd, Alisa thinks with her …
Posted in 82: LAND
Tagged Ben Walter
Mt Frederick
there is a passage in the lee, the lees of the sun; the poor are said to be generous. we’re holding out our feet.
Posted in 69: TRANSTASMAN
Tagged Ben Walter
Another Story
Once there was a raven girl wiping weary towels across the face of spent plates, tuning here and there to my announcements as I hold these colours open, cold bears huddled in the pages and chickens preening their selfishness with …
Posted in 52: INTERLOCUTOR
Tagged Ben Walter
This Wealth of When
suddenly, noticing a lost sixty hidden in the blue carvings, furrows gaping like fish, frugal fountain dipping to baptise white faces, roses to itemise and radishes to task, there, then he is sewn; fingers pool in drops on the desk.
Posted in 50: JACKPOT!
Tagged Ben Walter
Servant (389)
There are clouds of greying carpets, mounting dishes, filthy climate. You were built by childish dream to fight this future revolution of domesticity. Raw materials mined from Asimov, blueprints from Quantum, partners in luxury. But these figures, circuits, equations… Servant …
Posted in 22: ROBO
Tagged Ben Walter