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- 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
Ian Wedde
from The Little Ache: a German notebook
4 ‘ … dichte und schöne Fenster.’ ‘Well-sealed and nice windows’ are what Frau Merkel the German Chancellor thinks epitomise what’s best about her country its core value the key performance indicator establishing its point of difference from draughtier places …
Posted in 69: TRANSTASMAN
Tagged Ian Wedde
Trans-Tasman: Book Reviews and Best New Zealand Poetry 2013
It’s 2014. Time to expand / add to the Trans-Tasman conversation on poetics between Australia and New Zealand. The Best New Zealand Poems 2013 has now been published. Online only. Check it out. Congratulation to Murray Edmond, Anne Kennedy and …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Alan Brunton, Amy Brown, Anna Jackson, Chris Price, Ian Wedde, Lisa Samuels, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Stephen Oliver
NZ 6-Seater: A Chapbook Curated by Ian Wedde
Invited by Kent MacCarter to convene a 6-seater of local poets from this neck of the Pacific woods – New Zealand – I faced the usual short list of questions we all try to avoid answering:
1. What do you mean, ‘local’?
2. What do you mean, ‘Pacific’?
3. Can I invite my friends?
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Anne Kennedy, Ian Wedde, John Newton, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond, Sam Sampson, Selina Tusitala Marsh
from High Lonesome
1 Here’s a day I’d like to have back: the first weekend we stayed at Flock Hill – Ken and Rob, the gang from the Harbour – in the shepherd’s cottage with Andy and Liz. The dawn of the decade, …
Posted in SIX SEATER
Tagged Ian Wedde, John Newton
Conversation with My Uncle
the last time we spoke about it you told me how she had raised the glass high in the air and poured the beer all over his head now don’t try to tell me that wasn’t what you said or …
Posted in SIX SEATER
Tagged Ian Wedde, Murry Edmond
experiments (our life together)
here is my experiment with the dark we run to the top of the street and crossing it become aware of the fountain’s lip and mosaics under water pink blue hyaline we step through the foot bath yes the gold …
Posted in SIX SEATER
Tagged Ian Wedde, Michele Leggott
Floating Ribs
for Panya Kraitus and Pitisuk Kraitus The bottom ribs On both sides Of the body Are fragile Easily broken They are Floating ribs If struck By a kick with the foot A knee kick down From above A swinging knee …
Posted in SIX SEATER
Tagged Ian Wedde, Selina Tusitala Marsh
Flood Monologue
You never discussed the stream and no doubt the stream didn’t want your discourse (its own merry way) but now that you live by the stream a mosquito has come up the bank and bitten you, and the stream is …
Posted in SIX SEATER
Tagged Anne Kennedy, Ian Wedde
I Spilled My Story
a raft plunged … picadored green people tethered to years wend their way, squawking about an adventure without a conch, conversation you could swim in, also magnify … bubbles … well-warped logicians … ionised passages a deep-freeze refrigerates escapades and …
Posted in SIX SEATER
Tagged Ian Wedde, Sam Sampson
The Lifeguard, part 7
A buzzing in the ears as if bees were swarming in my thoughts or as if my head had become a clearing in the forest filled with the never-too-late serenades of cicadas at summer’s end makes me long for the …
Posted in 52: INTERLOCUTOR
Tagged Ian Wedde
