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- 121: NO THEME 15with M Beneba Clarke 120: DIALOGUEwith E Chong 119: FITwith E Collyer 118: PRECARIOUSwith A Jackson 117: NO THEME 14with A Creece 116: REMEMBERwith M Sahhar and A Te Whiu 115: SPACEwith A Sometimes 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
Ella Jeffery
How to be a poet: Expert advice for aspiring and emerging poets
To commemorate Poetry Month, I’ve put together a guide for people who want to try poetry, or who are writing poetry and don’t know what to do next. I reached out to a variety of working poets, teachers and editors, asking for their best advice for aspiring and emerging poets. Together with my own advice, here’s the consensus.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Alex Creece, Andy Jackson, Bella Li, Benjamin Laird, Caitlin Maling, David Prater, David Stavanger, Dženana Vucic, Ella Jeffery, Felicity Plunkett, Heather Taylor Johnson, Hellai Gul, Ivor Indyk, Jeanine Leane, Jennifer Compton, Jessica Wilkinson, Jocasta Suzanne, Joel M. Toledo, ken bolton, Kent MacCarter, Manisha Anjali, michael farrell, Panda Wong, Pascalle Burton, Pi O, Rae White, Tim Loveday, Toby Fitch, Tricia Dearborn
In the Former French Concession
I see them from my bedroom, pegged beside the neighbour’s smog-coloured slips, and on street corners in the black thatch of power lines: fish dried crisp, leaf-print bodies honed to bone, mined for eyes and eggs, scales and fins mixed …
Posted in 86: NO THEME VII
Tagged Ella Jeffery
Crescent Road
Nobody comes here who is not lost or home. 3 pm: the hour of housecats whiskering across open-palmed backyards while cars shark up this hill much too fast. The road’s a double nothing: it splits into tarry hoops of cul-de-sacs …
Posted in 84: SUBURBIA
Tagged Ella Jeffery
Buying Satin Dresses at Yu Garden
I buy them like fruit, my body still on the bike, one foot grounded. This one like a wedge of lime on my lip. Idiot machines clench these colours together in some grainy province, craft ravelled down to whatever thread’s …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Ella Jeffery
genius loci
god of wrong-coloured curtains we kept anyway god of the chlorine-poisoned geckoes and treefrogs in the filter box god of pale brown spiders that cruise humid cupboards empty shoes a sleep-warm bed god of cups exiled to drink up dust …
Posted in 82: LAND
Tagged Ella Jeffery
GIBBERBIRD Editorial
This issue is a poetic conversation between a source poem and ten poems found from within its lines. It’s a refraction of language and image through poetic prisms, an intersection of the familiar and unfamiliar, blurring the edges through the 11 authors’ interpretations.
Native
A block of greasy light reaches me from the neighbour’s shed, settles on the desk. I browse the keyboard for words I have forgotten. I type ‘stitch’ and imagine skin. I copy down my steps all night in the cold …
Posted in 51: GIBBERBIRD
Tagged Ella Jeffery
