- 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
Diane Fahey
The Black Cockatoos
On photographs by Leila Jeffreys As if, surely, they recognise her joy in them, wear it welcomingly on their own gaze, they create, with her, a mutual stillness. Then her finger moves. Some carry stories, cryptically hidden but present, of …
Posted in 96: NO THEME IX
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Review Short: Diane Fahey’s November Journal and Carmen Leigh Keates’s Meteorites
The most recent work by Diane Fahey, November Journal, and Carmen Leigh Keates’ first collection, Meteorites, represent two offerings of quiet intensity controlled and mediated by distinct voices and their respective energies.
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Tagged Carmen Leigh Keates, Diane Fahey, Nathanael Pree
Glass Flowers
1 Alchemical vessels imbued with rumours of colour – a pearly acorn-brown, tinctures of amber, buff-white: the Trickster, light, mixing it up, sheathing each sculpted bloom in the glow of other objects; even the innermost whorl, the nectary, endowed with …
Posted in 79: EKPHRASTIC
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Luck
My mother threw pinches of spilt salt over her left shoulder, would toss water that had boiled eggs onto the garden; crossed knives were swiftly uncrossed on the table. For good luck: her youngest brother’s signet ring, its horseshoe worn …
Posted in 66: OBSOLETE
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Review Short: Diane Fahey’s The Stone Garden: Poems from Clare
A note on the copyright page of The Stone Garden reads: ‘The Stone Garden is written in tanka, the five-line Japanese lyric form, the first and third of its lines having five syllables, the others, seven.’ The book keeps to this syllabic form throughout with two five line poems to a page. These poems from Clare unfold in six sections and Fahey’s craft is evident in the way she can break registers of imagery with engaging shifts and turns.
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Tagged Anne Elvey, Diane Fahey
from: Zoo Birds
Mute swans form pictograms from unknown languages; write with mango beaks on lakes; move at will from one kind of perfection to another. Meditation Icons of the art of now, of being nowhere but here, they practise pure stillness, freedom …
Posted in 60: SILENCE
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Andy Jackson Reviews Carl Rickard and Diane Fahey
Carl Rickard's Lost Places and Diane Fahey's Sea Wall and River Light are distinctly Australian, both in their themes and as products. They indicate something about how writers living in Australia see their place in the world, and how they try to make themselves heard.
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Carl Rickard, Diane Fahey
Spring News
An elephant seal came to lie along banked kelp, its eyes wet with the sea's gleam and all the brighter for being set in that grey body – one long, lounging muscle stroked by the tide. This side, a stretch …
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Cormorants at Solstice
Shades of the goose, the penguin? But that conduit of snow-striped black, the lithe fluidity on shore, are yours. Twin peaks, gothic against humdrum waves, loom as feathers dry. Body shapes – comic, ingenious or statuesque – suggest an alphabet …
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