Issue 51 (September 2014)

[cover image: Alex Wild]

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Editor: Alex Wild
Number 51 (September 2014]):

Alex Wild / Editorial: The Outer Link / 3
Kelly Malone / nanny's place / 4
Jack Ross / Leaving Town / 5
Sze Ning Ooi / Blind Date with Tabucchi / 6
Richard Taylor / Transport, Machines, Links and "Chains" / 7
Samuel Carey / Experiments in the Necropastoral / 14
Daniel Larsen / Te Puna o te Ao Marama - Prayer to the Archangel Michael / 17
Vaughan Rapatahana / blocked - last hill in matakaoa - leaving hong kong - sloop of discourse - so the snide sky / 22
Richard von Sturmer / This Explains everything / 28
Angela Chirnside & Paula Booker / Naomi Yang's Right Ear / 38
Chris Holdaway / Entrance, entrance - To no one travels / 41
Doc Drumheller / The Lollipop Man - The Hagley Hub / 45
Florence Wild / Albatross -- how I get around / 47
[L. E. Scott / Greetings / 52]
Bella Horlor / Junk / 53
Ross Brighton / SINGULAR-MONAD-COVENANT-GODHEAD / 75
Richard Taylor / Transport, Machines, Links and "Chains" part 2 / 77
A. Rankin / untitled / 85
Schaeffer Lemalu / untitled / 90
Lisa Samuels / Commute - A walk in the park / 95
Keith Nunes / disturbed - Lady Unprecedented / 98
Kate Davis / The Tale Wagging the Dog / 100
Laura McLauchlan / The Back Neighbours Backyard / 108
Makyla Curtis / Mother / 109
Richard Taylor / Transport, Machines, Links and "Chains" part 3 / 112
Scott Hamilton / i.m. Keith Douglas - A Short History of Russian Cosmism / 118

Notes on contributors / 122

Issue 50 (February 2014)

[Front cover image: NZ Herald (26/3/87)]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 50 (February [March] 2014]):

Jack Ross / Editorial: Misha’s Project / 3
Tracey Slaughter / 31 reasons not to hear a heartbeat / 6
Bronwyn Lloyd / from A Slow Alphabet / 21
Keith Nunes / Harry’s wife – The Cold Up Here / 31
Ted Jenner / from Lonely Hearts / 33
Janet Newman / Skywreck / 38
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle / from Autobiography of a Marguerite / 39
Laura McLauchlan / Cow / 42
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán / Mint – Post / 43
Iain Britton / ezra pound in parenthesis / 53
Doc Drumheller / from 10 x (10 + -10) = 0 / 56
Kristy Lagarto / Blank Slate / 59
Richard Taylor / The Secret of Being Unpopular / 61
Nick Monks / Postcard from Wigan, (Lancashire, UK) / 74
K. M. Ross / from The Blinding Walk / 75
Josh Goodwin / from tararu cemetery / 94
Naomi Richards / Paper-chase / 96
Lisa Samuels / Syllabus / 101
L. E. Scott / Blues x 5 – Room without a View / 105
Vaughan Rapatahana / nihil unbound / 108
Anne Ross / Christmas Card / 109
Richard von Sturmer / This Explains Everything / 110
David Taylor / All things being equal / 120
Tracey Slaughter / The Box of Phantoms / 122

Reviews:

Ted Jenner: Heraclitus Pseudoscientificus?: Review of Futa Helu, Herakleitos of Ephesos, ’Atenisi University, Tonga, 2nd (facsimile) edition, 2012. / 138
Vaughan Rapatahana: Review of Waiheathens by Mark Derby, with paintings by Bob Kerr (Atuanui Press, Aotearoa-New Zealand, 2012) / 148
Jack Ross: Reviews in brief: Lisa Samuels, Wild Dialectics (Bristol: Shearsman Books Ltd., 2012) / Richard von Sturmer, Book of Equanimity Verses (Auckland: Puriri Press, 2013) / 152
Notes on contributors / 157

Issue 49 (September 2013)

[Front cover image: Richard Taylor]

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Editor: Brett Cross
Number 49 (September 2013]):

Richard Taylor / from What we have been reading / 3
Olivia Macassey / Death of Hoskuld / Death of Bird / About that Monk / 31
Ted Jenner / And now in this late afternoon ... / 36
Jen Crawford / from soft shroud / 37
Scott Hamilton / from Fakapikopiko: a Tongan Journal / 49
Stephanie Christie / grace notes / Revelations / 56
Jack Ross / 3 Mayan Poems / 60
Thomas Pors Koed / Home Run / 66
John Geraets / from Quite little ones / 80
Alex Wild / The Final or The Semi-Final or Something / 86
Erin Doyle / How to break eggs / 93
Kate Davis / Point and Shoot / 95
Jane Simpson / the desert is / 102
Analeese Jochems / i saw the first dick i ever saw / 103
Janet Newman / Europa / Green Cathedral / 104
Nina Su Noong / Mundane endeavours / 109

REFLECTING ON BRIEF
Alex Wild / News in brief / 113

REVIEWS
Murray Edmond / "live": A Review of Lisa Samuels' Anti M / 118
Angela Chirnside / Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker / 126
Jack Ross / Confessions of an Unrepentant Anthologist / 129
Richard Taylor / Toa by Vaughan Rapatahana / 146

CONTRIBUTORS / 152

Issue 48 (June 2013): The Ballad of Rue Belliard

[Cover photo: Owen Slatraigh / Cover Design: Ellen Portch]

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Editor: Brett Cross
Number 48 (June 2013):

Brett Cross / Editorial / [1]
Guillaume Direen / The Ballad of Rue Belliard / 3

Issue 47 (April 2012): The Mid City Arcade Project

[Front cover image: Eli Orzesseck]

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Editor: Alex Wild
Number 47 (March 2013 [April 2013]):

Alex Wild / Editor's Note / 2
Greg Kan / surface runoff / 3
Bronwyn Lloyd / A preposition shows relation / 8
Rachel J. Fenton / Songs from a Room / 10
Stefan Neville & Clayton Noone / from "City of Tales" / 16 / 37 / 68 / 89 / 119
Cameron Matamua / "traffic" / 17
Ben Daniels / Whatever You'd Call It / 18
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran / Du Bois before Accra - honey and vinegar/my first butch / 26
Margaret Howie / The Knot / 28
Vinay Hira / Nicholas / 29
Lisa Samuels / Group Hug / 30
Jack Ross / from "the Jay Poems" / 32
Cat Matteson / Glen Has No Soul ... / 38
Angela Chirnside / Just Desserts / 43
Paul Janman / Tokyo Summer drunk - Two Auckland Anthems / 46
Michael Steven / The Panel Shop / 49
Sze Ning Ooi / Memories of a Prawn / 52
Jessica Hansell / Supermarket Sex Poem / 55
Daniel M. Satele / My Sculpture, Strong Spirit / 56
Daniel Larsen / Two Pages to Forget / 60
Ted Jenner / Plato's Academy / 61
Vaughan Rapatahana / macau on a tuesday - Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa - trapped in manila, / 69
Naomi Richards / Mrs. Mossaidis Flies through the Air / 74
Dan Hedges / Poems / 81
Joanna Grochowicz / Estelle: Life Since I Lost My Job / 83
Maryann Savage / If Thou Longst so Much to Learne / 90
Scott Hamilton / Seven Urban Legends / 95
Julie Helean / Night Shift / 99
John Geraets / Quite little ones - In Other Places / 106
Melissa Steiner / Journey in the Dark / 122
Vanessa Berry / Treasure Map / 126
Miriam Barr / Out the World - Grid block / 128
Jen Crawford / on Celanie / 130
Brett Cross / apple eye / 132
Gareth John Brighton / Thank You For Keeping Me Safe / 133
Notes on Contributors / 134

[Back cover image: Eli Orzesseck]

Issue 46 (November 2012): The Survival Issue

[Front cover image: Grant Banbury, “Untitled photo-postcard:
vacant lot, Colombo Street, Sydenham, Christchurch" (c. June 2011)]

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Editor: Bronwyn Lloyd
Number 46 - Survival (November 2012):

Bronwyn Lloyd / Editorial / 3
Michele Leggott / a brief history of time / 5
Jennifer Compton / from Ungainly / 8
Richard von Sturmer / from the Notebooks of Hector Velasco / 11
Ted Jenner / Lonely Hearts / 17
Bernadette Hall / How they ran into each other again at the Old Girls' Reunion / 21
Richard Taylor / Ongoing Story I-III / 24
Anne Ross / Three fragments / 27
Libby Brickell / Invisibility / 34
Alison Glenny / The Red Flower / 35
Naomi Richards / Ocean Songs / 38
Kelly Malone / crafting tension between lyric and narrative / line of the signs / 44
Doc Drumheller / The Republic of Oma Rapeti / 47
Isabel Michell / Go Home Stay Home / 48
Rachel O'Neill / Finder of the Furthest Galaxy / 61
Michael Morrissey / Landing on the Moon / 62
Stu Bagby / Day 15 / 69
Bernadette Hall / Door / 76
Leicester Kyle / Diary of a Country Cop / 78
Vaughan Rapatahana / he whatinga / 84
Jack Ross / Interpreting Paul Celan / 85
Barry Moffatt / transparencies III / 102
Kate Davis / Aimee / 106
Iain Britton / the list / 114
Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway / Arrival or Departure / 118
Martin Edmond / from Eternities / 119
L. E. Scott / Broomstick / Realisation / 131
K. M. Ross / The Last Great Road Race / 133
Vaughan Rapatahana / jacky marmon / 140
Scott Hamilton / Review of Fallen Empire, a collaboration between Jack Ross and MOTH / 142
Isabel Michell / Review of Bronwyn Lloyd's The Second Location / 149
Notes on Contributors / 151

[Rear cover image: Grant Banbury, “photo-postcard"]

Issue 44/45 (May 2012): Oceania

[Front cover image: Scott Hamilton]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Numbers 44 & 45 - Oceania (April 2012 [May 2012]):

Cover Photo: Scott Hamilton / Cover Design: Brett Cross
Scott Hamilton / Editor’s Note - Never Mind the Frangipani / 2
Futa Helu / Letter to the New Zealand Herald / 5
Vaughan Rapatahana / An Interview and Three Poems / 6
Murray Edmond / The Steps Towards ‘Von Tempsky’s Dance’ / 12
Leicester Kyle / The Life / 19
’Okusitino Mahina / An Essay and Two Poems / 21
Scott Hamilton / The Island of Exiles / 26
John McCaffery & Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery / Complaint to the Human Rights Commission / 36
Sarah Bogle / My Kin is the Dirt / 41
Andrew Dean / An Interview and an Essay / 42
Michael Morrissey / Between Two Pacific Islands / 49
Kendrick Smithyman / Three Poems / 52
Jack Ross / The Great White Silence / 56
Rachel Fenton / A Poem. and a Note about the Barnsley dialect / 77
Marty Mars / Two Poems / 79
Giovanni Tiso / Six Inches to a Mile / 80
Stephanie Christie / Niue / 84
VO Blum / An Interview and an Excerpt from DownMind / 86
Hamish Dewe / ‘This fortnight the evenings ...’ / 95
Naomi Richards / Talofa Miss Brown / 96
Richard Taylor / from Eyelight / 100
Iain Britton / profile of a yellow circle / 104
Vaughan Rapatahana / Two Visits to Nauru / 106
Rogelio Guedea / Timeline (Tr. Megan Saltzman) / 115
Alex Wild / from “There is No War Here” / 120
Ted Jenner / The Arrow that Missed / 126
Denys Trussell / A Letter and a Poem / 128
Futa Helu / The Fakatangi (from the Tongan Poetry series) / 130
Mark Derby / An Interview and an Essay / 133
Lisa Samuels / Nervous Water / 149
Brett Cross / A Note and a Poem about the Kaipara / 152
Dave Bedggood & Owen Gager / from Towards a Socialist Polynesia / 156
Leicester Kyle / Bridge to the Sea / 165
Michael Amold / from Cashlin (Shape) / 166
Paul Janman / The I Ching in the Eye of ’Atenisi Realism / 169
George Griffith / from Outlaws of the Air / 184
Reviews & Notes / 186
Scott Hamilton / Boarding Paul Janman’s Tongan Ark / 187
" / Tapu, Pigs, and Power; Discussing Tongan Ark / 193
" / A Preliminary Report on the End of the World / 198
Jack Ross / Leicester Kyle’s Koroneho / 206
Dougal McNeil / In the Gap / 208
Scott Hamilton / Alex Wild, Blogging, and the Curse of Coolness / 213
Anne Amundsen / Lost: a Literary Treasure, Last Seen in Tonga / 217
Scott Hamilton / The Kids are Alright / 219
Tim Bowron / A Communication / 222
Vaughan Rapatahana / Announcing the Publication of English Language as Hydra / 223
Richard von Sturmer / Message / 226
Notes on Contributors / 227