- 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
Ivy Alvarez
Namumulaklak ang tanrangkahan
The North Sea: a drama queen pounding the shore. You led me to the dark; perhaps to reveal a hutch, bring out a rabbit for me. You proposed a confusion. The rabbit was missing and the box in your pocket. …
Posted in 88: TRANSQUEER
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
Archiving the Present: Ivy Alvarez Interviews Conchitina Cruz
From November 2016 to April 2017, I corresponded with Cruz over email. Commensurate with an ongoing political emergency, and in the face of turmoil and bloodshed in the Philippines, this conversation is, out of necessity, open-ended.
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Conchitina Cruz, Ivy Alvarez, Rodrigo Duterte
Andy Jackson Reviews Ivy Alvarez and Janet Galbraith
How do we truly belong here on this continent, come to terms with our collective and personal history and build a genuine home for the future? And what of the ongoing legacy of violence on an intimate scale, by men against their partners and children – how can this be challenged and interrupted, changed into mutual trust? These are crucial questions; complicated and painful, yet unavoidable. Two new books recognise this and respond with what, to me, are poetry’s great strengths: the generation of an empathic interpersonal encounter, and that aching paradoxical space of both knowledge and productive ignorance.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Andy Jackson, Ivy Alvarez, Janet Galbraith
Draught
When I read of a ribcage being sawn then cracked open I think of walking alleys lined with glass, holding water. The squid can never close its eyes and I keep finding another station to get lost in, the rain …
Posted in 52: INTERLOCUTOR
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
Asian Australian Diasporic Poets: A Commentary
This essay provides a survey of the poetry of some Asian Australian poets, and does not attempt to be definitive. Diasporic poetics raise more questions than they answer and are just as much about dis-placement as about place, just as much about a ‘poetics of uncertainty’ as about certainties of style/nation/identity.
Q&A with Ivy Alvarez
Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006). Her poems feature in anthologies, journals and new media in many countries, including Best Australian Poems 2009, and have been translated into Russian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In May …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
A Fortnight of Poetry in Seoul
(or, Someone’s Always Falling in Love with Korea and Doesn’t Want to Leave) I am at the boarding gate of Incheon Airport, waiting for my flight to be called and for my return journey to begin. I am wearing large …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Ivy Alvarez, Ozko Features, seoul
Yi Sang House, Seoul
The Conversations with Yi Sang project, co-organised by artist Jooyoung Lee, seeks to interrogate, engage with and memorialise the work of controversial twentieth-century Korean poet Yi Sang. View a gallery of images taken at the house during the Cordite tour of Korea in May 2011.
Posted in 45: OZ-KO (HANGUK-HOJU)
Tagged Ivy Alvarez, Ozko Features, seoul, yi sang
짐승 가공하기 (Curing the animal)
My husband hands me the animal. A soft neck roll and a dead eye, a lustreless fur that I must touch to strip and salt and peg to dry. He is away all the day in the dust. a eucalypt …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Ivy Alvarez, Kim Gaihyun
The Pastoralist Speaks (목가주의자가 말한다)
At the edge of the close-cropped lawn laps the drought, thirsty tongue all out. Every change of name pocks its mark. A scratch of smallpox on a survivor. The squatters clear a small place. A tongue licks dry lips. A …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Ivy Alvarez, Sunghyun Kim
카탈로그 : 식기세트 인생 (Catalogue: Life as Tableware)
accessorise with simple, elegant shapes choose muted bones, the subtle variations of sin harvested from the last century the alluring sparkle of toenails and teeth and the reflective qualities of glazed eyes mix well with hair shorn from a passive …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Ivy Alvarez, Kim Sunghyun
The Farmhouse (Ffermdy Cilewent) (농장 (펌디 싸일웬트*))
in the other room, the bulls stamp and snort their long horns scratch the walls licked by its mother, flies gather at the calf’s forehead drool dropping to the floor the smell of hay their piss and shit smear our …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Ivy Alvarez, Kim Gaihyun
Sisters, 1907 (1907년, 자매들)
We are dandelions on the grass. Pale and slight, any breeze might blow us away. All around us, the vines obscure the harsh lines of stone steps angular borders Behind apron and pinafore, our small hands work in our pockets: a …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Ivy Alvarez, Kim Gaihyun
Zombie 2.0
We know more about the undead species who have lived in our hearts and dined on our minds than ever before. We have probed into their weaknesses, evaded their tricks and know well of their canny (and uncanny) chicanery. We know these things … because they were once like us. Let us not rest on our laurels. Let us be vigilant and as ready as we can be for the uneasy future that is Zombie 2.0.
Curing the Animal
My husband hands me the animal. A soft neck roll and a dead eye, a lustreless fur that I must touch to strip and salt and peg to dry. He is away all the day in the dust. a eucalypt …
Posted in 33: PASTORAL
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
The Pastoralist Speaks
At the edge of the close-cropped lawn laps the drought, thirsty tongue all out. Every change of name pocks its mark. A scratch of smallpox on a survivor. The squatters clear a small place. A tongue licks dry lips. A …
Posted in 33: PASTORAL
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
accretion to smuggle
(The Everyday English Dictionary) secret: I have stolen things — bricks an old mortarboard handfuls of cement dust smuggled in my pockets city: everyone and their cats and dogs the press of legs accretions of noise dirt smog …
Posted in 31: SECRET CITIES
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
An urban dictionary: I
I pops my colla I pulled a boner I pity the fool I owned you I obliterate someone I pressed the button I plain just don't care about them I missed the part where that's my problem I remember Cecil …
Posted in 30: EXPERIENCE
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
there’s only ever been two
in our eyes' dilatory dance our irises open admit missed steps faults it marks the corona every break is here dot dot dash your bones' brittle semaphore tattoo out how far you fell how much we have a third between …
Posted in 23: EDITORIAL INTERVENTION
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
That Second Heart
I cannot accept it. How can one be ready for this gift? My belly cannot curve to tightness, my skin cannot hold a drum (that second heart). I cannot accept it – limbs bursting buds. I cannot have the end …
Posted in 23: EDITORIAL INTERVENTION
Tagged Ivy Alvarez
Q&A with Nick Carbó
Nick Carbó is the author of three books of poetry, El Grupo McDonald's (1995), Secret Asian Man (2000), and Andalusian Dawn (2004), and the editor of three anthologies of Filipino and Filipino-American literature, Returning a Borrowed Tongue (1995), Babaylan (2000), …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Domestic Enemy, Ivy Alvarez, Nick Carbó
Q&A with Denise Duhamel
The first time I met Nick Carbó and Denise Duhamel was, by chance, in a setting appropriately domestic: the laundrette. I left them to their spin cycle and drip dry, but not before arranging to interview them (separately) in their …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Denise Duhamel, Ivy Alvarez
Postcard from Cardiff
I sought it here, I sought it there, I sought it everywhere. It is a sad, but true fact. There are no visible Internet cafes in Cardiff. So when I finally discovered a few terminals at Maccas in the Queen Street mall area, it was a dubious turn of events.
Posted in FEATURES
Tagged Cardiff, Internet, Ivy Alvarez
Pauline Hanson
Pauline Hanson is science fiction Pauline Hanson is correct Pauline Hanson is science fiction by Ian Woolf Pauline Hanson is wrong Pauline Hanson is a warning that the betrayals by the old organisations of the working class Pauline Hanson is …
Posted in 16: SEARCH
Tagged Ivy Alvarez