Issue 37 (April 2009): the exotic

[Cover image: Ben Ou, "One Tree Hill" (2007)]

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Editor: Michael Arnold
Number 37 - the exotic (April 2009):

NB: The complete text of brief #37 is available here to download or purchase:

Ted Jenner / Spinning A Soft Endless Web / 2
Mike Johnson / Commuting to Waiheke / 8
Jack Ross / In Love with the Chinese Novel / 10
Will Christie / Clotho on the Dancefloor - Wingettes / 29
K M Ross / Venusian Transit / 32
Nathan MacGregor / For Don / 39
Scott Hamilton / Shooting the Gods - To Wiremu Tamihana / 41
Hamish Dewe / Shanghai - Eleven / 48
John Geraets / Igatpuri, Dhamma Giri / 50
E Goodman & W Ao / Translations of New Chinese Poetry / 52
Uddipana Goswami / Mother Goddess Kamakhya / 54
Michael Arnold / thrall / 59
David Lyndon Brown / White Room / 64
Rogelio Guedea / from Free Fall (Tr. Peter Broad and Sandra Merill) 70
Doc Drumheller / How to Tie a Knot Around the World / 73
Janet Charman / Who do you See? / 74
Brett Cross / Jerusalem - return / 76
Michael Steven / Six Poems by Samuel Beckett / 78
William Direen / 14.2-19.2 - Sam Johnson and the Widow / 80
Richard von Sturmer / from Fabulae / 82
Richard Taylor / from Eyelight / 84
Graeme Perrin / Saltworks (extract) 9th work - Down South (i) / 88
Brenda Ann Burke / Shift ending / 89
Janis Freegard / Coleoptera / 90
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán / Honig / 91
Alex Wild Jespersen / from The Constant Losers / 92
Gabriel White / Alphaghetti - The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis / 96
Notes on Contributors / 115

Issue 36 (September 2008): The NZ Music Issue

[Cover image: Sherry Hamid]

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Editors: Brett Cross & Bill Direen
Number 36 - The NZ Music Issue (September 2008):

Manifesta of (dys-)organised sound / 3
Brief CD track list / 6
Antony Milton / PseudoArcana / 7
Will Christie / Exclaimants / 16
Bill Pitt / Aranda Snow, Village, End / 19
Jen Crawford / ALBUMBLATT / 23
Scott Hamilton / Te Kakano Information Centre, Tuwhare / 24
Owen Bullock / Song for X / 28
Michael Steven / Silver Paint, Custody / 29
Jack Ross / Extract from EMO / 31
Ted Jenner / PROPERTIUS 2.11 / 41
Phoebe Smith / Duckpond / 42
Olivia Macassey / Persephone / 44
Richard Taylor / Eyelight / 46
William Direen / An Interview with a Dunedin Artist / 65
Richard von Sturmer / Plague Days, Bus Notes / 66
Iain Britton / Hiroshima and Freely do I Sing / 81
K. M. Ross / The Clay Monster / 83
Harvey Molloy / Il est Minuit / 87
George Henderson / My Spunky Little Friend, or, the Suburban Sub-Umbra, The Nerve, The old songbook, The Last Original Song / 88
David Lyndon Brown / Cavafy's Shoes, Lost Fragments from the Thief's Journal / 96
Bill Direen / Twelve Songs from a Berlin Experience / 101

Reviews:

Ted Jenner / Papyri by Jack Ross / 111
Jack Ross/ Climbing off the Barricades: Review of Dream Boat: Selected Poems, by Tony Beyer & A Good Handful ed. Stu Bagby / 114
Scott Hamilton / Seeking 'a different reality principle': Review of The Rotten Elements by Edward Upward / 119

Brief #36 CD:

1. Antony Milton - A Brief Tenure
2. Bill D & Thom G'Shrey - Birds & Telephones
3. Chris Matthews - O My Soul
4. Scott Hamilton & Bill D & S. Porter
5. Mary Heney (+SEP) - Shade
6. Greg Cairns - Actually I Have to Take that Picture Down (NB Common Attribution)
7. J. Ross + P. Fischlinger - The Cat
8. Will Christie - Animals
9. Jacques ReBrellion - Madeleine
10. Aural Disclosures - Split Stick
11. Frances Direen - Untitled
12. Gjoko Mohabihr - Alas Glas
13. S. Porter & Bill D - Sunday Mix
14. Mercator's Map - Kieran Monaghan
15. Cookie Brooklyn - Untitled
16. Sponge - Moon in the Moog
17. Miles Mina - Mashin'
18. Geoff Harrington - Untitled
19. Padmanabha Fischlinger - Untitled
20. D. L. Brown - from Marked Men
21. Marineville - Here I am
22. Bill Pitt - Native Poet
23. R. Taylor - The Things Smiling
24. Bobs for Jobs - Vaut Rien
25. Magnetic Pain - Sold in China
26. Dora Dandolo - play
27. S. Porter - Word In Your Ear

Issue 35 (September 2007): A brief world order

[Cover image: Matt Kelly]

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Editor: Brett Cross
Number 35 - A brief world order (September 2007):

Editorial Committee: Scott Hamilton, Jack Ross, Brett Cross, Claudia Westmoreland, Richard Taylor, Todd Keedwell, William Direen.

NB: The complete text of brief #35 is available here as a pdf:

Scott Hamilton / Franklin District Field Trips; Dream / 4
Olivia Macassey / The Internal Eel; The reflecting pool; Dissent / 9
Jack Ross / The Purloined Letter / 14
Will Christie / Bolt; The Old Story / 34
Michael Steven / Anthology; Brutes; Aubade / 38
Nathan MacGregor / Drawings / 41, 59
Sally McIntyre / Jeanne d’Arc; stations / 42
Jen Crawford / bad appendix / 50
Alex von Huhen / the poem / 57
Mario Melendez / Black Symphony; The Daughter of Rimbaud / 58
Olwyn Stewart/Paul Amlehn / I write these despicable lines / 60
Richard Taylor / from The Infinite Poem; Untitled / 61
Nathan MacGregor / Wolf Moon Rising / 64
Bill Direen / Written out of existence / 66
Richard von Sturmer / This World (and None Other) / 69
Michael Morrissey / Reading about Poland / 75
Brett Cross / senses scattered; through a window / 76
David Lyndon Brown / Decompression / 78
K. M. Ross / Te lka / 83
Henry Talbot / Sunshine / 88
Ted Jenner / Impressions of Africa / 91
Hamish Dewe / Sydney; remains / 92
Michael Arnold / Perspire / 95

Reviews:

William Direen / Falling Through the Architect by K. M. Ross / 102
Olivia Macassey / Free Range Poems; ed. Miriam Barr / 104
Dr Deidre Brown / The Fellowship: exhibition by Ellen Portch / 106
Will Christie / Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Olivia Macassey / 114
Michael Steven / To the Moon, In Seven Easy Steps by Scott Hamilton / 117
K.M. Ross / Song of the Brakeman by Bill Direen / 120
Scott Hamilton / To Terezin by Jack Ross / 122
Olwyn Stewart / Bill Direen / Marked Men by David Lyndon Brown / 126
Contributors /128

Issue 34 (February 2007): war

[Cover images Ellen Portch]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Number 34 - war (February 2007):

Editor Emeritus: C. K. Stead
Editorial Committee: Scott Hamilton, Jack Ross, Brett Cross, Claudia Westmoreland, Richard Taylor, Sanjay Wells.

[brief #34 is dedicated to Leicester Kyle.]

NB: The first 30 pages of brief #34 are available here as a pdf:

Anonymous / Leaflet distributed at Whenuapai Air Base in February 2003 / 4
Jack Ross / For Leicester Hugo Kyle / 6
Scott Hamilton / More than Pain: Leicester Kyle 1937-2006 / 12
Richard Taylor / Leicester Kyle (Friend, poet, and scientist) / 19
Pete Lusk / Leicester on the Coast / 25
Leicester Kyle / Three Poems / 27
Vincent O’Sullivan / Homecoming / 30
Don Franks / Response to Vincent O’Sullivan / 31
Stephen Oliver / O Say Can You Hear? / 32
Charles Bernstein / It’s 8:23 in New York / 34
Ron Silliman / What is to be Done / 40
Barrett Watten / What is to be criticized / 46
Barrett Watten / War = Language / 53
Olivia Macassey / Two Poems / 55
Brenda-Ann Burke / Participant Observer / 59
Brett Cross / 20th century/heist / 60
Alan Marshall / Where did all those years go? / 61
Kathryn Dudding / The Return / 62
Richard von Sturmer / Old Ezra / 70
Kendrick Smithyman / Three War Poems / 76
Bill Direen / Misery / 83
Scott Hamilton / Private Gurney / 84
Greville Texidor and Evelyn M Hulse / San Toni / 85
Bill Direen / Rights of the Unknown Writer / 110
Sugu Pillay / 9/11 and Me / 113
K. M. Ross / The Art of. .. / 116
Michael Arnold / /cities.33 / 120
Stacey Arnold / Divya / 155
Richard Taylor / The Policeman Still Has Two / 156
Hamish Dewe / [untitled notes] / 159
Martyn Sanderson / Transport / 162
Jen Crawford / Primary School, Port Kembla / 163
Henry Talbot / Native / 164
Marion Jones / Chest, Fence / 165
Ted Jenner / Pieces / 166
Scott Hamilton / Bill’s Telescope / 173
Scott Hamilton / From First to Fourth Gear / 178
Scott Hamilton / Rescuing the Typewriter / 182
Notes on Contributors / 186

Issue 33 (March 2006): exile and home

[Cover image: Anya Whitlock]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Number 33 - exile and home (March 2006):

Editor Emeritus: C. K. Stead
Editorial Committee: Scott Hamilton, Jack Ross, Brett Cross, Claudia Westmoreland, Richard Taylor.

[brief #33 is dedicated to Tama Poata, 1939-2005.]

Various Artists / Field Recording at Galbraith’s Alehouse / 4
Mark Young / Country of Origin / 8
John Geraets / Two Poems / 9
Richard von Sturmer / Walking / 11
Michael Arnold / Shenyang / 13
Bill Direen / Journal Entry on Repatriation / 19
Anya Whitlock / from Anya’s Sketchy Zine / 21
Owen Bullock / ‘Exile and Home’ / 23
Mike Love / Notes from Dunedin to Blenheim and Back / 25
Moira Clunie / from Child That Mind #4 / 27
Henry Talbot / Milk / 31
Will-Joy Christie / Two Poems / 38
Jill Chan / Prose Poems / 40
K. M. Ross / Exile and the Wolf / 41
Leicester Kyle / A Letter from Buller / 44
Mark Young / Exile and the Middle Kingdom / 46
Hamish Dewe / Poems from Onehunga-on-the-Yangtze / 48
Scott Hamilton / Three Philosophical Defences / 50
Richard Taylor / The Panmure Tavern Songbook / 54
Frank Pervan / To Ron Riddell / 59
Richard Taylor / A Refusal to Explicate Te Kopuru / 63
Jack Ross / Smithyman Goes Online / 60
Kendrick Smithyman / Te Kopuru / 66
Kathryn Dudding / This is not a Family Photo Album / 75
Robert McLean / A Review of Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Speech! Speech!’ / 76
Peter Crisp / Ikons & Afterglow / 77
Martin Sanderson and Wanjiku Kiarie / From Oxford to Waimaramara / 84
Brett Cross / Entrances / 105
Jack Ross / From the Twilight Kingdom / 106
Jessica Le Bas / the angel/nurse / 109
Nathan MacGregor / Pages from a Journal / 110
Tracey Johnson / Deconstructing the Pakeha Gaze: Whale Rider / 115
Kendrick Smithyman / Haworth Parsonage / 120
Dave Bedggood / A Modem Greek Tragedy / 122
Nicholas Reid / Ill-Clothed But Widely Read / 128
Andreas Bulow / Culture and Revolution in Venezuela / 131
Raewyn Alexander / unuttered words are dark sideboards of china / 133
Siobhan Harvey / How To Survive Election Night / 134
May lremonger / they say that ... / 135
Brenda Ann Burke / Detachments / 136
Sam Bracanov / Two Statements / 137
Jack Ross / Ancestral Voices (part one) / 139
Notes on Contributors / 149

Issue 32 (May 2005): Joanna Margaret Paul

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 32 – Joanna Margaret Paul (May 2005):

Joanna Margaret Paul / “Beta Street” (1981) / front cover
Joanna Margaret Paul / “Inventories;” “Inventories (bedroom);” “Inventories VI (living)” (1977) / inside back cover
Jack Ross / Editorial: i.m. Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003) / 3-4
Joanna Margaret Paul / Illustrations from “Rooms and Episodes” / 5, 12, 33 & 119
Joanna Margaret Paul / A Passionate Pilgrimage in Time / 6-12
Hamish Dewe / Parting Closure: Imogen and Unwrapping the Body / 13-32
Joanna Margaret Paul / Rooms and Episodes: 1 – Album / 34-41
Joanna Margaret Paul / from Rooms and Episodes: 2 – Written at St Omer / 42-55
Bernadette Hall / Bread for Isaiah / 56-60
Leicester Kyle / Peninsula Days / 61-64
Joanna Margaret Paul / from Songs of Seven Seasons / 65-84
Hamish Dewe / Blessings on Morandi / 85
Bernard Gadd / Christ Carrying the Cross / 86
Paula Green / Afternoon tea with Joanna P / 87-88
David Howard / Joanna Paul at Wanganui / 89
Scott Hamilton / The Five Lives of Donald Crowhurst / 90-94
Jack Ross / Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) / 95-98
William Direen / Expatriation (non)-conclusions / 99
John O’Connor / Haiku: Public Health Warning / 100-102
Jack Ross / Reviews: Brian Bell; Alan Brunton; Sue Fitchett;
Michael Harlow, Anne Kennedy; Michele Leggott; C. K. Stead / 103-107
Paula Green / Kendrick Smithyman: Campana to Montale / 108-112
David Howard / Call for Material: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie / 112
Richard Taylor / Class 4AcA, Tamaki College (1963) / 113
Brett Cross / New Novellas from Titus Books / 114
Scott Hamilton / Jack Ross: Monkey Miss her Now / 115-119
Contributor Notes / 120

Issue 31 (October 2004): Kultur

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 31 – Kultur (October 2004):

Editorial: brief goes political … / 3 & 5-6
Matthew Kelly / Collin the Animal / 4
Riemke Ensing / snips / 7-11
Ahmed Zaoui (trans. Riemke Ensing et al.) / He will come back … (5 versions) / 12-21
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Walking the crooked line / 22-23
Mark Young & Martin Edmond / Q & A / 24-36
Mark Young / The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even / 37
Ted Jenner / A Miller’s Chaff: Malawi 2002-2004 / 38-44
Scott Hamilton / The Man in the Panama Hat/ 45-49
Hamish Dewe / Two Poems / 50
Scott Hamilton & Hamish Dewe / Opening the Green Door/ 51-57
Ricci van Elburg / Lucebert / 58-71
Mark Pirie / More Sonnets to Spam / 72-75
Jack Ross / Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown / 76-79
K. M. Ross / Out and Out / 80-82
Leicester Kyle / Death of a Landscape / 83-92
Harvey McQueen / Reading Howe’s The Quest for Origin … / 93-94
Doc Drumheller / Confessions of a Post-humous author / 95
Janet Wilson / Alan Duff: Brown Man’s Burden / 96-105
Richard von Sturmer / While You’re Away / 106-109
Basim Furat / 1 March 1967 / 110-113
Ahmed Zaoui / Letter / 114
Doc Drumheller/ Letter / 115
John Macnamara / Letter / 116-17
Niel Wright / Letter / 118
Contributor Notes / 119-20