- 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
Terry Jaensch
Blue
for Jordie (after Azzuro) List-making is a prophylaxis against loss. — Wayne Koestenbaum the moon that knew just what I was there for | the heap on the floor of Yevtushenko’s Waiting | Jean Lee | Joni | the largest …
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Review Short: Terry Jaensch’s Shark
You stare into the water, starkly aware of the ambiguous shadows there. So many of us are anglers in the Australian poetry scene; looking for something new, something fresh. Having landed this fish on my desk I will confess to a certain hesitancy to come too close. It’s not a large shark, some 60 odd pages generously spaced. There is more than a little empathy for this distressed, vibrant life. But I’m careful of the teeth.
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Tagged Les Wicks, Terry Jaensch
Terry Jaensch Interviews Kim Ki-Taek
As I write this introduction, it occurs to me that the following interview constitutes my first unmediated communication with Kim Ki-taek (if we discount the technology through which we’ve communicated), that is to say a communication unmediated by a third, human, party.
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Tagged KIm Ki-taek, Terry Jaensch
Gay/Poet/Korea: An Interview with Gabriel Sylvian on the Poetry of Gi Hyeong-do
Gay/Poet/Korea – it is not lost on me that with these three words I might well have been searching for myself, attempting to locate myself in a new context, a new country, but in the end the search produced Gi Hyeong-do.
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Tagged Gabriel Sylvian, Gi Hyeong-do, Terry Jaensch
Air (공기)
Had I but the right cutlery, I could cut it but in this age of convenience and terror I am not to be trusted. I’ve a piece of plastic I must sharpen with my mind, that presently tears, no wipes, …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Sunghyun, Terry Jaensch
Letter from Sungai Buloh | 숭아이 불로(Sungai Buloh)에서 온 편지
Emptying an urn half her size of mosquito larvae and water, the architect’s Australian wife tells me of her husbands sister’s suicide. The family never speak of it; the Japanese occupation of Singapore the need to keep her inside – …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Sunghyun, Terry Jaensch
The Poet Asks His Love to Write Him (그에게 편지를 쓰라고 시인은 자신의 사랑에게 부탁한다)
After Lorca’s “Sonnets of Dark Love” Twink, if you are reading this ring me, SMS abbreviate or I am done for – dun 4 i tel u! The creek bed is risen, bike path beneath. Two days of constant rain, …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Sunghyun, Terry Jaensch
Shark (상어)
“Father-killer and father-supplanter. Go in, and think on this.” – Sophocles Reportage: A man, a father taken today by shark white pointer, a thrash of white water whilst snorkelling with his son. A struggle then blood – in the eyes …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Sunghyun, Terry Jaensch
Cyclist (싸이클리스트)
He tells me he is lonely, his lover has been murdered That was you? That was us. Motioning into distance his eyes away from the toilet block, dismounting his bike, keeping his helmet on; It was in all the papers. …
Posted in 44: OZ-KO (HOJU-HANGUK)
Tagged Kim Sunghyun, Terry Jaensch
Experience
Okay this was how I was going to start this editorial: As themes go, this issue's is, if nothing else, topical. Hillary Clinton's whole campaign in the run up to the presidential nomination will live or die on the basis …
Posted in ESSAYS
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Moses Iten Reviews Paul Hardacre, Terry Jaensch and Cyril Wong
Although Love in the place of rats and Excess Baggage and Claim – both published by the independent Melbournian press transit lounge – arrived in the mail together, it was the disquieting title of Paul Hardacre's second poetry collection that grabbed me first.
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Tagged Cyril Wong, Moses Iten, paul hardacre, Terry Jaensch
Calling Home
Terry Jaensch was poetry editor of Cordite for issues 12-15.
Posted in 23: EDITORIAL INTERVENTION
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