- 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
Sarah French
Flash Bulbs in the Dark: Women are Dynamite
The poetry canon does women few favours. Over the years, I’ve had to seek out and find my own choice femmes to balance out the bookshelves. Never feeling the pull of Plath or Dickinson, I went from Sappho to Aphra …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Alison Croggon, Claire Gaskin, GUNCOTTON, Helen Symonds, joanne burns, Michelle Cahill, Sarah French, women
Wards of State of Western Australia
for Diane They liked church the way we liked Countdown the man had a moustache & the woman had one too – a soft, dark shadow that haunted her smile Diane didn't like calling them 'Ma' and 'Pa' because they …
Posted in 31: SECRET CITIES
Tagged Sarah French
Briohny Doyle Reviews Five Islands New Poets Series 12
There are about 75 poets in Australia today whose first collection was published as part of the Five Islands New Poets Series. I arrive at this figure taking into account the number of years that the series has been published, allowing for what is referred to in several places as the 'slight hiccup' of 1997. If it is a little inaccurate it hardly matters.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Adrian Robinson, Angela Costi, Briohny Doyle, Craig Billingham, Ella Holcombe, Nandi Chinna, Sarah French
The Long Drop
Sarah French was born in Perth in 1969. Her work has appeared in Imago, Westerly, Blue Dog and Meanjin.
Posted in 21: DOMESTIC ENEMY
Tagged Sarah French
Ghost Writing
Lapsed vegetarian, lapsed Jew we connect at absurd points (one discreet eater of bacon to another) memory like the old story about the blind men & the elephant each groping for proof you will insist on your version how you …
Posted in 19: ANTI/HEROES
Tagged Sarah French
Weeds
Sarah French was born in Perth in 1969. Her work has appeared in Imago, Westerly, Blue Dog and Meanjin.
Posted in 17: DRIVER
Tagged Sarah French
Midnight Cowboy
You do your dreaming on Greyhound buses do all your dreaming between destinations In the New York smog will follow you like a hangover you'll buy a postcard to catch a view hustle women with hard-baked skin by asking directions …
Posted in 09: MUSIC
Tagged Sarah French
simultaneous / soon
burn through cliches / a pack a day smoker / soon your smile will burn like paper / curl & disintegrate simultaneous / soon you'll become thin as a whisper / cough up a cast iron lung / soon you'll …
Posted in 08: FESTIVAL
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