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

Issue 30 (October 2004): Kunst

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 30 – Kunst (October 2004):

Jack Ross / Editorial: WARUM die KUNST? / 3-4
Olivia Macassey / Chinchillas … / 4, 8, 12, 27, 35, 41, 64, 81, 97
Matty K / Batfish / 5
Tania Brady / Here Sleeps the Appetite / 6
Iain Britton / Touched by a Celestial Digit / 7-8
Jill Chan / Documenting Weakness / 9
Will Joy Christie / Logo[cent] / 10-11
Emily Dobson / Photography night class / 13-14
Doc Drumheller / Two palindromes from: 10 x (10 + -10) = 0 / 15
Grant Duncan / Passing Away / 17-20
Martin Edmond / from Luca Antara / 21-26
Jan Fitzgerald / Te Puna / 27
John Geraets / Modals; Extensives / 28-33
Scott Hamilton / My Back Pages / 34
David Hornblow / post modern girl / 35
David Howard & Kim Pieters / The Harrier Suite / 36-41
Jan Kemp / The Cook, the ‘Consul’ & the Crazyman / 42-61
Gyorgy Kostritsky / from 100 Days / 62-63
Mike Love / At the gates of conscious; construction zone / 65-66
David Loving-Molloy / Three recent poems / 67
Olivia Macassey / You Are My Sunshine / 68-69
Theresia Liemlienio Marshall / harbour-bridging / 70
Gregory O’Brien / Guide to Provençal Usage / 71-77
Stephen Oliver / Containing a broken column; Industrial tableau / 78-79
Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway / Roman Numerals / 80-81
Sugu Pillay / Tradition & the Poet II / 82-87
Jack Ross / Days Under Water / 88-91
K. M. Ross / Tripping / 92-95
Anna Rugis / Four Poems / 96-97
Richard Taylor / from Hospital / 98-108
Jack Ross / Reviews: Murray Edmond & Joanna Forsberg; Harvey McQueen;
Basim Furat; Guyon Neutze & Jürgen Waibel; Mark Pirie; Niel Wright / 109-11
Brett Cross / Owen Bullock; Moshé Liba; Stephen Oliver/ 112-13
Brett Cross / Notice: William Direen, Jules / 114
Jack Ross / William Direen: Jules / 115
Michele Leggott & Sally Rodwell / Notice: Alan Brunton, Grooves of Glory / 116
Siobhan Harvey / Paula Green: Crosswinds & Sonja Yelich: Clung / 117-18
Contributor Notes / 119-20

Issue 29 (March 2004): more fun than you've ever seen

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 29 - more fun than you've ever seen (March 2004):

John Macnamara / portrait of the artist threatened by his breakfast / front cover
John Macnamara / The Marquis de Blok-ma exhibits at the Salon Merde / inside front cover
John Macnamara / Adam and Eve hiding from the Angel / inside back cover
Jack Ross/ Editorial: The Secrets behind my Smile … / 3-4
May Iremonger / Whaha mana hinanga / 5
Michele Leggott / Cairo Vessel / 6-12
Alan Brunton / Symbols of the Unconquered; In Cali / 13-15
Janet Charman / fish and chips / 16-18
Olivia Macassey / love in the age of mechanical reproduction: 1 / 19-20
Will Joy Christie / Arrest station; Negauche / 21-22
Lorraine West / The Inorganic Collection / 23
Kathryn Dudding / from H. H. tries to find for each thing its real place / 24-25
Mark Pirie / Sonnets to Spam; After Bataille / 26-27
Raewyn Alexander / some man’s angels; i’m not the kind of woman / 28-29
Mark Young / The Armory Show / 30-31
Paul Hardacre / the shower-curtain you / 32
Martin Edmond / from Luca Antara / 33-41
Janice M. Bostok / The Edwin Fox / 42
Jan Kemp / The past present/s / 43-44
Bernard Gadd / Sketch / 45
Doc Drumheller / Adoxographi / 46
David Edwards / from Overgrowth / 47-50
Brentley Frazer / The Assumption … / 51
David Howard / Overburden / 52
K. M. Ross / Sun’s Lid / 53-56
Leicester Kyle / Spawning Galaxis / 57
Owen Bullock / 22 / 58-59
Richard Taylor / re: brief submissions etc / 60-61
Jack Ross / Postcards / 62-65
Scott Hamilton / Five Poems / 66-67
Michael Arnold / What Poets Should Know About Chinese / 68-69
Hamish Dewe /Bad Faith / 70
Richard von Sturmer / Fits and Starts / 71-78
Mary Cresswell / Figure 3a / 79
May Iremonger / all hot air / 80
Jack Ross / Reviews: Paul Hardacre; Howard & Pardington; Anne Kennedy; Graham Lindsay; O’Connor & Mould; Alistair Paterson; Mark Pirie; John Pule / 81-84
Janet Wilson / Review: Jackson: Catullus for Children & Kassabova: Someone Else’s Life / 85-86
Michael Shield / Review: Mason: Four Short Stories & Duggan: A Voice for the Minotaur / 87-88
Scott Hamilton / Review: Tom Raworth: Collected Poems / 89-92
Theresia Liemlienio Marshall / Review: Paul Sharrad, Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature / 93-100
Contributor Notes / 101-102

Issue 28 (October 2003): Alan Brunton

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 28 – Alan Brunton (October 2003):

Joe Wylie / Stairway to the Stars (1977) / inside front cover
Ian Prior / The Last Days of Mankind (1979) / inside back cover
Jack Ross / Editorial: In the Spirit of Crazy Horse / 3-4
Richard Killeen / Excursion poster / 5
Sally Rodwell / Excursion Production images / 6, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 25
Alan Brunton / The Excursion / 7-24
Michele Leggott / ‘An Egyptian day for the mandarin’: The Excursion 1982/2001 / 26
Murray Edmond / The Excursion, New York 1982 / 27-28
Alan Brunton / Their Diet Consists of Carrion / 29-33
Richard Killeen / New Hope poster / 34
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Know So / 35-39 [+ 2]
Martin Edmond, Michele Leggott & Sally Rodwell / Bumper Books checklist / 40-41
Michael O’Leary & Alan Brunton / Answers to the Small Press Questionnaire / 42-43
Chris Bourke / The Commissioner for Enlightenment: AB talks to CB / 44-57
Alan Brunton / Contributions to Raucous 65 & 66 / 58-60
Martin Edmond / Lighting out for the Territory / 61-76
Barry Linton / Red Mole posters / 77 & 82
Peter Simpson / Fq: Roadman’s last Quest / 78-83
Scott Hamilton & Claudia Westmoreland / Alan Brunton and the Counterculture /84-89
Richard Taylor / On Moonshine / 90-92
Mark Pirie / Alan Brunton as Publisher; The Day A.B. died; Flâneur / 93-96
Stephen Oliver / One Night at the Duke, c.1969 / 97-98
Steve Dean / “4ab”; / 99
Ron Riddell / In El Teatro Exfanfarria / 100
Mark Young / December 6, 2002 / 101-02
Michele Leggott / I dreamed your book was written and the great So praised it / 103-04
Richard von Sturmer / Great Barrier Notes; Barrier Crossings / 105-15
Jack Ross / Review: F**k you, Faerie Queene – Alan Brunton’s Fq / 116-22
Contributor Notes / 123-24

Issue 27 (June 2003): season of the remakes

[Cover : “Vet Cemetary,” by Matt Kelly]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 27 - season of the remakes (June 2003):

May Iremonger / Endpapers
Jack Ross / Editorial / 3-4
Michael Arnold / Two Poems / 5-6
Janet Charman / televisioner / 7-19
Will Joy Christie / Poetry from Black Lagoon / 20-21
Peter Crisp / About Time / 22-27
Hamish Dewe / Three Poems / 28-29
Doc Drumheller / N + 7 / 30-31
Martin Edmond / from Terminus Motel / 32-36
Tony Green / Accumulations, Walks & Broken Chain / 37-40
Scott Hamilton / To the Moon: in Seven Easy Steps / 41
Ian Harnett / Spam Spider Hack / 42-45
Ted Jenner / The Gold Leaves / 46-53
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Shrewd Move / 54
Leicester Kyle / On Birchfield Fen / 55-56
Harvey McQueen / A Nativity Week Leave Taking / 57-60
Theresia Liemlienio Marshall / yarn-spinning / 61-62
John O’Connor / The Orchid; Goblet / 63
Sugu Pillay / 1st January 2003 / 64
Mark Pirie / Two Poems – An Impression of the Sea / 65-70
Michael Radich / Prosaic Times; so-so / 71-73
Jack Ross / Anamorphoses / 74-76
K. M. Ross / Rambo; Dumped / 77-82
Kendrick Smithyman / Imitations of Neruda / 83-86
Richard Taylor / The enclosed “work” / 87-90
Richard von Sturmer / Sentient Dreams / 91-93
Lorraine West / The Yellow Room / 94-96
Peter Crisp / Letter / 97
Jack Ross / Review: Leicester Kyle, Five Anzac Liturgies / 98
Michael Shield / Review: Sugu Pillay, The Chandrasekhar Limit / 99-100
Olivia Macassey / Review: Jack Ross, Chantal’s Book / 101-102
Contributor Notes / 103-104

Issue 26 (January 2003): Smithymania

[Cover image: Michael Dean]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 26 - Smithymania (January 2003):

Jack Ross / Editorial / 3-4
Jack Ross / Kendrick Smithyman: A Chronology / 5-8
Jack Ross / Jack’s Hole / 9
Kendrick Smithyman / The Hole that Jack Dug / 10
Peter Simpson/ The Smithyman Papers: A Preliminary Description / 11-18
Kendrick Smithyman / Uncollected Northland Poems / 19-49
Michael Dean / Northern Portfolio / 21, 24, 30, 35, 40, 44, 48, 50
Scott Hamilton / Reading Kendrick Smithyman / 51-55
Jack Ross / The Firpo Essay / 56
Kendrick Smithyman / Beginnings, Golden Weathers, and Firpo / 57-74
Anna Jackson / Departmental Cats / 75
Heather McCann / Tale Telling and the Construction of Identity / 76-81
Grant Duncan / Hot God Speaks / 82
Mark Pirie / Kendrick Smithyman and Louis Johnson / 83-85
Bernard Gadd / Digging towards you / 86
Judith Binney / Conversations with Kendrick / 87-91
Jack Ross / Occasional Verses / 92
Kendrick Smithyman / Occasional Verses / 93
Theresia Marshall / Kendrick Smithyman / 94-100
Richard Taylor / Letter; from Chains (2) / 101-02
Margaret Edgcumbe (& Jack Ross) / Life with Kendrick / 103-09
Alexandra Smithyman / Kendrick Smithyman / 110-11
Michael Radich / Open letter to Jack Ross / 112-13
Ted Jenner / Letter / 114
Jack Ross / Review: Smithyman, Imperial Vistas Family Fictions / 115-116
Contributor Notes / 117-18