- 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
Kim Gaihyun
‘Don’t be stupid’ (‘바보같이 굴지 마’)
I looked at his darkening profile, So, you are Korean? No, Chinese, he said If he were the black guy last night I’d keep talking about Kenya and Obama How his dad used to be working in the bank whose …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Gaihyun, Ouyang Yu
Volcano Meditation (화산 명상)
All the best men are interested in other men, or their forearms are strong and lightly haired. All the best men are already without that which they need no longer. So it is that each woman, adrift, ends up with …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Gaihyun, Stuart Cooke
Sudden Rain, Tilba Tilba (갑작스런 비, 틸바 틸바*)
We no longer go out to paint, unless the object to be represented is such that it cannot be transported. – Lang Shi Ning (Giuseppe Castiglione, Qing Dynasty court painter) The fly-screen door has only just banged shut & already …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged James Stuart, Kim Gaihyun
Everyday Magician (매일의 마술사)
another boy catches a drive ►by bullet in his chest. born with straightjackets we buy records and start fires. gravity lets go. in the city no-one drowned last night. the florist saws another white lady in half. so many mis-made …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged David Stavanger, Kim Gaihyun
Do Not Feed the Lion (사자에게 먹이를 주지 마라)
enter the tangle stay in groups, make sure you’re alone bare your fangs, smile with tiger eyes do not feed the lion scratch your back watch the big cat take your hands start to run when your confidence wanes do …
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Tagged David Stavanger, Kim Gaihyun
The New Scientist (새로운 과학자)
like a brave flag parading in the slipstream of some desk jockey’s eight start day the miracles of this season ruffle like a party dress or the leaves in the trees that ridge as snug as a favourite collar and …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Gaihyun, liam ferney
View from the Yarra Bend with two men (두 남자와 야라 벤드*에서 내려다 본 풍경)
An ugly gentleman, six-and-a-half feet tall, combs his black hair across one ear, and then another. Mallee gums eavesdrop the space where the magpies dig for paddle pops and ants, and he sees himself face down beneath the bench and …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Corey Wakeling, Kim Gaihyun
View from the memory in which we try to kiss each other (우리가 서로에게 입맞추려 했던 기억으로부터의 모습)
Firstly, I would like to say that I am sorry. Right now I’m kissing you on the shore of a lake so broad it is pulling all of the vistas of the earth in toward it. The plug island at …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Corey Wakeling, Kim Gaihyun
Five Sijo For My Raider (침입자를 위한 다섯 수의 시조)
Enemy, you have raided my country, your handwriting floats
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Tagged Kim Gaihyun, Michelle Cahill
This Is a Poem Without Mothers (이것은 어머니들이 없는 시다)
The alarm in the morning is made of rubber invents the day around it like a drum. Leonard Cohen. Um. The alarm in the morning is made of stones we unearthed near a horse. My father, smoking a cigar. The …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Gaihyun, luke beesley
Carp (잉어)
One summer the creek dried up. After cricket, me and a couple of the other boys, In our whites, Went down to the creek bed. There was just a large puddle left, very muddy. In it, a carp: huge. It …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Daniel O'Callaghan, Kim Gaihyun
A survey of bearded men (수염 기른 남자들에 대한 조사)
I grow a beard because I hate constant shaving I grow a beard to look distinguished I grow a beard because it is the natural thing to do I grow a beard because it is manly I grow a beard …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Gaihyun, Pascalle Burton
“The sky becomes” (“하늘은 된다”)
THE SKY BECOMES more assertive and does not care for my clothes. I stare at the driver until he stops cold, assertive. She tells me a story of brothers and hospitals, it’s about success and inquiry. I remembered the way …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Jill Jones, Kim Gaihyun
Bagnier (바그니에)
When their skirts swell in the flouncing water like the thick wave of a stingray, and their hair grows weedlike on their cheeks, and their eyes are as swift as shoaled fish, that’s when I know I’m needed most. Their …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Fiona Wright, Kim Gaihyun
Terrace (테라스)
for Tara A girl in coral and horn glasses is discussing the relative frequency of her massages and orgasms, and how protein shakes are made from cattle hearts, and how the sniffer dogs might find the Valium in her handbag. …
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Tagged Fiona Wright, Kim Gaihyun
The peeling (껍질)
Your peripheries don’t rest easily, expanding to embrace the imposing strips of fallen bark that gather all the russet pigments of carmine and leaf mould with the mealy beige of new skins, uneven pieces from an impossible jigsaw circling the …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Jane Gibian, Kim Gaihyun
Nesting songs (둥지 틀기의 노래)
First song Familiar curves of the downhill road home, bodies swaying in unison with steep corners; the quickening of movement inside: a great fish turns and glides away, an allegro low in the torso. On the lounge room floor, a …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Jane Gibian, Kim Gaihyun
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 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
