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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
nick whittock
Duncan Hose Reviews Nick Whittock
Whatever happened to the Goddam enlightenment? I understand that this grandiose Western intrigue has moved dialectically through succeeding twilights if not dark ages, and the twentieth century was a sort of apocalyptic culmination or quickening of this protracted ‘event’ with the splitting of the atom, the holocaust and turning the idea of the world into a globalised tele-visual circus of war and business.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Duncan Hose, nick whittock
hows its: To the Pitch with Nicky and Astrid
Last June I had the pleasure of launching Nick Whittock’s hows its at Gleebooks in Sydney. Since then, Michael Farrell’s extraordinary review has been published in the Sydney Review of Books, and Simon Eales’s essay, ‘’Get ready for a broken fucken arm’: The anti-instrumentalism of postcolonial cricket poetry’, discussing Whittock’s earlier chapbook covers, has been published by the UK-based magazine Don’t Do It. It seems that we are in a moment – this one, right here – in which a discussion of Whittock’s poetics and a deep engagement with the critical relationship between reading cricket and writing poetry is emerging. In the spirit of the moment, I have reworked, or rather, rewritten, my speech for Cordite Poetry Review.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Astrid Lorange, nick whittock
WATSONIA CC 1st XI 2063/64 premiership team
1. in watsonia perceptions in the aggregate of bodies 2. in watsonia numbers occur in ordinary sentences 3. in watsonia theres no setting up of a kind of logical inventory formerly imagined 4. in watsonia a dream acquires in the …
Posted in 62: MELBOURNE
Tagged nick whittock
Review Short: Damian Balassone’s Daniel Yammacoona
The first three poems in Damian Balassone’s Daniel Yammacoona are about women who have been left by men. In each case the man appears to be the hero of the story, yet the woman is not necessarily unheroic; in at least two of the poems the heroism is one of steadfastness.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Damian Balassone, nick whittock
india v aus 11-12 1st test day 4
unison umps stretch fins kind of game children play zaheer sucking pattos bat attention wanders returns finds sehwag on the ground dont worry nothins happened zap! trigger fin! beckons the rammer! expand outwards from a point amass a chronicle a …
Posted in 56: NO THEME II
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Wandering through the Universal Archive
One of the sequences produced by the collaborative entity, A Constructed World, renders the phrases ‘No need to be great’ and ‘Stay in Groups’ in a range of media – silk-stitch, screen print, photography and painting. One of the painted versions of the image shows a naked woman covered in yellow post-it notes overseen by a hulking, shadowy male. These figures represent the artists Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe. The image appears again in the form of a photograph and the installation was staged in various places around the world – as if the only way to get the message across would be to subject it to constant repetition in as many different formats as possible. Indeed, a number of the collective’s performances and installations attest to the impossibility of communication – even as these take the form of images that can’t fail to deliver. Avant Spectacle A Micro Medicine Show, 2011, features skeleton-costumed performers inexpertly singing and playing instruments while six knee-high wooden letters – S, P, E, E, C and H – burn like small condemned buildings at front of stage.
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Amaranth Borsuk, Astrid Lorange, Brad Bouse, Charles Bernstein, Eddie Hopely, Fiona Hile, Jessica L. Wilkinson, John Jenkins, John Kinsella, Justin Clemens, Kate Middleton, ken bolton, Louis Armand, Maged Zaher, Marty Hiatt, michael farrell, nick whittock, Oscar Schwartz, Pam Brown, Patrick Jones, Richard Tuttle, Sam Langer, Tim Wright, Timothy Yu, Toby Fitch
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top knot (?) bike trajectory wires cut the blue filed somere bunched up others ride wide aberrant onescarse collisions every 30 secs the electricity fizzes m ear m dances the slowest era under the sun bump sunny concrete cracks thoracic …
Posted in 42: CHILDREN OF MALLEY II
Tagged nick whittock, Tim Wright
Warne Malley: the marketing of blonde tips
WARNE MALLEY materialised on the plains surrounding Toldeo during the summer of 2005. Bowling handy legspin and speaking only a unique dialect of the Spanish language he moved quickly south. He currently captains the first grade side for a small club on the coast. He clearly has no sister.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
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spin
Nick Whittock lives in an ideal world where cricket reigns supreme.
Posted in 20: SUBMERGED
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Nick is the world's foremost cricket speculator. His first book 'covers' is out very soon through COD, an imprint of Cordite Poetry Review. Nick is also providing Cordite with a blog commentary on this summer's test matches.
Posted in 20: SUBMERGED
Tagged nick whittock
Justin Langer
nick whittock lives in a perfect world where cricket prevails.
Posted in 19: ANTI/HEROES
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Jan Ullrich v Lance Armstrong
Katherine and Nick work together and send each other a lot of very important emails.
Posted in 19: ANTI/HEROES
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Sooopermario
Katherine and Nick work together and send each other a lot of very important emails.
Posted in 19: ANTI/HEROES
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India vs Australia 03/04
Nick Whittock lives in an ideal world where cricket prevails.
Posted in 18: ROOTS
Tagged nick whittock
Steve Waugh and His Current Insignificance when at the Crease
steve waugh is a strange sport where manoeuvres barely visible is crooked and ask if they think steve of matchfixing if mark waugh can be bought the game and its most visible gorillamama. cricket was one of them. steve waugh …
Posted in 16: SEARCH
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Brett Lee
Over the past four issues, Cordite has featured a number of poems by self-professed cricket tragic, Nick Whittock. In fact, Nick's poems were the genesis of the current Test Match issue.
Posted in 12: TEST MATCH
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Sonny Rollins
Nick Whittock is perhaps one of Australia's foremost cricket theorists. He currently lives in Melbourne but hopes one day to become a life-member of the Kameruka C.C.
Posted in 12: TEST MATCH
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Nick Whittock: Watching the Grass Grow
When it is cricket that is the matter, all forces return to the ball at the limits of the universe. The grass is still growing. It is photosynthesising, there is a flow of moisture involved here among other things (sunlight, carbon dioxide…)
Posted in FEATURES
Tagged cricket, nick whittock, test match
David Prater Interviews Nick Whittock
Melbourne poet and raconteur Nick Whittock recently took time out from writing his inimitable cricket poems in order to face 12 questions sent down the wires by friend and fellow cricket tragic, Sam Kidman.
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged David Prater, nick whittock
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i wanna be robbie williams i so almost am i wa nna fold in dimensions hit herto unheard of i wanna be a cephalopoid superb c reature with a thick thick sp ine a bone that interrupts ca uses blockages …
Posted in 11: COPYLEFT
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