- 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
Beth Merindah
The Children’s War
Children at the beach dig shoe-box-sized pits to bury their little brothers and sisters. They dig with their hands or bubblegum-coloured spades. Some are swaddled, bleeding rose petals between soft folds. Some are skeletons, re-assembled from pieces of flotsam, driftwood, …
Posted in 112: TREAT
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Earth Apple
You stack his limbs, like kindling, on an eggshell mattress study his mottled skin. Yellow and bruised as though bitten by late blight. Hanging each breath’s a little dust-cloud his halo settles into sediment, raining spittle flecks on starchy sheets. …
Posted in 109: NO THEME 12
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The Force Publique of Lithium-ion Batteries
‘For the colonialists all means are good if they help them to possess these riches.’ — Patrice Lumumba Then, our eldest cousin counseled us; the small children — The dried apricots, aren’t apricots at all, they are the ears of …
Posted in 108: DEDICATION
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Postnatal Obeah
We planted your naval string in a pit that your father dug, so that every Autumn we could eat sweet figs. We broke ground with white rum and buried your placenta with: the clumps of hair that fell to my …
Posted in 104: KIN
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Middle Quarters
Worn women line the roadside waving cello bags of spicy shrimp — burning with scotch bonnet — they’ve dug from the muddy swamps hugging Wray and Nephew’s sugar cane. The asphalt, eaten by rainy season storms, is scarred like skin …
Posted in 103: AMBLE
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Influence
YAS. So retro. SO GOOD. Flames sis. Hella Dope. Kim bangin. You’re so fly. You gangster. Sit on my face. Wenaaa amiga. Red is a feeling. Literally no one:….Kim: INVENTS RED. Exelente Excelente Excelente Exelencia Dope as f**k. MG FIRSTTT …
Posted in 100: BROWNFACE
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Scandal Bag
The scandal bag spilled its belly on the foreshore filling the sand with foam, bile, grabba, and a plastic film that suffocated tamarind seeds studded with sugar. It was a black jellyfish swimming in streams of squid ink, propelled forward …
Posted in 95: EARTH
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