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This site exists in order to provide a conveniently accessible online index for the New Zealand literary journal brief, founded by Alan Loney in 1995, and carried on (under a succession of editors) until now.

No copyright works have been reproduced here, with the exception of covers and contents pages for the various publications produced by the Writers Group - brief's community of subscribers and contributors - over this period. Some of these works are available elsewhere on the internet, however, and hyperlinks to these locations have been provided wherever possible.

There are individual pages below for the contents of each issue, supplemented by an alphabetical index of the contributions of each author. A short history of brief has also been provided, with a selection of various of the statements and manifestos issued by its editors at different times, as well as a list of the books published to date by the magazine.

For up-to-date information on subscription rates, submission policies, and any other information relevant to the magazine, please consult the official Brief Website, or else write to the present managing editor, Michael Arnold, at the following address:
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Preface

Manifestos

Breakdown by Author

Breakdown by Issue:

[Cover image: Ellen Portch]

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Editor: Hamish Dewe

No 43, November 2011: 104 pp.

Editor: William (Bill) Direen

No 42, May 2011: 111 pp.

Editor: Richard von Sturmer

No 41, December 2010: 110 pp.

Editor: Ted Jenner

No 40, July 2010: 134 pp.

Editor: Michael Arnold

No 39, March 2010: 132 pp.

Editor: Jen Crawford

No 38, August 2009: 104 pp.

Editor: Michael Arnold

No 37 - the exotic, April 2009: 118 pp.

Editors: Brett Cross & Bill Direen

No 36 - The NZ Music Issue, September 2008: 126 pp.

Editor: Brett Cross

No 35 - a brief world order, September 2007: 132 pp.

Editor: Scott Hamilton

No.34 - war, February 2007: 188 pp.

No 33 - exile and home, March 2006: 150 pp.

Editor: Jack Ross

No 32 - Joanna Margaret Paul, May 2005: 120 pp.

No 31 - Kultur, October 2004: 120 pp.

No 30 - Kunst, October 2004: 120 pp.

No 29 - more fun than you've ever seen, March 2004: 102 pp.

No 28 - Alan Brunton, October 2003: 126 pp.

No 27 - season of the remakes, June 2003: 104 pp.

No 26 - Smithymania, January 2003: 118 pp.

No 25 - trains at a glance, October 2002: 111 pp.

No 24 - less formal than bull, July 2002: 84 pp.

Editor: John Geraets

No 23, March 2002: 100 pp.

No 22, December 2001: 100 pp.

No 21 - aesthetics, September 2001: 93 pp.

No 20 - aesthetics, June 2001: 68 pp.

No 19, March 2001: 80 pp.

No 18, December 2000: 100 pp.

A Brief Description of the Whole World

Ab.ww / Loney

No 17 - Loney, September 2000: 96 pp.

Ab.WW / AbdotWW

No 16, June 2000: 85 pp.

ABDOTWW / description

No 15, March 2000: 86 pp.

ABDOTWW

No 14, December 1999: 110 pp.

No 13, September 1999: 93 pp.

No 12, June 1999: Leigh Davis, Willy’s Gazette (1983): vii + 111 pp.

Editor: Alan Loney

Nos 10 & 11, October 1998: 47 pp.

No 9, April 1998: 55 pp.

No 8, December 1997: 76 pp.

No 7, September 1997: 66 pp.

No 6, July 1997: 56 pp.

No 5, May 1997: 58 pp.

No 4, November 1996: 82 pp.

No 3, June 1996: 67 pp.

No 2, March 1996: 52 pp.

No 1, December 1995: 70 pp.

[Cover Design: Alan Loney]

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[Cover Image: Will Maclean]

Books:

K. M. Ross. Falling Through the Architect. ISBN 0-476-01578-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, September 2005.

Kendrick Smithyman. Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian. Edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00382-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, October 2004.

Jack Ross. A brief index: A breakdown by issue & author of 7 years / 26 issues of brief, the magazine formerly known as: A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww / brief. &c., December 1995 – January 2003. ISSN 1175-9313. Auckland: The Writers Group, February 2003.
- --. Supplement 1. A breakdown by issue & author of 3 years / 7 issues of brief ... June 2003 – May 2005. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2005.

Sugu Pillay. The Chandrasekhar Limit and Other Stories. Auckland: The Writers Group, December 2002.

Alan Loney. Reading / Saying / Making: Selected Essays. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2001.

[Cover Design: Janet Hunt]

Issue 43 (November 2011)

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[Cover image: Ellen Portch, “untitled",
from the series Wall (2010)]

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Editor: Hamish Dewe
Number 43 (October 2011 [November 2011]):

Manon Revuelta / sleeve red of milken bees ... / 5
John Geraets / Poems - Stunning Debut: Willy's return / 6
Sarah Bogle / (Law school/ dichotomy / then smile) / 22
Scott Hamilton / Blackbirding - The Law of Equivalence - The Parachutist - Five Dreams - Osip - Invitation to a Stoning / 24
Richard von Sturmer / We Batten On / 38
Vaughan Rapatahana / ko mutu inaianei - no kai - Whetumatarau / 50
Stephanie Christie / Mindnight - An Argument / 55
Brett Cross / shadow / slink / 58
Lisa Samuels / from Life Sentence / 59
David Howard / Unemployment - Paperwork / 67
Iain Britton / in zambia / like elsewhere - & all that tactile stuff / 71
Ted Jenner / 'Wet traffic ghosting through the night' / 78
Giovanni Tiso / The Canto of Ulysses / 84
Bill Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton, or the Ballad of Rue Belliard (word 9692 to 10939) / 90
Jacques Coulardeau / Bill Direen: Devonport, A Diary, Esplanade / 96
Jen Crawford / Ahh - salt / 99
Notes on Contributors / 102

Issue 42 (May 2011)

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[Front cover image: Sandra Bianciardi, “Terre et ombre"]

brief
Editor: William Direen
Number 42 (March 2011 [May 2011]):

Sarah Bogle / 4 Poems / 3
Ted Jenner / from Genius Loci / 7
William Direen / On 1st looking into Lisa Samuels' Mama Mortality Corridos / 9
Greg Kan / 3 Poems / 13
Jennifer Compton / Against the Silences to Come / 14
Marion Jones / 4 Poems / 16
Franco Bianciardi / Couronne I - Crown I - Personne - No one / 18
Orchid Tierney / 4 Poems / 22
Janet Charman / on the sliding rack - i thought that visit would be - the anthology of women's poetry / 26
Richard von Sturmer / Crossing the Mind / 32
Vaughan Rapatahana / 4 Poems / 33
Andrea Quinlan / A History of Haarige / 38
Jack Ross / Johnsons or Shits: Mike Johnson's Travesty / 40
Nick Ascroft / The random infinite / 45
Michael Morrissey / The (My) House / 48
K. M. Ross / Ballad of the Kitchen Corner / 58
John Adams / Did you hear the snicker ... / 63
Pip Adam / Alan MacDiarmid Building / 64
Andrew Dean / Writing the South: Landfall, Baxter and Frame / 65
Paul Veart / In lieu of flowers - John Logan's Long Shadow / 70
Bill Direen / Two Paris Exhibitions / 79
Giovanni Tiso / Too Loud a Solitude: Bohumil Hrabal / 80
William Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton / 83
Mel Rands / 4 Texts / 85
Scott Hamilton / Crossing the Plains: a journey in twelve notes / 89
Jill Chan / After coming back from nowhere, / 96
Hamish Dewe / 9 Poems / 98
Mick Borrado / Turning Japanese / 103
Notes on Contributors / 109

[Rear cover image: Sherry Hamid, “Sonar Hunter"]

Issue 41 (December 2010)

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[Cover image: Richard von Sturmer, “Straps on Railway Freight Carriages"]

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Editor: Richard von Sturmer
Number 41 (November 2010 [December 2010]):

Richard von Sturmer / Editor's Note / 2
Simon Jackson / Question Mark - Apostrophe - The boy who didn't like bananas - 100 Years of the Poetry Society / 3
Marion Jones / Degrees of Whiteness - Sasha / 6
Andrea Quinlan / 2 Poems from Sedmikrásky /8
K. M. Ross / The Headless: Coleop / 10
Michael Harlow / Take five: composition for words and music - Short talk on a Sunday afternoon with John Cage - Daybook of thought-songs - Sweeping the courtyard / 14
Michael Farrell / thrills 2 - minimalism over two pages - simone de beauvoir / 19
Vaughan Rapatahana / no surface - pestilence - at Waikanae / 26
Iain Britton / Gestures - Apparitions - Punctured Experimental / 34
Lisa Samuels / Haptic radio / 42
Manon Revuelta / Meadowable - Voice, The - Re-veal / 45
Wystan Curnow / Altaussee / 48
Richard Taylor / again) - we did the Name Thing (when she was certain) / 50
Zarah McGunnigle / This would go on / 53
Jack Ross / Celanie: 5 Versions from Paul Celan / 54
Richard von Sturmer / Six Book of Equanimity Verses / 60
John Geraets / Extrapolations / 62
Michael Morrissey / 52 Questions in the Reel Life of a Stone Washed Man / 66
William Direen / Wednesday 9 / 74
Marty Blayney / Postrenku - Dust Pans / 78
Ngahuia Harrison / A Day of Visiting - Dirt / 80
Scott Hamilton / An Annotated Guide to Mungo National Park / 82
Dale Johnson / Permanent Change / 91

Reviews:

Roger Horrocks / Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life by Leigh Davis / 94
Elmar Ludwig / Kingdom of Alt by Jack Ross / 103
Notes on Contributors / 106

Issue 40 (July 2010)

2010-07-10T13:51:00.010+12:00

[Cover image: John Dickson & Ted Jenner, “After Hours Return"]

brief
Editor: Ted Jenner
Number 40 (June 2010 [July 2010]):

Ted Jenner / Editor's Note /2
Richard von Sturmer / Conversations with Clarice /4
Jack Ross / Memoirs from beyond the Grave - Badges - Sor Juana lnés de la Cruz /9
Richard Reeve / Uptake /14
Sugu Pillay / The Tree in its Setting - Lindis Pass /15
S. Nadja Zajdman / Nana / 17
Michael Morrissey / Pre-Posthumous Meditation on Keats /19
Murray Edmond / Ecstasy: A Short Film - The Animals of the Bed The Gates of Paradise /20
Vaughan Rapatahana / old Tom - from father through son to son / 24
Michael Estabrook / The Rumba with Patti - goats Oklahoma and frozen 30 candles - during the snowstorm - The Continuity of Life /30
Wystan Curnow / At the Hotel /33
William Direen / Hyperbaton or The Ballad of rue Belliard [ctd] /35
Michael Farrell / jill jones eyes - dear sincerely - cocoon /42
Michael Steven / Here, the Lovers - Blackburn's Last Strut /48
Anna Rugis / She tries to explain that thing she doesn't do Exploding the Myth - Shift – Humidity Marmalade Pudding /51
Hamish Dewe / Head Table - Auckland Star - 2009/56
Iain Britton / The Scarecrow /59
Ross Brighton / Birds /61
K. M. Ross / The Headless: Lucy /66
S. H. Hamilton / Twenty Theses Against Space and Time /70
Richard Taylor / Reading Things /80
Tony Green / lines from SKETCHES 59–61 /87
S. H. Hamilton / On the Island /90
Michael Harlow & Kit Powell / Devotion to the Small /98
Olivia Macassey / The Death of Porthos / 117

Reviews:

Ted Jenner / Enclosures by Bill Direen /119
Ted Jenner / The Tramconductor’s Blue Cap by Michael Harlow /123
Notes on Contributors / 131

[Cover image: Ted Jenner, "There We Go"]

Issue 39 (March 2010)

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[Cover image: Ellen Portch, "Green"]

brief
Editor: Michael Arnold
Number 39 (December 2009 [March 2010]):

Michael Arnold / Editor's Note / 2
K. M. Ross / Thrash / 3
Janet Charman / 'look behind you' / 10
William Direen / Hyperbaton [ctd.] / 16
Vaughan Rapatahana / Aotearoa blues, baby - Encounter - Rata villa, Ngawhatu - wharenui / 24
Jack Ross / from The Puppet Oresteia / 33
Janis Freegard / Speaking of the Balloonist / 43
Jennifer Compton / Bungundah Does Things A Little Differently / 45
John Parkyn / Night of the Elephants / 47
Marion Jones / Apparition / 58
Scott Hamilton / St. Joseph's - The Suicider - Self-criticism - The Inland Sea / 59
Richard Taylor / Cold Moving Coldness - It Would Be a Mistake Not to Rise / 68
Belinda Diepenheim / Lake Rotoiti / 71
Ted Jenner / Mandolin - motuihe midden / 74
Richard von Sturmer / Yes / 76
Sarah Jane Barnett / The Picnic - Greece - Contours / 80
Stephanie Christie / Electroeneephalographia / 82
Brett Cross / Latona / 87
David Lyndon Brown / Sugartown 7 a.m. - Te Henga - Florilegium - Under the Museum - On the Jetty / 94
Andrew Burke / If the World is thought - Linfen Morning - From The Centre Out / 100
Michael Estabrook / 5 Snapshots in the Rain / 108
Lisa Samuels / Envoi - Love story - adorno - from Tender Girl / 109

Reviews:

Richard Taylor / EMO by Jack Ross / 116
Ross Brighton / Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot by Kate Durbin / 122
Jen Crawford / Built, project. by Emma Phillipps - Wood by Jeanne Bernhardt / 124
Hamish Dewe / Free Fall by Rogelio Guedea / 127
Notes on Contributors / 130

Issue 38 (August 2009)

2009-09-26T10:24:00.007+12:00

[Cover image: Emma Smith, "Wolfwhistler" (2007)]

brief
Editor: Jen Crawford
Number 38 (August [September] 2009):

Wystan Curnow / Blue Tips / 4
Emma Phillipps / that we move from plastic / 5
Ross Brighton / Blue Light - Metallic / 7
Joseph Cahill-Lane / C a l i b u r n / 8
Mez Breeze / <----[inter]Sections-A+B-> / 17
Lisa Samuels / Coop / 18
Richard Taylor / Marchenbilder / 23
Martin Edmond / Dungog - Rorschach Tests for Trees / 24
Sarah Broom / Heat / 26
Rachel O'Neill / Embarking on her other names / 27
Mark Young / from Genji Monogatari / 30
Alison Glenny / Mandoline / 32
Gareth van Sambeek / from Transgender Horse / 33
Janet Charman / The Honeymoon Bath / 38
Jack Ross / The Assassination Weapon - Anzac Day / 46
Rangi Faith / Homage To The Pufferfish / 49
joanne burns / is pointing still considered rude - whom did you expect / 50
John Geraets / Colourless leaves / 52
Richard von Sturmer / Train Notes / 53
Andrew Burke / Happy Hour / 56
Scott Hamilton / Eripene / 57
Mariana Isara / ink jet transfusion / 59
William Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton / 61
Gus Simonovic / One of Us / 70
Anna Rugis / Travelling Light / 72
Craig Cliff / Space For A Thousand Secrets / 73
Jennifer Compton / A Small Town on the Coast / 74
Douglas Barbour / Rose / 76
Cameron Hockly / Watching / 79
Tony Green / A Miscellany [2006 -2008] / 80
Murray Edmond / This One That One - Miniature / 84
Will Christie / C/rea[c]t/e / 86
Ian Finch / Revolving Wormhole - Organ of Corti / 87

Reviews:

Jack Ross on Martin Edmond's The Supply Party / 89
Ross Brighton on Ted Jenner's Writers in Residence and Other Captive Fauna, Sandy Florian's The Tree of No, and Lara Glenum's Maximum Gaga / 94
Notes on Contributors / 100

Issue 37 (April 2009): the exotic

2009-04-29T11:15:00.014+12:00

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

brief
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

2008-09-23T14:10:00.011+12:00

[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
Contributors' Notes / 125

Brief #36 CD:

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

Issue 35 (September 2007): A brief world order

2007-12-11T17:19:00.006+13:00

[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

2007-12-11T17:17:00.005+13:00

[Cover images Ellen Portch]

brief
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

2007-12-11T17:13:00.005+13:00

[Cover image: Anya Whitlock]

brief
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

2007-12-11T17:07:00.005+13:00

[Cover design: James Fryer]

brief
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

2007-12-11T17:06:00.004+13:00

[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

2007-12-11T17:05:00.004+13:00

[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

2007-12-11T17:04:00.012+13:00

[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

2007-12-11T17:04:00.011+13:00

[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

2007-12-11T17:02:00.010+13:00

[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

2007-12-11T17:02:00.009+13:00

[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

Issue 25 (October 2002): trains at a glance

2007-12-11T17:01:00.004+13:00

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 25 - trains at a glance (October 2002):

Jack Ross / Editorial / 3-6
Murray Edmond / Voyager (after Apollinaire) / 7-12
Jack Ross / Hong Kong – 2001/ 13-16
Mark Young/ Two translations / 17-18
Alan Brunton / Compostela / 19-33
Michele Leggott / m i l k o f a l m o n d s / w h i t e m a g n o l i a / 34-38
Olivia Macassey / The uncanny truth about Abelard / 39-41
Thomas Mitchell / Next to El Proximo / 42
Kathleen Peacock / Foreign Bodies in the Ear; Rosemary Touches Elizabeth / 43-44
K. M. Ross / from Falling Through the Architect / 45-48
Peter Crisp / Four Pieces of a Foreign Landscape / 49-52
Richard von Sturmer / Red Mountains / 53-56
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / 57, 59, 61
Leicester Kyle / from Dancing in the Cave / 58, 60, 62
Richard Taylor / from Chains / 63-64
Ian Harnett / Rhizome Riders / 65-68
Mark Pirie / call guy / 69
Edward Mulete / Subject: Urgent Assistance / 70
Tony Green / Alien Weltanschauung / 71-74
Chris Stroffolino / Inner Cone & Ant / 75-76
Simon Field / Bodhidharma’s Songs / 77-79
Paula Green / Waitakere The Remarkables–Napoli / 80-81
Will Joy Christie / G.race / 82
Michael Arnold / Learning Chinese (from Cashlin) / 83-86
John Geraets / Tête-à-Text / 87-98
Martin Edmond / … among the ruins with the Poor / 99-101
Scott Hamilton / Review: Smithyman, Last Poems / 103-105
Mark Pirie / Notice: HeadworX – New Releases in 2002 / 105
Lisa Docherty / Notice: Bumper Books – Forthcoming & Recent Releases / 106
Michele Leggott & Sally Rodwell / Notice: Alan Brunton, Fq / 107
John Geraets / Pre-publication offer: Sugu Pillay, The Chandrasekhar Limit / 108
Jack Ross / Notice: brief Writer’s Award / 109
Contributor Notes / 110-111
Scott Hamilton / i.m. Allen Curnow, 1911-2001 / 111

Issue 24 (July 2002): less formal than bull

2007-12-11T16:59:00.010+13:00

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 24 - less formal than bull (July 2002):

Jack Ross / Editorial / 3
Alan Brunton / Ten Days that Shook the World / 5-9
Michele Leggott / Angels and Oracles / 10-13
John Barnett & Lesley Kaiser / Bat Masterson Said / 14
Grant Duncan / Western / 15-16
K. M. Ross / The Demon Home / 17-18
Richard von Sturmer / Blue Mountains / 19-23
Olivia Macassey / Otesánek / 24-26
David Howard / There You Go / 27-32
Mark Young/ Two poems / 33-34
Simon Field / Five more from Gordon Belgrave / 35-40
Jack Ross / Hybrid Art / 41-44
Ian Harnett / A Pair of Foxes Dressed in Drag / 45-47
John Geraets / Pierrot souffle / 48-49
Will Joy Christie / Just T.AKSING / 50
Mark Pirie / White Wash / 51-53
Tony Green / news / 54-57
Bernard Gadd / Mr Wm Blake Esqu.’s apprised of the cell phone / 58-59
John O’Connor / Four poems / 60-61
Alistair Paterson / Two after Randall Jarrell / 62-63
Richard Taylor / The Infinite Poem (Part One) / 64-69
Martin Edmond / Folk Tale / 70-74
Leicester Kyle / Mr Muir and Mr Emerson / 75-77
Jack Ross / Review: Alan Loney, The Falling: A Memoir / 78-79
John Geraets / Notice: Sugu Pillay, The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories / 81
Mary Paul & Jenny Lawn / Notice: Antipodean Gothic Conference / 82
Contributor Notes / 83-84

Issue 23 (March 2002)

2007-12-11T16:59:00.009+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 23 (March 2002):

Simon Ingram / pageworks
John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3
Richard von Sturmer / Working with Nagarjuna / 4-10
Ted Jenner / Aisthesis / 11-13
Tony Green / accumulations, news &tc / 14-17
Peter Crisp / Lights of a Day / 19-24
Simon Field / A star chart... / 25
Michael Radich / what the snow said / 26-27
Michael Arnold / from Cashlin / 28-35
Jack Ross / Tahiti in 1978 / 36-50
Will Joy Christie / Skinship / 51
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Never tell the trouble / 52-53
Alan Loney / a propos(ition / 54-56
Simon Field / five from Gordon Belgrave / 57-61
Judi Stout / Intent / 62-63
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / When ideas fail... / 64
Anna Jackson / Kindness to horses / 65-66
Ian Harnett / Strata Jumping in the Silky Vade Mecum / 67-71
Hamish Dewe / 4 signed works / 72-75
Michele Leggott / Let there be couscous (part 2) / 76-93
Alan Brunton / Intrigue / 94-98
Contributor Notes / 99-100

Issue 22 (December 2001)

2007-12-11T16:58:00.005+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 22 (December 2001):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3
Hamish Dewe / On Aesthetics / 4-5
Alan Brunton / Who’s gonna pick up first? / 6-9
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / When ideas fail /10-11
Ian Harnett / The Castle of Olympus: Adventures in Mixed Genres / 12-20
Michele Leggott / Let there be couscous / 21-37
Simon Field / poems / 38-39
Ian Wedde / Beauty, Sex, Heroism / 40-44
Anna Jackson / poems / 45-46
Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul & D. Jotti / A red line: An Aesthetics of Process / 47-52
Alan Loney / Megaphonos / 53-58
Tony Green / accumulations / 59-62
Jack Ross / Alan Loney : John O’Connor : John Geraets / 63-73
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Words come in handy / 74-75
Peter Crisp / The Difficulty of Writing Poetry / 76-81
Martin Edmond /from Chronicle of the Unsung / 82-88
Richard von Sturmer / Myths / 89-91
nuchael radich / ‘Do Not Write In This Space’ / 92-95
Hamish Dewe / Notes In Exile Forming A Background To My Thesis... / 96-99
Contributor Notes / 100

Issue 21 (September 2001): aesthetics

2007-12-11T16:57:00.005+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 21 - aesthetics (September 2001):

Mary-Louise Browne / Inside cover
Graham Lindsay / ‘Dear John’ / 6-8
Paula Green / in the teeth of poetry / 9-16
Ted Jenner / Luminous Details: Malawi 1998-2001/ 17-22
Helen / Ephemeral / 23
Ian Harnett / The Old Scaling Tree / 25-31
Simon Field / Zen Aesthete & poem / 32-35
Tony Green / Nymphs & Shepherds in Arcadia / 36-37
Alan Brunton / Prelude to an Afternoon / 38-41
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / ANAESTHETICS: a brief description
of How the mind works / 42-43
Tony Green / accumulation / 44-46
Mary-Louise Browne / centrepiece pages / 48-49
John Geraets / Illustrative poem / 51-52
Sarah Shieff / Transports of delight: wonder and the time-based arts / 53-58
Bill Manhire / old song new song / 59-61
Richard von Sturmer / Some Minor Disturbances / 62-66
Michael Harlow / postcard section / 67-68
Martin Edmond /from Chronicle of the Unsung / 69-74
Anna Jackson / poems / 75-77
Michael Onslow-Osborne / poems / 78-81
Anna Jackson / The sublime in New Zealand poetry / 82-86
Peter Crisp / Close to Home: Six Poems / 87-92
Contributor Notes / 93
Mary-Louise Browne / Inside cover

Issue 20 (June 2001): aesthetics

2007-12-11T16:56:00.004+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 20 - aesthetics (June 2001):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 5-6
Alan Brunton / Illuminations / 7-11
Tony Green / Aesthetics After Blackpool / 12-15
Simon Field / Zen Aesthete & Four Poems / 16-20
Ted Jenner / Wishbone / 21
Jack Ross / Case Studies / 23-29
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / adapted from ‘Here We Are Now” / 30-31
Richard von Sturmer / Mysterious Beauty / 32-35
Martin Edmond / an.aesthetic / 36-40
Sugu Pillay / Two Poems / 41-42
michael radich / writing2 / 43-46
Richard von Sturmer / Antonello da Messina / 47-49
Gregory O’Brien / On Aesthetics / 50-52
Peter Crisp / The Kid: a Venture into Poetry / 53-65
Leicester Kyle / Sign-off/ 66-67
Contributor Notes / 68

Issue 19 (March 2001)

2007-12-11T16:55:00.004+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 19 (March 2001):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3
Anna Jackson / In and out of the museum. /4-6
Hamish Dewe / Seven / 7
Judi Stout / Rods and Cones / 8-9
Simon Field / Three Poems /10-13
Richard Taylor / Review: Nights with Giordano Bruno /14-17
Tony Green / from accumulation / 18-19
Paula Green / in the dead of the night I hath inherited grace / 20-21
Richard von Sturmer / In Transit / 22-28
Peter Crisp / Poems / 29-34
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Everything is how it is … / 35
Sugu Pillay / Two Poems / 36-37
Leicester Kyle / On The Great Buller Coal Plateau / 38-40
John Geraets / Conglomerate / 41
michael radich / noise lyric / 42-47
Judi Stout / Artifice of Absorption / 48-49
Tony Green / 2 poems; splay / 50-51
Alan Brunton/John Geraets / Questions and Answers / 52-64
Graham Lindsay / eyebrighT; chinK; particle and wavE / 65-69
Jack Ross / Jack’s Metamorphoses (Part 2) / 70-79
Contributor Notes / 80

Issue 18 (December 2000)

2007-12-11T16:54:00.012+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 18 (December 2000):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 5-7
Graham Lindsay / four poems / 8-11
Leicester Kyle / A Voyge to New Zealand / 12-21
Simon Field / six poems / 22-27
Jack Ross / In the Cave of Henry James / 28-35
Anna Jackson / Correspondence / 36-39
Richard von Sturmer / The Desert / 40-49
Sugu Pillay / two poems / 50-51
Michael Onslow-Osborne / #9 Imperatives / 52-54
michael radich / sayonara, say your not a / 55-58
John Geraets / Circumstantial Set / 59-61
Janet Hunt / Lace / 62-63
Tony Green / three pieces / 64-67
Wystan Curnow / From Lives of the Artist / 68-73
Alan Brunton / Selected Alchemical Letters / 74-78
Michael Onslow-Osborne / Pre-Millennial Tinnitus: Noise-bytes 1999-2000 / 79-90
Fiona Pardington / I like, I don’t like / 91-92
Scott Hamilton / from Write / 93-95
Peter Crisp / Four Purification Poems / 96-99
Contributor Notes / 100

Issue 17 (September 2000): Loney

2007-12-11T16:54:00.011+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 17 (September 2000):

Janet Hunt / Alan Loney: Printer/Poet: Considerations /3-10
Alan Loney talking to Graham Lindsay... i / 11-17
Lydia Wevers / & Reading Alan Loney / 18-24
Tony Green / poem / 25
Peter Crisp / The Poetry of Alan Loney / 26-30
Alan Loney talking to Graham Lindsay… ii / 31-37
Douglas Barbour / A Canadian Meeting Alan Loney / 38-40
Ted Jenner / WOMAN. CHILD. WATER. FULL MOON / 41
Elizabeth Wilson / In Anticipation / 42-50
Noel Waite / Alan Loney’s shifting texts / 51-60
Alan Loney / endless beginnings / 61-68
Michael Harlow / poem / 69
Jack Ross / An Inside Narrative: Recent Works by Alan Loney / 70-79
Alan Loney talking to Graham Lindsay... iii / 80-85
Anna Jackson / Sidetracks / 86-93
Book Notes / 94
Contributor Notes / 95-96

Issue 16 (June 2000)

2007-12-11T16:53:00.006+13:00

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 16 (June 2000):

John Geraets / Sidelines /3
Michael Harlow / The Tower of Babel / 4-11
Tony Green / e-mail / 12
michael radich / four pages / 13-16
Dinah Hawken / Where We Say We Are / 17-22
Hamish Dewe / 3x4 / 23
Richard von Sturmer / Seclusion / 24-30
Tony Green / e-mail / 31
Janet Hunt / Template for Persistence... / 32-33
Graham Lindsay / big feet: the ballad of fanny gracE / 34-39
Michael Onslow-Osborne / two poems / 40-41
Simon Ingram / design / 42-43
Peter Crisp / five poems / 44-49
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / seeing is when you forget … / 50-51
Richard von Sturmer / Across the Tasman / 52-53
Alan Brunton / Country Music / 54-59
Sugu Pillay / two poems / 60-61
Jack Ross / Dieting / 62-69
Scott Hamilton / Two Letters / 70-71
John Geraets / AA Conversation / 72-73
Scott Hamilton / Six Homages on Six Pink Slips! / 74-79
Tony Green / e-mail / 80
Fiona Pardington / Job Description / 82-83
Leicester Kyle / Mr. Buller To... / 84
Contributor Notes / 85

Issue 15 (March 2000)

2007-12-11T16:52:00.012+13:00

ABDOTWW / description
Editor: John Geraets
Number 15 (March 2000):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 5-6
Tony Green / Five Poems / 7-10
Sugu Pillay / Lovers Discourse / 11-15
Judi Stout / The Muscles / 16-17
Alan Loney /from Fragmenta nova / 18-26
Paula Green /Afternoon Tea with Gertrude Stein / 27-29
Richard von Sturmer / Winter at Chapin Mill / 30-36
Alan Loney / A BRIEFE DISCRIPTION of the whole WORLD … / 37
Alan Brunton / In Answer to the Question / 38-42
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / INCREASE the PEACE / 43
Ted Jenner / A Concise Natural History of Southern Malawi / 44-50
Graham Lindsay / Four Poems / 51-54
michael radich / Read the paper / 55
Jack Ross / Jack’s Metamorphoses / 57-62
Ian Harnett / The Point of a Pin (iii) / 63-78
John O’Connor / Two Poems / 79-80
Fiona Pardington / Four Poems / 81-84
Contributor Notes / 85
Leicester Kyle / Errata / 86

Issue 14 (December 1999)

2007-12-11T16:52:00.011+13:00

[Anthony Geraets: Cover Design]

ABDOTWW
Editor: John Geraets
Number 14 (December 1999):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3-6
Alan Brunton / Being here (Last) / 7-11
Janet Hunt / Williamson Avenue, 1999 / 12-13
Peter Crisp / Five Poems / 14-17
Judi Stout / The Muscles / 18-22
Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul / Between meaning and nonsense / 23-33
Jack Ross / The Great Hunger / 34-37
Graham Lindsay / making lovE / 38-41
Sugu Pillay / The Lungs Of The Globe / 42-56
Leicester Kyle / On The Principle Of New Zealand Weather / 57-62
Ian Harnett / The Point of a Pin (ii) / 63-76
Tony Green / New Space-Vehicles... / 77-80
Fiona Pardington / Five Pieces / 81-85
Lesley Kaiser & John Bamett / These days... / 86-87
Leigh Davis / The Bicycle / 88-99
Hamish Dewe / Four Poems / 101-104
michael radich / the ruins of anchor what / 105-108
Book Notes / 109
Contributor Notes / 110

Issue 13 (September 1999)

2007-12-11T16:51:00.006+13:00

ABDOTWW
Editor: John Geraets
Number 13 (September 1999):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3-4
Alan Loney / from Fragmenta Nova / 5-13
michael radich / two views / 14-19
Ian Harnett / The Point of a Pin (i) / 20-31
Wystan Curnow / 32-35
Leicester Kyle / Marlowe overwritten / 36-39
Sugu Pillay / The Word Pitcher / 40-49
Tom Beard / Shuttle 1 / 50
F W N Wright / Letter / 51
Leigh Davis / Pitch / 52-53
Hamish Dewe / from ‘Manifesto [1.]’ / 54
Peter Crisp / poems / 55-58
Graham Lindsay / Dance of the apple pickers / 59-67
Elizabeth Wilson / Speaking Volumes / 69-75
michael radich / What is the reference / 76
Tony Green / poems / 77-81
John Geraets / Coloins: / 82-84
Alan Brunton / Being here (5) / 85-90
Book Notes / 91-92
Contributor Notes / 93

Issue 12 (June 1999): Willy's Gazette

2007-12-11T16:50:00.005+13:00

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: John Geraets
Number 12 (June 1999):

John Geraets / Carousel / [2]
Leigh Davis/ Willy’s Gazette (1983/99)

Issue 10/11 (October 1998)

2007-12-11T16:49:00.004+13:00

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Numbers 10 & 11 (October 1998):

Michele Leggott / snake & jewel / 3-8
Peter Crisp / The cables; the Lone poet Rides Again / 9-12
Janet Hunt / So Long / 13
Alan Brunton / Being Here (4) / 14-19
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / ANNOUNCEMENTS / 20-21
Michael Radich / pine; matins at the ok coral; oh no, not lyric! / 22-24
Elizabeth Wilson / Mare Superum / 25-28
Ibykos/Ted Jenner / 22 Love Songs / 29-34
Tony Green / Los Angeles Notes; Dead Fingers Talk; Big Night Out / 35-38
John Geraets / Dogen’s Box / 39-42
Leicester Kyle / The Comparative Atmospheric Pressure …; On Forest Culture / 43-47

Issue 9 (April 1998)

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[Cover: taken from A Roman Capital Alphabet by Giambattista Palatino, mid-16th century.]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 9 (April 1998):

Alex Calder / And then: the fortunes of a little magazine / 3-7
Wystan Curnow / Lives of the artists / 8-14
Lesley Kaiser/John Barnett / Translations from the Japanese / 15-19
Murray Edmond / Wholly Daze / 20-23
Tony Green / The Bellori File / 24-28
Tom Beard / an abstract … / 29-31
Mark Wills / from the Cleistogame / 32-35
John Geraets / Transposition is one thing to be about … / 36-39
Alan Brunton / Being Here (3) / 40-45
Graham Lindsay / Taxi / 46-48
Leicester Kyle / from Koroneho / 49-54
Contributor notes / 55

Issue 8 (December 1997)

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[Cover drawing by Joanna Paul]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 8 (December 1997):

Alan Loney / The Other Tradition / 3-6
Michael Radich / he zhizhang: sing willow … / 7-17
Joanna Paul / Colour Diary / 18-19
Tony Green / Something else … / 20-23
Paula Green / the house simply sparkling of itself … / 24-29
Lesley Kaiser/John Bamett / nothing is more certain than death / 30-33
Alan Brunton / Being Here (2) / 34-39
Judi Stout / On the feast of Stephen / 40-45
Elizabeth Wilson / mouth to mouth / 47-53
Francis Ponge/Ted Jenner / Three Prose Poems / 54-57
Peter Crisp / A Few Things; Soft Talk / Big Spaces; moon never / 58-61
Leicester Kyle / from Koroneho / 62-67
Sugu Pillay / The Lungs of the Globe / 68-75
Contributor notes / 76

Issue 7 (September 1997)

2007-12-11T16:47:00.004+13:00

[Cover art by John Hurrell]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 7 (September 1997):

Alan Loney / “What are poets for?” / 3-6
Michele Leggott / a woman, a rose, and what has it to do with her … / 7-15
Janet Hunt / woman at the gate; palimpsest / 16-18
Alan Brunton / Remarks on “The Future of Poetry” / 19-21
Lesley Kaiser/John Barnett / Losing improves your character / 22-25
John Geraets / Young Ludwig / 26-30
Wystan Curnow / Top 10 ‘hot’ artists / 31-34
Leicester Kyle / from Koroneho / 35-40
Peter Crisp / goldfinches / 41
Graham Lindsay / Sea of friends; Password; Russian dolls / 42-43
Murray Edmond / Millennium Meiosis Playlet; “Two or Three Things …” / 44-45
Billy Apple / Bar Graph / 47
Tony Green / At Night / 49-52
Alan Brunton / Being Here (1) / 53-57
Michael Radich / truth, will, out; me and things; the grass again / 58-61
Sugu Pillay / reading the tradition … / 62-65
Contributor notes / 66

Issue 6 (July 1997)

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[Cover design by Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 6 (July 1997):

Alan Loney / A place to go / 3-6
Janet Hunt / the dog in St Kevin’s arcade / 7
Lesley Kaiser/John Bamett / Stone is more stony … / 8-9
Leicester Kyle / Koroneho: Joyful News Out Of The New Found World / 10-19
Denis O’Connor / MAANE / 21
Tony Green / The Tobacconist’s Windows / 23-26
Alan Brunton / Amsterdam / 27-30
Bridget Furey / Brag Art / 31
Wystan Curnow / Flowers of Giverny / 32-37
Murray Edmond / Line; The Revue of the Re-view of the Review etc. / 38-39
Graham Lindsay / Gulf; Legend of the cool secret / 40-43
Peter Crisp / The Day Of A Year; Quickly / 44-47
Sugu Pillay / Work in Progress / 48-51
John Geraets / Review: Alan Loney, Envoy / 52-55
Contributor notes / 56

Issue 5 (May 1997)

2007-12-11T16:46:00.009+13:00

[Cover: [world map] in Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum,
printed by Gunther Zainer, Augsburg, 1472.]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 5 (May 1997):

[In Memoriam Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997]

Alan Loney / Parallax revisited / 1-5
Sugu Pillay / A Krishnapallavi for Hari / 6-19
Joanna Paul / HEAD caput CUP; NEURON NERVE thread; haematopoetic / 20-25
Alan Brunton / The Stone of Changes / 26-29
Peter Crisp / Prudentius; 22nd Wedding Anniversary / 30-31
Janet Hunt / Land as text (1) & (2)/ 32-35
Michael Radich / Etude #1: How to Say in English / 36-39
Mark Wills / Bonfire / 40-43
Lesley Kaiser / John Barnett / Better the blind man … / 44-47
Murray Edmond / Cash / 48-49
Tony Green / Driven – A Rage / 50-53
Wystan Curnow / Sun Rises in the East … / 55
Di Nash / A shimmer crescent … / 56-57
Contributor Notes / 58

Issue 4 (November 1996)

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[Cover : Familiar Monuments – Drawers, by Marie Horner]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 4 (November 1996):

Alan Loney / Who do I write for? / 3-6
Roger Horrocks / Takeaways / 7-13
Ted Jenner / Constellations; Writers in Residence / 14-18
Di Nash / Valkyrie Poems / 19-23
Elizabeth Wilson / aninsistentmaterialism … / 24-27
Ken Bolton / (Pinkham) / 28-32
Mark Wills / from The Clystergame / 33-37
Tony Green / I wandered lonely; Avalanche; Rough Draught / 38-41
Sugu Pillay / Work in Progress / 42
Lesley Kaiser/John Barnett / every wall / 52-53
C. K. Stead / The Real Thing / 54
Alan Brunton / Night Time / 55-58
Peter Crisp / from ‘They’ (a short story) / 59-63
Christopher Neilson / Susan / 64-65
Billy Apple / Pie Chart / 67
Wystan Curnow / Phonecard news; Portrait Galleries; Dutch Artists’ Planes / 69-73
John Geraets / Common fold / 74-77
Michael Radich / Across / 78-80
Contributors Notes / 81-82

Issue 3 (June 1996)

2007-12-11T16:44:00.009+13:00

[Cover: Big Aitche, Little Aitche, by Denis O’Connor]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 3 (June 1996):

[IN MEMORIAM Kendrick Smithyman 1922-1995]

Alan Loney / Defamiliarizing the Familiars / 3-5
Len Lye / from “Night Tree” / 6-10
Paula Green / from the test kitchen / 11-14
Judi Stout / Andy Warhol’s Diaries / 15-20
Mark Wills / Michael and I are still … / 21-23
Michael Radich / heretical si(g)nologies (1) & (2) / 24-29
Elizabeth Wilson / X / 30-35
Lesley Kaiser/John Barnett / O / 36-39
Sugu Pillay / The Daughters of Kunti / 40-47
Sheila E Murphy / Two poems / 48-49
Billy Apple / 1.61 … / 51
Alan Brunton / The Reading – from: Pendulum Swing / 53-58
Tony Green / Four poems / 59-61
John Geraets / How-or-Whether New Poems Mean / 62-65
Contributor notes / 66-67

Issue 2 (March 1996)

2007-12-11T16:42:00.004+13:00

[Cover: Mark Wills]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 2 (March 1996):

Alan Loney / The Path of the Text / 3-4
Francis Ponge/Ted Jenner / Eight Prose Poems / 5-9
Tony Green / Five poems /10-12
Di nash / Moon above … / 13
Elizabeth Wilson / ‘If this can be called thinking’ / 14-15
Murray Edmond / syzygy; Escape from Architecture into Landscape / 16-18
John Geraets / Stepping: Two gateways / 19-22
Billy Apple / Axonometric drawings of the Gregory Flint Gallery, 1995 / 23-26
Sugu Pillay / Work in Progress / 27-31
Lisa Robertson / two from Debbie: an epic / 32-35
Michele Leggott / Dove; Hesperides / 36-47
Alan Brunton / Fast Post / 48-51
Contributor notes / 52

Issue 1 (December 1995)

2007-12-11T16:41:00.005+13:00

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 1 (December 1995):

Alan Loney / On Clarity / 3-5
Alan Brunton / An Objection to a Proposal / 6-9
Sylvie Haisman / Tendon / 10-12
Michael Radich / diptych / 13-14
Sugu Pillay / Not a Love Story / 15-18
Elizabeth Wilson / FOR WE GO AHAWKING … / 19-22
Christopher Neilson / Alchemical Introduction; Crane-Women, Fox-Men / 23-24
Tom Beard / from Urban Songs / 25
Paula Green / listing the breathless women / 26-29
Graham Lindsay / Residence in silence; After-dinner speech; Mirror / 30-33
Diana Nash / There are gardens / 34-36
Mark Wills / To – Michael Radich / 37
Tony Green / If I were a painter; Body Constructs; For St. Valentine’s Day 1995/ 38-40
Wystan Curnow / Details / 41-48
Billy Apple / 0.31 – 0.50 – 1.32 – 3.44 – 9.02 – 23.61 – 61.80 / 49
Michael Radich / Chapter 1; three footnotes to an MA thesis; shibboleth / 51-55
Charles Bernstein / “Get Real”; [Untitled]; The Emotional Truth / 56-58
John Geraets/Bruce Malcolm / Helix / 59-62
Tony Green on John Geraets / Sanage Adventure Field / 63-66
Lesley Kaiser/John Barnett / Oh Damn! / 67-68
Contributor notes / 69-70

Breakdown by Issue:

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A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney

No 1, December 1995: 70 pp.

No 2, March 1996: 52 pp.

No 3, June 1996: 67 pp.

No 4, November 1996: 82 pp.

No 5, May 1997: 58 pp.

No 6, July 1997: 56 pp.

No 7, September 1997: 66 pp.

No 8, December 1997: 76 pp.

No 9, April 1998: 55 pp.

Nos 10 & 11, October 1998: 47 pp.

Editor: John Geraets

No 12, June 1999:
Leigh Davis, Willy’s Gazette (1983): vii + 111 pp.

ABDOTWW

No 13, September 1999: 93 pp.

No 14, December 1999: 110 pp.

ABDOTWW / description

No 15, March 2000: 86 pp.

Ab.WW / AbdotWW

No 16, June 2000: 85 pp.

Ab.ww / Loney

No 17 - Loney, September 2000: 96 pp.

brief.

No 18, December 2000: 100 pp.

No 19, March 2001: 80 pp.

No 20 - aesthetics, June 2001: 68 pp.

No 21 - aesthetics, September 2001: 93 pp.

No 22, December 2001: 100 pp.

No 23, March 2002: 100 pp.

brief
Editor: Jack Ross

No 24 - less formal than bull, July 2002: 84 pp.

No 25 - trains at a glance, October 2002: 111 pp.

No 26 - Smithymania, January 2003: 118 pp.

No 27 - season of the remakes, June 2003: 104 pp.

No 28 - Alan Brunton, October 2003: 126 pp.

No 29 - more fun than you've ever seen, March 2004: 102 pp.

No 30 - Kunst, October 2004: 120 pp.

No 31 - Kultur, October 2004: 120 pp.

No 32 - Joanna Margaret Paul, May 2005: 120 pp.

Editor: Scott Hamilton

No 33 - exile and home, March 2006: 150 pp.

No.34 - war, February 2007: 188 pp.

Editor: Brett Cross

No 35 - a brief world order, September 2007: 132 pp.

Editors: Brett Cross & Bill Direen

No 36 - The NZ Music Issue, September 2008: 126 pp.

Editor: Michael Arnold

No 37 - the exotic, April 2009: 118 pp.

Editor: Jen Crawford

No 38, August 2009: 104 pp.

Editor: Michael Arnold

No 39, March 2010: 132 pp.

Editor: Ted Jenner

No 40, July 2010: 134 pp.

Editor: Richard von Sturmer

No 41, December 2010: 110 pp.

Editor: William (Bill) Direen

No 42, May 2011: 111 pp.

Editor: Hamish Dewe

No 43, November 2011: 104 pp.

Falling Through the Architect

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K. M. Ross. Falling Through the Architect. ISBN 0-476-01578-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, September 2005.

Blurb from Crywolf Books:

Welcome to the dark machinery: to a meticulously-detailed Edinburgh in the year 1992, where a Fruitmarket delivery boy is about to take the shop van to an address that appears not to exist at all.

The machine, the random play of hazard, will introduce him into another environment altogether: a sleazy dive of a flat in a tenement block on Causewayside named Rochelle Place.

There Fian, the Buddha-girl, lives a life of pure serenity. There the Australian Steve acquires money by his grey-market dealing in computer parts. There nothing is exactly what it seems: neither the people, nor this environment itself; and the boy through his own unsuspecting openness is quickly drawn in to a cat's cradle of the strangest forces and desires.

And above it all, The Architect moans on, self-proclaimed creator and maintainer of every minutest detail of the process of event, hovering like an unthinkable whale-form in and through and over the universe. YHVH, the Lord, our God – or so he claims.

He tells a frightening story of origins beyond imagination, of the secret origin and motivation of his own act of Creation. Ranting and rhyming away, he builds on hooks and preoccupations from the minds of each of the human characters.

While the relations of Bob and Fian and Steve build from crisis to crisis, from sex to violence to mental breakdown, we have to wonder: where are these God-texts coming from? Are they someone's black tormented dream? ... Or some psychological weaving-together, the roar of the composite?

... Or could this be the voice of the machine itself, that great Design, so huge that its relevance is not to humans, through which they tumble helplessly like a race of pinballs, fortuitously clashing and connecting and falling away again?

We are falling, falling, through vectors, frighteningly precise — drawn by what kind of hand?

Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian

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Kendrick Smithyman. Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian. Edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00382-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, October 2004.

Contents:

Introduction

Dino Campana

Born in 1885, near Faenza; died of septicaemia at Castel Pulci in 1932. Before being committed in 1918 to the mental hospital where he died, Campana’s life was characterised by compulsive wandering, tormented love affairs, and extreme disdain for the literary establishment. Major work: Canti Orfici (1914).
Old Florence
Firenze vecchia
from The Evening of the Fair
La sera di fiera
Campana in an Autumn Garden
Giardino autunnale
Woman of Genoa
Donna genovese
The Skylight
L’invetriata

Sandro Penna

Born in Perugia in 1906; died in Rome in 1977. A somewhat isolated figure in modern Italian poetry, Penna is generally described as the one working-class poet among the intellectuals of the Hermetic school. Major works: Tutte le poesie (1970); Stranezze (1976).
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‘Esco dal mio lavoro …’
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‘Il treno tarderà …’
The Journey
Il viaggio
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‘Tutto il giorno passai …’
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‘Con il cielo coperto …’
Morning
Mattino
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‘L’ombra di una nuvola …’
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‘Alfio che un treno Porta …’
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‘Voglio credere ancora …’
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‘Lungo è il tragitto ...’
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‘Viaggiava per la terra …’
In a Small Venetian Square
La veneta piazzetta
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‘Lasciami andare ...’
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‘Sulla riva del fiume …’
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‘Sole con luna …’
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‘Se desolato io cammino ...’
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‘Nel chiuso lago …’
Woman in a Tram
Donna in tram
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‘Sul campo aperto …’
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‘Imbruna l’aria …’
News of Spring
Cronache di primavera
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‘Forse sull’erba verde …’

Nelo Risi

Born in Milan in 1920. A qualified doctor, but writer by vocation, he spent most of World War II in Russia, and was subsequently interned in Switzerland. His work concerns itself mainly with “the dilemma of the individual in an age of mass-consciousness.” Major works: L’esperienza (1948); Il mondo in una mano (1994).
Mister Risi: The Poet
Il poeta
Risi’s Tautology
Tautologia
Risi Says Muses Played Out
Le muse sono stanche

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Born in Egypt, at Alexandria, in 1888; died in Milan in 1970. He served as an infantryman in World War I, an experience which confirmed him in his vocation as a poet. With Montale and Quasimodo, one of the “big three” of twentieth-century Italian poetry. Major work: Vita d’un uomo (1969).
Quiet / Quietus
Quiete
Evening
Sera
Nostalgia
Nostalgìa
The Vigil of Ungaretti
Veglia
Agony
Agonia
Ungaretti’s Drowned Port
Il Porto sepolto

Leonardo Sinisgalli

Born in Montemurro in 1908; died in Rome in 1981. His background in physics and graphic design led him to formulate a poetry of detached understatement, in opposition to the frenzied aesthetics of his contemporaries. Major works: Cuore (1927); 18 Poesie (1935).
Children Tossing Red Coins
I fanciulli battono le monete rosse
How Sr Sinisgalli Eyeballed the Muses
Vidi le Muse

Alfonso Gatto

Born in Salerno in 1909; died in a road accident near Orbetello in 1976. He was imprisoned in Milan in 1934 for opposition to the Fascist regime, and was active in the Resistance during World War II, experiences which informed much of his later poetry. Major works: Poesie (1941); La madre e la morte (1960).
For the Martyrs of Loreto Square
Per i martiri di Piazzale Loreto

Vittorio Sereni

Born in Luino, Lago Maggiore, in 1913; died in Milan in 1983. Fought as an infantry officer in Greece and Sicily, where he was taken prisoner. His initial adherence to Hermeticism was succeeded by a more realistic approach to war and post-war austerity. Major works: Diario d’Algeria (1947); Stella variabile (1981).
Vittorio Sereni’s First Night out from Athens
Prima sera d’Atene
Airborne
Non sa piú nulla
At Six in the Morning
Le sei del mattino
Vittorio Sereni and His Great Friend
Il grande amico

Camillo Sbarbaro

Born in Santa Margherita, Liguria, in 1888; died at Spoleto in 1967. Generally seen as an adherent of the turn-of-the-century Crepuscular school, Sbarbaro’s melancholic self-absorption in fact has more in common with later poets of disillusionment such as Montale or Eliot. Major works: Pianissimo (1914); Rimanenze (1956).
Now You Have Come
Ora che sei venuta
La bambina che va sotto gli alberi
La bambina che va sotto gli alberi

Luciano Erba

Born in Milan in 1922. Scholar, translator and critic, Erba’s elaborately ironic undercutting of traditional poetic language and attitudes have helped him to build up a biting commentary on post-war Italian values. Major works: Il prato più verde (1970); Il nastro di Moebius (1980).
Luciano Erba in Lombardo-Veneto
Lombardo-Veneto
Luciano Erba Entertaining Them
Lo svagato

Mario Luzi

Born in Castello, near Florence, in 1914. An early exponent of the hermetic movement, whose motto “letteratura come vita” [literature as life] dominated Italian literature in the 1930’s, his later work is less liable to assume the capacity of poetry to palliate suffering. Major works: La barca (1935); Tutte le poesie (1979).
Mario Luzi: But Where
Ma dove
Mario Luzi on Judging
Il giudice
From (Mario Luzi) One to Another
L’uno e l’altro

Giorgio Orelli

Born in Airolo in 1921. He studied Italian literature with Gianfranco Contini at Fribourg, then went to teach in Bellinzona, where he has been living since 1945. He is onsidered by many the greatest poet of Italian Switzerland. Major works: Poesie (1953); Sinopie (1977).
The Trout
La trota

Elio Pagliarani

Born in Viserba, near Rimini, in 1927. Teacher, editor, journalist, Pagliarini’s poetry attempts to replace the conventions of the Romantic lyric with a neo-realist but linguistically complex presentation of the lives of ordinary people. Major works: La ragazza Carla e altre poesie (1962); Lezione di fisica e fecaloro (1968).
from The Girl Carla
La ragazza Carla

Lucio Piccolo

Born 1903 in Palermo. Died in 1969 at his Sicilian property at Capo d’Orlando. Like his more famous cousin Tomasi di Lampedusa, lived out of the mainstream of Italian cultural life. Major works: Canti barocchi (1956); Plumella (1967).
Lucio Piccolo’s Days
I giorni

Eugenio Montale

Born in Genoa in 1896; died in Milan in 1981. His poetry, perhaps the most influential in twentieth-century Italian literature, constantly circles back to his childhood on the coast of Liguria. Largely self-educated, he lost his job as an editor in 1938 as a result of anti-fascist opinions, and supported himself afterwards with occasional journalism and translation. Major works: Ossi di seppia (1925); Le occasioni (1939); La bufera ed altro (1956); Satura (1971).
Promenade by the Sea
Lungomare
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‘Portami il girasole ...’
Intermezzo
Intermezzo
The Customs Officers’ House
La casa dei doganieri
The Eel
L’anguilla
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‘Un tempo …’
Honour
L’onore
When I Began to Paint
‘Quando cominciai a dipingere …’
After the Rain
Dopopioggia
Heroism
L’eroismo
Reading Cavafy
Leggendo Cavafis
Disguises
I travestimenti
A Poet
Un poeta
On The Lake Of Orta
Sul lago d’Orta
In the Negative
In negativo
Culture
La cultura
In a Northern City
In una città del nord
The Inhuman
Nel disumano
A Dream, One of Many
Un sogno, uno dei tanti
That Woman from the Lighthouse
Quella del faro
From the Other Side
Dall’altra sponda
On the Beach
Sulla spiaggia
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‘Si aprono venature pericolose ...’
Aspasia
Aspasia
A Letter Not Sent
Una lettera che non fu spedita
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‘Oltre il breve recinto …’

Salvatore Quasimodo

Born in Modica in 1901; died in Milan in 1968. His Nobel prize for literature in 1959 was awarded mainly for the wartime poems collected in Giorno dopo giorno [Day after day] (1943-46), an advance on the austere Hermeticism of much of his early work. The life of the Sicilian countryside and the classical Mediterranean past are two interests which constantly resurface in his poetry. Major works: Ed è subito sera (1943); Tutte le poesie (1960).

from Acque e terre (1920-1929)

Your Dress is White
E la tua vesta è bianca
Deadwater
Acquamorta
Winter in the Old Days
Antico inverno
Sorrow of Things I Don’t Know
Dolore di cose che ignoro
The Dead
I morti
Alley
Vicolo
Refuge of the Birds of Night
Rifugio d’uccelli notturni

from Òboe sommerso (1930-1932)

Sunken Oboe
Òboe sommerso
To My Land
Alla mia terra
Word
Parola
Of a Young Woman Lying Back among Flowers
Di fresca donna riversa in mezzo ai fiori
Lamentation of a Friar in an Icon
Lamentazione d’un fraticello d’icona
Without Memory Of Death
Senza memoria di morte
Prayer to the Rain
Preghiera alla pioggia
Woods Sleep
Dormono selve
To Night
Alla notte
Metamorphoses in the Saint’s Urn
Metamorfosi nell’urna del santo
Island
Isola
Where the Dead Stand Open-Eyed
Dove morti stanno ad occhi aperti
The Angel
L’angelo
Water Decomposes Dormice
L’acqua infradicia ghiri
Seed
Seme
First Day
Primo giorno
Green Drift
Verde deriva

from Erato e Apòllion (1932-1936)

Apollyon’s Song
Canto di Apòllion
Apollyon
Apòllion
Dead Heron
Airone morto
On the Hill of the “Terre Bianche”
Sui colle delle “Terre Bianche”
In Your Light I am Wrecked
Al tuo lume naufrago
Insomnia
Insonnia
Often a Shoreline
Sovente una riviera
Ulysses’ Isle
Isola di Ulisse
Salt-Pan in Winter
Salina d’inverno
Sardinia
Sardegna
In Light of the Skies
In luce di cieli
Quarries
Latomìe
For My Mortal Smell
Del mio odore di uomo
Stranger City
Città straniera
In the Feeling of Death
Nel senso di morte

Nuove Poesie (1936-1942)

The Magpie Laughs, Black in the Orange Trees
Ride la gazza, nera sugli aranci
A Street in Agrigentum
Strada di Agrigentum
The Gentle Hill
La dolce colline
What are You up to, Shepherd of Air?
Che vuoi, pastore d’aria?
Before the Statue of Ilaria del Carretto
Davanti al simulacro d’llaria del Carretto
Now Day Breaks
Ora che sale il giorno
The Rain is Already with Us
Già la pioggia è con noi
One Evening, the Snow
Una sera, la neve
The Piazza Fontana
Piazza Fontana
The Tall Ship
L’alto veliero
Elegy for the Dancer Cumani
Elegos per la danzatrice Cumani
Delphic Woman
Delfica
Imitation of Joy
Imitazione della gioia
Moon Horses and Volcanoes
Cavalli di luna e di vulcani
Once More a Green River
Ancora un verde fiume
Beach at St Antiochus
Spiaggia a Sant’Antioco
The Scrawny Flower is Already Flying
Già vola il fiore maoro
Verging on Puberty
Inizio di pubertà

Giorno dopo giorno (1947)

Speaking about Willow Branches
Alle fronde dei salici
Letter
Lettera
19 January 1944
19 gennaio 1944
Snow
Neve
Day after Day
Giorno dopo giorno
Perhaps the Heart
Forse il cuore
Winter Night
La notte d’inverno
Milan, August 1943
Milano, agosto 1943
The Wall
La muraglia
O My Sweet Animals
0 miei dolci animali
Written Perhaps on a Tomb
Scritto forse su una tomba
Pilgrim
A me pellegrino
From the Rock Fortress of Upper Bergamo
Dalla rocca di Bergamo alta
Beside the Adda
Presso l’Adda
I Have Heard the Sea Again
S’ode ancora il mare
Elegy
Elegia
Of Another Lazarus
Di un altro Lazzaro
The Crossing
Il traghetto
Your Silent Foot
Il tuo piede silenzioso
Man of My Time
Uomo del mio tempo

from La vita non è sogno (1946-1948)

Lament for the South
Lamento per il Sud
Epitaph for Bice Donetti
Epitaffio per Bice Donetti
Colour of Rain and Iron
Colore di pioggia e di ferro
Almost a Madrigal
Quasi un madrigale
Italy is My Country
Il mio paese è l’Italia
Thànatos Athànatos
Thànatos Athànatos

from Il falso e vero verde (1949-1955)

The Dead Guitars
Le morte chitarre
False and True Green
Il falso e vero verde
In a Distant City
In una città lontana
How Long a Night
Che lunga notte
Beyond the Waves of the Hills
Al di là delle onde delle colline
Near a Saracen Tower, for His Dead Brother
Vicina a una torre saracena, per il fratello morto
Laude, 29 April 1945
Laude, 29 Aprile 1945
To a Poet Not Well Disposed
A un poeta nemico

from La terra impareggiabile (1955-1958)

Visible, Invisible
Visibile, invisibile
The Incomparable Earth
La terra impareggiabile
Today, the Twenty-First of March
Oggi ventuno marzo
From Disfigured Nature
Dalla natura deforme
An Open Arc
Un arco aperto
A Copper Amphora
Un’anfora di rame
The Scaliger Tombs
Le arche scaligere
In This City
In questa città
Once More about Hell
Ancora dell’inferno
Almost an Epigram
Quasi un epigramma
Soldiers Crying in the Night
I soldati piangono di notte
At Night on the Acropolis
Di notte sull’Acropoli
Mycenae
Micene
Following the Alpheus
Seguendo l’Alfeo
Delphi
Delfi
Marathon
Maratona
Minotaur at Knossos
Minotauro a Cnosso
Eleusis
Eleusi
To the New Moon
Alla nuova luna
An Answer
Una risposta
Another Answer
Altra risposta
Inscription for the Partisans of Valenza 1957
Epigrafe per i Partigiani di Valenza

from Dare e avere (1966)

Debit and Credit
Dare e avere
Varvàra Alexandrovna
Varvàra Alexandrovna
Only If Love Stabs You
Solo che amore ti colpisca
A Night in September
Una notte di settembre
Along the Isar
Lungo l’Isar
From the Shores of Lake Balaton
Dalle rive del Balaton
Tollbridge
Tollbridge
The Negro Church at Harlem
La chiesa dei negri ad Harlem
Cape Caliakra Capo
Caliakra
Silence Does Not Mislead Me
Il silenzio non m’inganna
Glendalough
Glendalough
The Bowmen Of Tuscany
Balestrieri toscani
In Chiswick Cemetery
Nel cimitero di Chiswick
The Maya at Mérida
I Maya a Mérida
Love Poem
Poesia d’amore
I Have Lost Nothing
Non ho perduto nulla
To Liguria
Alla Liguria
To Keep The World In Balance
Basta un giorno a equilibrare il mondo
I Have Flowers and by Night I Call on the Poplars
Ho fiori e di notte invito i pioppi

A brief index

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Jack Ross. A brief index: A breakdown by issue & author of 7 years / 26 issues of brief, the magazine formerly known as: A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww / brief. &c., December 1995 – January 2003. ISSN 1175-9313. Auckland: The Writers Group, February 2003. 48 pp.

Jack Ross. Supplement 1. A breakdown by issue & author of 3 years / 7 issues of brief, the magazine formerly known as: A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww / brief. &c., June 2003 – May 2005. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2005. 20 pp.

The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories

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Sugu Pillay. The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories. ISBN: 0-473-08731-6. Auckland: The Writers Group, December 2002.

Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword (by Lydia Wevers)
The Chandrasekhar Limit
Of Prawns and Poems
Madam Taoist Butterfly
The Daughters of Kunti
Heretic Loka
My Guru My Car
The Word Pitcher
The Lungs of the Globe
Lovers Discourse

Reading / Saying / Making: Selected essays

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Alan Loney. Reading / Saying / Making: Selected Essays. ISBN: 0-473-07628-4. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2001.

Contents:

Reading
1997 / Who are poets for?
1996 / Defamiliarizing the familiars
1996 / the path of the text
1996 / The riddle's answer to itself
1995 / On clarity
1992 / The avenues are never closed
1986 / New Zealand poetics and 'America'
1981 / Notes on Joanna Paul's Unwrapping the body
1977 / On being a New Zealand poet

Saying
2000 / entitled / unentitled: New Zealand poetry
1983 / Talking with Leigh Davis
1997 / Parallax revisited
2000 / Waiting to die
2000 / Power and the Scandal of Editing: the Case for A Brief Description of the Whole World

Making
1979 / Printing with the handpress
1986 / Book design in the computer age
1992 / Fine printing and literature - can they live together?
1993 / Prelude to Caxton press typography in the 1950s
1995 / Typography & the great New Zealand pop-up poetry canon
1996 / Edgar Mansfield's bindings
Acknowledgements

Books:

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K. M. Ross. Falling Through the Architect. ISBN 0-476-01578-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, September 2005.

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Kendrick Smithyman. Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian. Edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00382-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, October 2004.

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Jack Ross. A brief index: A breakdown by issue & author of 7 years / 26 issues of brief, the magazine formerly known as: A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww / brief. &c., December 1995 – January 2003. ISSN 1175-9313. Auckland: The Writers Group, February 2003.
- --. Supplement 1. A breakdown by issue & author of 3 years / 7 issues of brief ... June 2003 – May 2005. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2005.

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Sugu Pillay. The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories. Auckland: The Writers Group, December 2002.

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Alan Loney. Reading / Saying / Making: Selected Essays. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2001.

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Leigh Davis. Willy's Gazette. 1984. Introduction by John Geraets. A Brief Description of the Whole World 12 (June 1999) / Auckland: Jack Books, 1999.

Breakdown by Author:

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of 16 years / 43 issues of
brief
the magazine formerly known as:
A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww &c.
(December 1995 – November 2011)

A [12]

Pip Adam
- Alan MacDiarmid Building / 42 (2011): 64

John Adams
- Did you hear the snicker ... / 42 (2011): 63

Raewyn Alexander
- some man’s angels; i’m not the kind of woman / 29 (2004): 28-29
- unuttered words are dark sideboards of china / 33 (2006): 133

Paul Amlehn
- [& Olwyn Stewart] I write these despicable lines / 35 (2007): 60

Anonymous
- Leaflet distributed at Whenuapai Air Base in February 2003 / 34 (2007): 4-5

Ben Ao
- Cover: “One Tree Hill” (2007) / 37 (2009)

W Ao
- [& E Goodman] Translations of New Chinese Poetry / 37 (2009): 52-53

Billy Apple
- 0.31 – 0.50 – 1.32 – 3.44 – 9.02 – 23.61 – 61.80 / 1 (1995): 49
- Axonometric drawings of the Gregory Flint Gallery, 1995 / 2 (1996): 23-26
- 1.61 … / 3 (1996): 51
- Pie Chart / 4 (1996): 67
- Bar Graph / 7 (1997): 47

Michael Arnold
- from Cashlin / 23 (2002): 28-35
- Learning Chinese (from Cashlin) / 25 (2002): 83-86
- Two Poems / 27 (2003): 5-6
- What Poets Should Know About Chinese / 29 (2004): 68-69
- Shenyang / 33 (2006): 13-18
- /cities.33 / 34 (2007): 120-54
- Perspire / 35 (2007): 95-101
- thrall / 37 (2009): 59-63
- Editor's Note / 39 (2010): 2

Stacey Arnold
- Divya / 34 (2007): 155

Nick Ascroft
- The random infinite / 42 (2011): 45-47

Aural Disclosures
- Split Stick / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 10

B [32]

Douglas Barbour
- A Canadian Meeting Alan Loney / 17 (2000): 38-40
- Rose / 38 (2009): 76-78

John Barnett [& Lesley Kaiser]
- Oh Damn! / 1 (1995): 67-68
- O / 3 (1996): 36-39
- every wall / 4 (1996): 52-53
- Better the blind man … / 5 (1997): 44-47
- Cover design / 6 (1997)
- Stone is more stony … / 6 (1997): 8-9
- Losing improves your character / 7 (1997): 22-25
- nothing is more certain than death / 8 (1997): 30-33
- Translations from the Japanese / 9 (1998): 15-19
- ANNOUNCEMENTS / 10 & 11 (1998): 20-21
- These days... / 14 (1999): 86-87
- INCREASE the PEACE / 15 (2000): 43
- seeing is when you forget … / 16 (2000): 50-51
- Everything is how it is … / 19 (2001): 35
- adapted from ‘Here We Are Now” / 20 (2001): 30-31
- ANAESTHETICS: a brief description of How the mind works / 21 (2001): 42-43
- When ideas fail / 22 (2001): 10-11
- Words come in handy / 22 (2001): 74-75
- Never tell the trouble / 23 (2002): 52-53
- When ideas fail... / 23 (2002): 64
- Bat Masterson Said / 24 (2002): 14
- What would you like to do? … / 25 (2002): 57, 59, 61
- Shrewd Move / 27 (2003): 54
- Know So / 28 (2003): 35-39 [+ 2]
- Walking the crooked line / 31 (2004): 22-23

Sarah Jane Barnett
- The Picnic - Greece - Contours / 39 (2010): 80-81

Tom Beard
- from Urban Songs / 1 (1995): 25
- an abstract … / 9 (1998): 29-31
- Shuttle 1 / 13 (1999): 50

Dave Bedggood
- A Modem Greek Tragedy / 33 (2006): 122-27

Charles Bernstein
- “Get Real”; [Untitled]; The Emotional Truth / 1 (1995): 56-58
- It’s 8:23 in New York / 34 (2007): 34-39

Franco Bianciardi
- Couronne I - Crown I - Personne - No one / 42 (2011): 18-21

Sandra Bianciardi
- Front Cover Image: “Terre et ombre” / 42 (2011)

Judith Binney
- Conversations with Kendrick / 26 (2003): 87-91

Marty Blayney
- Postrenku - Dust Pans / 41 (2010): 78-79

Bobs for Jobs
- Vaut Rien / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 24

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
- Honig / 37 (2009): 91

Sarah Bogle
- 4 Poems / 42 (2011): 3-6
- (Law school/ dichotomy / then smile) / 43 (2011): 22-23

Ken Bolton
- (Pinkham) / 4 (1996): 28-32

Mick Borrado
- Turning Japanese / 42 (2011): 103-08

Janice M. Bostok
- The Edwin Fox / 29 (2004): 42

Chris Bourke
- The Commissioner for Enlightenment: AB talks to CB / 28 (2003): 44-57

Sam Bracanov
- Two Statements / 33 (2006): 137-38

Tania Brady
- Here Sleeps the Appetite / 30 (2004): 6

Mez Breeze
- <----[inter]Sections-A+B-> / 38 (2009): 17

Ross Brighton
- Blue Light - Metallic / 38 (2009): 7
- Reviews of Ted Jenner's Writers in Residence and Other Captive Fauna, Sandy Florian's The Tree of No, and Lara Glenum's Maximum Gaga / 38 (2009): 94-99
- Review of Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot by Kate Durbin / 39 (2010): 122-23
- Birds / 40 (2010): 61-65

Iain Britton
- Touched by a Celestial Digit / 30 (2004): 7-8
- Hiroshima and Freely do I Sing / 36 (2008): 81-82
- The Scarecrow /40 (2010): 59-60
- Gestures - Apparitions - Punctured Experimental / 41 (2010): 34-41
- in zambia / like elsewhere - & all that tactile stuff / 43 (2011): 71-77

Sarah Broom
- Heat / 38 (2009): 26

David Lyndon Brown
- Decompression / 35 (2007): 78-82
- Cavafy's Shoes, Lost Fragments from the Thief's Journal / 36 (2008): 96-100
- from Marked Men / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 20
- White Room / 37 (2009): 64-69
- Sugartown 7 a.m. - Te Henga - Florilegium - Under the Museum - On the Jetty / 39 (2010): 94-99

Dr Deidre Brown
- Review of The Fellowship: exhibition by Ellen Portch / 35 (2007): 106-13

Mary-Louise Browne
- Inside covers / 21 (2001)
- centrepiece pages / 21 (2001): 48-49

Alan Brunton
- An Objection to a Proposal / 1 (1995): 6-9
- Fast Post / 2 (1996): 48-51
- The Reading – from: Pendulum Swing / 3 (1996): 53-58
- Night Time / 4 (1996): 55-58
- The Stone of Changes / 5 (1997): 26-29
- Amsterdam / 6 (1997): 27-30
- Remarks on “The Future of Poetry” / 7 (1997): 19-21
- Being Here (1) / 7 (1997): 53-57
- Being Here (2) / 8 (1997): 34-39
- Being Here (3) / 9 (1998): 40-45
- Being Here (4) / 10 & 11 (1998): 14-19
- Being here (5) / 13 (1999): 85-90
- Being here (Last) / 14 (1999): 7-11
- In Answer to the Question / 15 (2000): 38-42
- Country Music / 16 (2000): 54-59
- Selected Alchemical Letters / 18 (2000): 74-78
- [& John Geraets] Questions and Answers / 19 (2001): 52-64
- Illuminations / 20 (2001): 7-11
- Prelude to an Afternoon / 21 (2001): 38-41
- Who’s gonna pick up first? / 22 (2001): 6-9
- Intrigue / 23 (2002): 94-98
- Ten Days that Shook the World / 24 (2002): 5-9
- Compostela / 25 (2002): 19-33
- The Excursion / 28 (2003): 7-24
- Their Diet Consists of Carrion / 28 (2003): 29-33
- [& Michael O’Leary] Answers to the Small Press Questionnaire / 28 (2003): 42-43
- Contributions to Raucous 65 & 66 / 28 (2003): 58-60
- Symbols of the Unconquered; In Cali / 29 (2004): 13-15

Owen Bullock
- 22 / 29 (2004): 58-59
- ‘Exile and Home’ / 33 (2006): 23-24
- Song for X / 36 (2008): 28

Andreas Bulow
- Culture and Revolution in Venezuela / 33 (2006): 131-32

Andrew Burke
- Happy Hour / 38 (2009): 56
- If the World is thought - Linfen Morning - From The Centre Out / 39 (2010): 100-07

Brenda Ann Burke
- Detachments / 33 (2006): 136
- Participant Observer / 34 (2007): 59
- Shift ending / 37 (2009): 89

joanne burns
- is pointing still considered rude - whom did you expect / 38 (2009): 50-51

C [16]

Joseph Cahill-Lane
- C a l i b u r n / 38 (2009): 8

Greg Cairns
- Actually I Have to Take that Picture Down (NB Common Attribution) / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 6

Alex Calder
- And then: the fortunes of a little magazine / 9 (1998): 3-7

Jill Chan
- Documenting Weakness / 30 (2004): 9
- Prose Poems / 33 (2006): 40
- After coming back from nowhere, / 42 (2011): 96-97

Janet Charman
- televisioner / 27 (2003): 7-19
- fish and chips / 29 (2004): 16-18
- Who do you See? / 37 (2009): 74-75
- The Honeymoon Bath / 38 (2009): 38-45
- 'look behind you' / 39 (2010): 10-15
- on the sliding rack - i thought that visit would be - the anthology of women’s poetry / 42 (2011): 26-31

Will Joy / Stephanie Christie
- Skinship / 23 (2002): 51
- Just T.AKSING / 24 (2002): 50
- G.race / 25 (2002): 82
- Poetry from Black Lagoon / 27 (2003): 20-21
- Arrest station; Negauche / 29 (2004): 21-22
- Logo[cent] / 30 (2004): 10-11
- Two Poems / 33 (2006): 38-39
- Bolt; The Old Story / 35 (2007): 34-37
- Review of Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Olivia Macassey / 35 (2007): 114-16
- Exclaimants / 36 (2008): 16-18
- Animals / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 8
- Clotho on the Dancefloor - Wingettes / 37 (2009): 29-31
- C/rea[c]t/e / 38 (2009): 86
- Electroencephalographia / 39 (2010): 82-86
- Mindnight - An Argument / 43 (2011): 55-57

Craig Cliff
- Space For A Thousand Secrets / 38 (2009): 73

Moira Clunie
- from Child That Mind #4 / 33 (2006): 27-30

Jennifer Compton
- A Small Town on the Coast / 38 (2009): 74-75
- Bungundah Does Things A Little Differently / 39 (2010): 45-46
- Against the Silences to Come / 42 (2011): 14-15

Cookie Brooklyn
- Untitled / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 15

Jacques Coulardeau
- Bill Direen: Devonport, A Diary, Esplanade / 43 (2011): 96-98

Jen Crawford
- Primary School, Port Kembla / 34 (2007): 163
- bad appendix / 35 (2007): 50-56
- ALBUMBLATT / 36 (2008): 23
- Editorial / 38 (2009): 2-3
- Reviews of Built, project. by Emma Phillipps – Wood by Jeanne Bernhardt / 39 (2010): 124-26
- Ahh - salt / 43 (2011): 99-101

Mary Cresswell
- Figure 3a / 29 (2004): 79

Peter Crisp
- from ‘They’ (a short story) / 4 (1996): 59-63
- Prudentius; 22nd Wedding Anniversary / 5 (1997): 30-31
- The Day Of A Year; Quickly / 6 (1997): 44-47
- goldfinches / 7 (1997): 41
- A Few Things; Soft Talk / Big Spaces; moon never / 8 (1997): 58-61
- The cables; the Lone poet Rides Again / 10 & 11 (1998): 9-12
- poems / 13 (1999): 55-58
- Five Poems / 14 (1999): 14-17
- five poems / 16 (2000): 44-49
- The Poetry of Alan Loney / 17 (2000): 26-30
- Four Purification Poems / 18 (2000): 96-99
- Poems / 19 (2001): 29-34
- The Kid: a Venture into Poetry / 20 (2001): 53-65
- Close to Home: Six Poems / 21 (2001): 87-92
- The Difficulty of Writing Poetry / 22 (2001): 76-81
- Lights of a Day / 23 (2002): 19-24
- Four Pieces of a Foreign Landscape / 25 (2002): 49-52
- About Time / 27 (2003): 22-27
- Letter / 27 (2003): 97
- Ikons & Afterglow / 33 (2006): 77-83

Brett Cross
- Reviews: Owen Bullock; Moshé Liba; Stephen Oliver/ 30 (2004): 112-13
- Notice: William Direen, Jules / 30 (2004): 114
- Notice: New Novellas from Titus Books / 32 (2005): 114
- Entrances / 33 (2006): 105
- 20th century/heist / 34 (2007): 60
- senses scattered; through a window / 35 (2007): 76-77
- [& Bill Direen & Richard Taylor] Editorial: Manifesta of (dys-)organised sound / 36 (2008): 3-5
- [& Bill Direen] Brief CD track list / 36 (2008): 6
- Jerusalem - return / 37 (2009): 76-77
- Latona / 39 (2010): 87-93
- shadow / slink / 43 (2011): 58

Wystan Curnow
- Details / 1 (1995): 41-48
- Phonecard news; Portrait Galleries; Dutch Artists’ Planes / 4 (1996): 69-73
- Sun Rises in the East … / 5 (1997): 55
- Flowers of Giverny / 6 (1997): 32-37
- Top 10 ‘hot’ artists / 7 (1997): 31-34
- Lives of the artists / 9 (1998): 8-14
- texts / 13 (1999): 32-35
- from Lives of the Artist / 18 (2000): 68-73
- Blue Tips / 38 (2009): 4
- At the Hotel /40 (2010): 33-34
- Altaussee / 41 (2010): 48-49

D [15]

Dora Dandolo
- play / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 26

Leigh Davis
- Willy’s Gazette [1983/99] / 12 (1999)
- Pitch / 13 (1999): 52-53
- The Bicycle / 14 (1999): 88-99

Andrew Dean
- Writing the South: Landfall, Baxter and Frame / 42 (2011): 65-69

Michael Dean
- Northern Portfolio / 26 (2003): 21, 24, 30, 35, 40, 44, 48, 50

Steve Dean
- “4ab”; / 28 (2003): 99

Hamish Dewe
- from ‘Manifesto [1.]’ / 13 (1999): 54
- Four Poems / 14 (1999): 101-104
- 3x4 / 16 (2000): 23
- Seven / 19 (2001): 7
- On Aesthetics / 22 (2001): 4-5
- Notes In Exile Forming A Background To My Thesis... / 22 (2001): 96-99
- 4 signed works / 23 (2002): 72-75
- Three Poems / 27 (2003): 28-29
- Bad Faith / 29 (2004): 70
- Two Poems / 31 (2004): 50
- [& Scott Hamilton] Opening the Green Door/ 31 (2004): 51-57
- Parting Closure: Imogen and Unwrapping the Body / 32 (2005): 13-32
- Blessings on Morandi / 32 (2005): 85
- Poems from Onehunga-on-the-Yangtze / 33 (2006): 48-49
- [untitled notes] / 34 (2007): 159-61
- Sydney; remains / 35 (2007): 92-94
- Shanghai - Eleven / 37 (2009): 48-49
- Review of Free Fall by Rogelio Guedea / 39 (2010): 127-29
- Head Table - Auckland Star - 2009 / 40 (2010): 56-58
- 9 Poems / 42 (2011): 98-102

John Dickson
- [& Ted Jenner] Front Cover: “After Hours Return” / 40 (2010)

Belinda Diepenheim
- Lake Rotoiti / 39 (2010): 71-73

Frances Direen
- Untitled / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 11

William (Bill) Direen
- Expatriation (non)-conclusions / 32 (2005): 99
- Journal Entry on Repatriation / 33 (2006): 19-20
- Misery / 34 (2007): 83
- Rights of the Unknown Writer / 34 (2007): 110-12
- Written out of existence / 35 (2007): 66-68
- Review of Falling Through the Architect by K. M. Ross / 35 (2007): 102-103
- Review of Marked Men by David Lyndon Brown / 35 (2007): 128
- [& Brett Cross & Richard Taylor] Editorial: Manifesta of (dys-)organised sound / 36 (2008): 3-5
- [& Brett Cross] Brief CD track list / 36 (2008): 6
- An Interview with a Dunedin Artist / 36 (2008): 65
- Twelve Songs from a Berlin Experience / 36 (2008): 101-10
- [& Thom G'Shrey] Birds & Telephones / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 2
- [& Scott Hamilton & S. Porter] Brief #36 CD (2008): track 4
- [& S. Porter] Sunday Mix / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 13
- 14.2-19.2 - Sam Johnson and the Widow / 37 (2009): 80-81
- Extract from Hyperbaton / 38 (2009): 61-69
- Hyperbaton [ctd.] / 39 (2010): 16-23
- Hyperbaton or The Ballad of rue Belliard [ctd] /40 (2010): 35-41
- Wednesday 9 / 41 (2010): 74-77
- On 1st looking into Lisa Samuels’ Mama Mortality Corridos / 42 (2011): 9-12
- Two Paris Exhibitions / 42 (2011): 79
- Extract from Hyperbaton / 42 (2011): 83-84
- Extract from Hyperbaton, or the Ballad of Rue Belliard (word 9692 to 10939) / 43 (2011): 90-95

Emily Dobson
- Photography night class / 30 (2004): 13-14

Lisa Docherty
- Notice: Bumper Books – Forthcoming & Recent Releases / 25 (2002): 106

Doc Drumheller
- N + 7 / 27 (2003): 30-31
- Adoxographi / 29 (2004): 46
- Two palindromes from: 10 x (10 + -10) = 0 / 30 (2004): 15
- Confessions of a Post-humous author / 31 (2004): 95
- Letter / 31 (2004): 115
- How to Tie a Knot Around the World / 37 (2009): 73

Kathryn Dudding
- from H. H. tries to find for each thing its real place / 29 (2004): 24-25
- This is not a Family Photo Album / 33 (2006): 75
- The Return / 34 (2007): 62-69

Grant Duncan
- Western / 24 (2002): 15-16
- Hot God Speaks / 26 (2003): 82
- Passing Away / 30 (2004): 17-20

E [7]

Margaret Edgcumbe
- [& Jack Ross] Life with Kendrick / 26 (2003): 103-09

Martin Edmond
- an.aesthetic / 20 (2001): 36-40
- from Chronicle of the Unsung / 21 (2001): 69-74
- from Chronicle of the Unsung / 22 (2001): 82-88
- Folk Tale / 24 (2002): 70-74
- … among the ruins with the Poor / 25 (2002): 99-101
- from Terminus Motel / 27 (2003): 32-36
- [& Michele Leggott, Sally Rodwell] Bumper Books checklist / 28 (2003): 40-41
- Lighting out for the Territory / 28 (2003): 61-76
- from Luca Antara / 29 (2004): 33-41
- from Luca Antara / 30 (2004): 21-26
- Dungog - Rorschach Tests for Trees / 38 (2009): 24-25

Murray Edmond
- syzygy; Escape from Architecture into Landscape / 2 (1996): 16-18
- Cash / 5 (1997): 48-49
- Line; The Revue of the Re-view of the Review etc. / 6 (1997): 38-39
- Millennium Meiosis Playlet; “Two or Three Things …” / 7 (1997): 44-45
- Wholly Daze / 9 (1998): 20-23
- Voyager (after Apollinaire) / 25 (2002): 7-12
- The Excursion, New York 1982 / 28 (2003): 27-28
- This One That One - Miniature / 38 (2009): 84-85
- Ecstasy: A Short Film - The Animals of the Bed The Gates of Paradise /40 (2010): 20-23

David Edwards
- from Overgrowth / 29 (2004): 47-50

Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul
- Between meaning and nonsense / 14 (1999): 23-33
- [& D. Jotti] A red line: An Aesthetics of Process / 22 (2001): 47-52

Riemke Ensing
- snips / 31 (2004): 7-11
- Ahmed Zaoui: He will come back … (5 versions) / 31 (2004): 12-21

Michael Estabrook
- 5 Snapshots in the Rain / 39 (2010): 108
- The Rumba with Patti - goats Oklahoma and frozen 30 candles - during the snowstorm - The Continuity of Life /40 (2010): 30-32

F [12]

Rangi Faith
- Homage To The Pufferfish / 38 (2009): 49

Michael Farrell
- jill jones eyes - dear sincerely - cocoon /40 (2010): 42-47
- thrills 2 - minimalism over two pages - simone de beauvoir / 41 (2010): 19-25

Simon Field
- six poems / 18 (2000): 22-27
- Three Poems / 19 (2001): 10-13
- Zen Aesthete & Four Poems / 20 (2001): 16-20
- Zen Aesthete & poem / 21 (2001): 32-35
- poems / 22 (2001): 38-39
- A star chart... / 23 (2002): 25
- five from Gordon Belgrave / 23 (2002): 57-61
- Five more from Gordon Belgrave / 24 (2002): 35-40
- Bodhidharma’s Songs / 25 (2002): 77-79

Ian Finch
- Revolving Wormhole - Organ of Corti / 38 (2009): 87

Padmanabha Fischlinger
- Untitled / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 19
- [& Jack Ross] The Cat / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 7

Jan Fitzgerald
- Te Puna / 30 (2004): 27

Don Franks
- Response to Vincent O’Sullivan / 34 (2007): 3

Brentley Frazer
- The Assumption … / 29 (2004): 51

Janis Freegard
- Coleoptera / 37 (2009): 90
- Speaking of the Balloonist / 39 (2010): 43-44

James Fryer
- Cover design / 28 (2003)
- Cover design / 29 (2004)
- Cover design / 30 (2004)
- Cover design / 31 (2004)
- Cover design / 32 (2005)

Basim Furat
- 1 March 1967 / 31 (2004): 110-113

Bridget Furey
- Brag Art / 6 (1997): 31

G [10]

Bernard Gadd
- Mr Wm Blake Esqu.’s apprised of the cell phone / 24 (2002): 58-59
- Digging towards you / 26 (2003): 86
- Sketch / 29 (2004): 45
- Christ Carrying the Cross / 32 (2005): 86

Anthony Geraets
- Cover Design / 14 (1999)

John Geraets
- [& Bruce Malcolm] Helix / 1 (1995): 59-62
- Stepping: Two gateways / 2 (1996): 19-22
- How-or-Whether New Poems Mean / 3 (1996): 62-65
- Common fold / 4 (1996): 74-77
- Review: Alan Loney, Envoy / 6 (1997): 52-55
- Young Ludwig / 7 (1997): 26-30
- Transposition is one thing to be about … / 9 (1998): 36-39
- Dogen’s Box / 10 & 11 (1998): 39-42
- Carousel / 12 (1999): [2]
- Editorial Note / 13 (1999): 3-4
- Coloins: / 13 (1999): 82-84
- Book Notes: AUP; Bumper Books / 13 (1999): 91-92
- Editorial Note / 14 (1999): 3-6
- Book Notes / 14 (1999): 109
- Editorial Note / 15 (2000): 5-6
- Sidelines / 16 (2000): 3
- AA Conversation / 16 (2000): 72-73
- Book Notes / 17 (2000): 94
- Editorial Note / 18 (2000): 5-7
- Circumstantial Set / 18 (2000): 59-61
- Editorial Note / 19 (2001): 3
- Conglomerate / 19 (2001): 41
- [& Alan Brunton] Questions and Answers / 19 (2001): 52-64
- Editorial Note / 20 (2001): 5-6
- Illustrative poem / 21 (2001): 51-52
- Editorial Note / 22 (2001): 3
- Editorial Note / 23 (2002): 3
- Pierrot souffle / 24 (2002): 48-49
- Notice: Sugu Pillay, The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories / 24 (2002): 81
- Tête-à-Text / 25 (2002): 87-98
- Modals; Extensives / 30 (2004): 28-33
- Two Poems / 33 (2006): 9-10
- Igatpuri, Dhamma Giri / 37 (2009): 50-51
- Colourless leaves / 38 (2009): 52
- Extrapolations / 41 (2010): 62-65
- Poems - Stunning Debut: Willy's return / 43 (2011): 6-21

Alison Glenny
- Mandoline / 38 (2009): 32

E Goodman
- [& W Ao] Translations of New Chinese Poetry / 37 (2009): 52-53

Uddipana Goswami
- Mother Goddess Kamakhya / 37 (2009): 54-58

Paula Green
- listing the breathless women / 1 (1995): 26-29
- from the test kitchen / 3 (1996): 11-14
- the house simply sparkling of itself … / 8 (1997): 24-29
- Afternoon Tea with Gertrude Stein / 15 (2000): 27-29
- in the dead of the night I hath inherited grace / 19 (2001): 20-21
- in the teeth of poetry / 21 (2001): 9-16
- Waitakere The Remarkables–Napoli / 25 (2002): 80-81
- Afternoon tea with Joanna P / 32 (2005): 87-88
- Review: Kendrick Smithyman: Campana to Montale / 32 (2005): 108-112

Tony Green
- If I were a painter; Body Constructs; For St. Valentine’s Day 1995 / 1 (1995): 38-40
- On John Geraets, Sanage Adventure Field / 1 (1995): 63-66
- Five poems / 2 (1996): 10-12
- Four poems / 3 (1996): 59-61
- I wandered lonely; Avalanche; Rough Draught / 4 (1996): 38-41
- Driven – A Rage / 5 (1997): 50-53
- The Tobacconist’s Windows / 6 (1997): 23-26
- At Night / 7 (1997): 49-52
- Something else … / 8 (1997): 20-23
- The Bellori File / 9 (1998): 24-28
- Los Angeles Notes; Dead Fingers Talk; Big Night Out / 10 & 11 (1998): 35-38
- poems / 13 (1999): 77-81
- New Space-Vehicles... / 14 (1999): 77-80
- Five Poems / 15 (2000): 7-10
- e-mails / 16 (2000): 12, 31, 80
- poem / 17 (2000): 25
- three pieces / 18 (2000): 64-67
- from accumulation / 19 (2001): 18-19
- 2 poems; splay / 19 (2001): 50-51
- Aesthetics After Blackpool / 20 (2001): 12-15
- Nymphs & Shepherds in Arcadia / 21 (2001): 36-37
- accumulation / 21 (2001): 44-46
- accumulations / 22 (2001): 59-62
- accumulations, news &tc / 23 (2002): 14-17
- news / 24 (2002): 54-57
- Alien Weltanschauung / 25 (2002): 71-74
- Accumulations, Walks & Broken Chain / 27 (2003): 37-40
- A Miscellany [2006 -2008] / 38 (2009): 80-83
- lines from SKETCHES 59–61 /40 (2010): 87-89

Thom G'Shrey
- [& Bill Direen] Birds & Telephones / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 2

Rogelio Guedea
- from Free Fall (Tr. Peter Broad and Sandra Merill) / 37 (2009): 70-72

H [22]

Sylvie Haisman
- Tendon / 1 (1995): 10-12

Bernadette Hall
- Bread for Isaiah / 32 (2005): 56-60

Sherry Hamid
- Rear Cover Image: “Sonar Hunter” / 42 (2011)

Scott Hamilton
- Two Letters / 16 (2000): 70-71
- Six Homages on Six Pink Slips! / 16 (2000): 74-79
- from Write / 18 (2000): 93-95
- Review: Smithyman, Last Poems / 25 (2002): 103-105
- i.m. Allen Curnow, 1911-2001 / 25 (2002): 111
- Reading Kendrick Smithyman / 26 (2003): 51-55
- To the Moon: in Seven Easy Steps / 27 (2003): 41
- [& Claudia Westmoreland] Alan Brunton and the Counterculture /28 (2003): 84-89
- Five Poems / 29 (2004): 66-67
- Review: Tom Raworth: Collected Poems / 29 (2004): 89-92
- My Back Pages / 30 (2004): 34
- The Man in the Panama Hat/ 31 (2004): 45-49
- [& Hamish Dewe] Opening the Green Door/ 31 (2004): 51-57
- The Five Lives of Donald Crowhurst / 32 (2005): 90-94
- Review: Jack Ross: Monkey Miss her Now / 32 (2005): 115-119
- Three Philosophical Defences / 33 (2006): 50-53
- More than Pain: Leicester Kyle 1937-2006 / 34 (2007): 12-18
- Private Gurney / 34 (2007): 84
- Bill’s Telescope / 34 (2007): 173-77
- From First to Fourth Gear / 34 (2007): 178-81
- Rescuing the Typewriter / 34 (2007): 182-85
- Franklin District Field Trips; Dream / 35 (2007): 4-8
- Review of To Terezin by Jack Ross / 35 (2007): 122-25
- Te Kakano Information Centre, Tuwhare / 36 (2008): 24-27
- Seeking 'a different reality principle': Review of The Rotten Elements by Edward Upward / 36 (2008): 119-24
- [& Bill Direen & S. Porter] Brief #36 CD (2008): track 4
- Shooting the Gods - To Wiremu Tamihana / 37 (2009): 41-47
- Eripene / 38 (2009): 57-58
- St. Joseph's - The Suicider - Self-criticism - The Inland Sea / 39 (2010): 59-67
- Twenty Theses Against Space and Time /40 (2010): 70-79
- On the Island /40 (2010): 90-97
- An Annotated Guide to Mungo National Park / 41 (2010): 82-90
- Crossing the Plains: a journey in twelve notes / 42 (2011): 89-95
- Blackbirding - The Law of Equivalence - The Parachutist - Five Dreams - Osip - Invitation to a Stoning / 43 (2011): 24-37

Paul Hardacre
- the shower-curtain you / 29 (2004): 32

Michael Harlow
- The Tower of Babel / 16 (2000): 4-11
- poem / 17 (2000): 69
- postcard section / 21 (2001): 67-68
- [& Kit Powell] Devotion to the Small /40 (2010): 98-116
- Take five: composition for words and music - Short talk on a Sunday afternoon with John Cage - Daybook of thought-songs - Sweeping the courtyard / 41 (2010): 14-18

Ian Harnett
- The Point of a Pin (i) / 13 (1999): 20-31
- The Point of a Pin (ii) / 14 (1999): 63-76
- The Point of a Pin (iii) / 15 (2000): 63-78
- The Old Scaling Tree / 21 (2001): 25-31
- The Castle of Olympus: Adventures in Mixed Genres / 22 (2001): 12-20
- Strata Jumping in the Silky Vade Mecum / 23 (2002): 67-71
- A Pair of Foxes Dressed in Drag / 24 (2002): 45-47
- Rhizome Riders / 25 (2002): 65-68
- Spam Spider Hack / 27 (2003): 42-45

Geoff Harrington
- Untitled / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 18

Ngahuia Harrison
- A Day of Visiting - Dirt / 41 (2010): 80-81

Siobhan Harvey
- Review: Paula Green: Crosswinds & Sonja Yelich: Clung / 30 (2004): 117-18
- How To Survive Election Night / 33 (2006): 134

Dinah Hawken
- Where We Say We Are / 16 (2000): 17-22

Helen
- Ephemeral / 21 (2001): 23

George Henderson
- My Spunky Little Friend, or, the Suburban Sub-Umbra, The Nerve, The old songbook, The Last Original Song / 36 (2008): 88-95

Mary Heney
- [& SEP] Shade / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 5

Cameron Hockly
- Watching / 38 (2009): 79

David Hornblow
- post modern girl / 30 (2004): 35

Marie Horner
- Cover : Familiar Monuments – Drawers / 4 (1996)

Roger Horrocks
- Takeaways / 4 (1996): 7-13
- Review of Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life by Leigh Davis / 41 (2010): 94-102

David Howard
- There You Go / 24 (2002): 27-32
- Overburden / 29 (2004): 52
- [& Kim Pieters] The Harrier Suite / 30 (2004): 36-41
- Joanna Paul at Wanganui / 32 (2005): 89
- Call for Material: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie / 32 (2005): 112
- Unemployment - Paperwork / 43 (2011): 67-70

Evelyn M Hulse
- [& Greville Texidor] San Toni / 34 (2007): 85-109

Janet Hunt
- Land as text (1) & (2)/ 5 (1997): 32-35
- the dog in St Kevin’s arcade / 6 (1997): 7
- woman at the gate; palimpsest / 7 (1997): 16-18
- So Long / 10 & 11 (1998): 13
- Williamson Avenue, 1999 / 14 (1999): 12-13
- Template for Persistence... / 16 (2000): 32-33
- Alan Loney: Printer/Poet: Considerations / 17 (2000): 3-10
- Lace / 18 (2000): 62-63

John Hurrell
- Cover art / 7 (1997)

I [4]

Ibykos [trans. Ted Jenner]
- 22 Love Songs / 10 & 11 (1998): 29-34

Simon Ingram
- design / 16 (2000): 42-43
- inside covers: pageworks / 23 (2002)

May Iremonger
- Endpapers / 27 (2003)
- Whaha mana hinanga / 29 (2004): 5
- all hot air / 29 (2004): 80
- they say that ... / 33 (2006): 135

Mariana Isara
- ink jet transfusion / 38 (2009): 59-60

J [9]

Anna Jackson
- Sidetracks / 17 (2000): 86-93
- Correspondence / 18 (2000): 36-39
- In and out of the museum. / 19 (2001): 4-6
- poems / 21 (2001): 75-77
- The sublime in New Zealand poetry / 21 (2001): 82-86
- poems / 22 (2001): 45-46
- Kindness to horses / 23 (2002): 65-66
- Departmental Cats / 26 (2003): 75

Simon Jackson
- Question Mark - Apostrophe - The boy who didn't like bananas - 100 Years of the Poetry Society / 41 (2010): 3-5

Ted Jenner
- Francis Ponge: Eight Prose Poems / 2 (1996): 5-9
- Constellations; Writers in Residence / 4 (1996): 14-18
- Francis Ponge: Three Prose Poems / 8 (1997): 54-57
- Ibykos: 22 Love Songs / 10 & 11 (1998): 29-34
- A Concise Natural History of Southern Malawi / 15 (2000): 44-50
- WOMAN. CHILD. WATER. FULL MOON / 17 (2000): 41
- Wishbone / 20 (2001): 21
- Luminous Details: Malawi 1998-2001/ 21 (2001): 17-22
- Aisthesis / 23 (2002): 11-13
- Letter / 26 (2003): 114
- The Gold Leaves / 27 (2003): 46-53
- A Miller’s Chaff: Malawi 2002-2004 / 31 (2004): 38-44
- Pieces / 34 (2007): 166-72
- Impressions of Africa / 35 (2007): 91
- PROPERTIUS 2.11 / 36 (2008): 41
- Review of Papyri by Jack Ross / 36 (2008): 111-13
- Spinning A Soft Endless Web / 37 (2009): 2-7
- Mandolin - motuihe midden / 39 (2010): 74-75
- [& John Dickson] Front Cover: “After Hours Return” / 40 (2010)
- Editor's Note /40 (2010): 2-3
- The Alimentary and the Anthroposcene: Review of Enclosures by Bill Direen /40 (2010): 119-22
- No Problem but not Easy: Review of The Tramconductor’s Blue Cap by Michael Harlow /40 (2010): 123-30
- Back Cover: “There We Go” / 40 (2010)
- from Genius Loci / 42 (2011): 7-8
- 'Wet traffic ghosting through the night' / 43 (2011): 78-83

Alex Wild Jespersen
- from The Constant Losers / 37 (2009): 92-95

Dale Johnson
- Permanent Change / 41 (2010): 91-93

Mike Johnson
- Commuting to Waiheke / 37 (2009): 8-9

Tracey Johnson
- Deconstructing the Pakeha Gaze: Whale Rider / 33 (2006): 115-19

Marion Jones
- Chest, Fence / 34 (2007): 165
- Apparition / 39 (2010): 58
- Degrees of Whiteness - Sasha / 41 (2010): 6-7
- 4 Poems / 42 (2011): 16-17

D. Jotti
- [& Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul] A red line … / 22 (2001): 47-52

K [8]

Lesley Kaiser [& John Barnett]
- Oh Damn! / 1 (1995): 67-68
- O / 3 (1996): 36-39
- every wall / 4 (1996): 52-53
- Better the blind man … / 5 (1997): 44-47
- Cover design / 6 (1997)
- Stone is more stony … / 6 (1997): 8-9
- Losing improves your character / 7 (1997): 22-25
- nothing is more certain than death / 8 (1997): 30-33
- Translations from the Japanese / 9 (1998): 15-19
- ANNOUNCEMENTS / 10 & 11 (1998): 20-21
- These days... / 14 (1999): 86-87
- INCREASE the PEACE / 15 (2000): 43
- seeing is when you forget … / 16 (2000): 50-51
- Everything is how it is … / 19 (2001): 35
- adapted from ‘Here We Are Now” / 20 (2001): 30-31
- ANAESTHETICS: a brief description of How the mind works / 21 (2001): 42-43
- When ideas fail / 22 (2001): 10-11
- Words come in handy / 22 (2001): 74-75
- Never tell the trouble / 23 (2002): 52-53
- When ideas fail... / 23 (2002): 64
- Bat Masterson Said / 24 (2002): 14
- What would you like to do? … / 25 (2002): 57, 59, 61
- Shrewd Move / 27 (2003): 54
- Know So / 28 (2003): 35-39 [+ 2]
- Walking the crooked line / 31 (2004): 22-23

Greg Kan
- 3 Poems / 42 (2011): 13

Matthew Kelly [aka Matty K.]
- Cover: “Vet Cemetary” / 27 (2003)
- Batfish / 30 (2004): 5
- Collin the Animal / 31 (2004): 4
- Cover image / 35 (2007)

Jan Kemp
- The past present/s / 29 (2004): 43-44
- The Cook, the ‘Consul’ & the Crazyman / 30 (2004): 42-61

Wanjiku Kiarie
- [& Martin Sanderson] From Oxford to Waimaramara / 33 (2006): 84-104

Richard Killeen
- Excursion poster / 28 (2003): 5
- New Hope poster / 28 (2003): 34

Gyorgy Kostritsky
- from 100 Days / 30 (2004): 62-63

Leicester Kyle
- Koroneho: Joyful News Out Of The New Found World / 6 (1997): 10-19
- from Koroneho / 7 (1997): 35-40
- from Koroneho / 8 (1997): 62-67
- from Koroneho / 9 (1998): 49-54
- Comparative Atmospheric Pressure …; On Forest Culture / 10 & 11 (1998): 43-47
- Marlowe overwritten / 13 (1999): 36-39
- On The Principle Of New Zealand Weather / 14 (1999): 57-62
- Errata / 15 (2000): 86
- Mr. Buller To... / 16 (2000): 84
- A Voyge to New Zealand / 18 (2000): 12-21
- On The Great Buller Coal Plateau / 19 (2001): 38-40
- Sign-off/ 20 (2001): 66-67
- Mr Muir and Mr Emerson / 24 (2002): 75-77
- from Dancing in the Cave / 25 (2002): 58, 60, 62
- On Birchfield Fen / 27 (2003): 55-56
- Spawning Galaxis / 29 (2004): 57
- Death of a Landscape / 31 (2004): 83-92
- Peninsula Days / 32 (2005): 61-64
- A Letter from Buller / 33 (2006): 44-45
- Three Poems / 34 (2007): 27-29

L [12]

Jenny Lawn
- [& Mary Paul] Notice: Antipodean Gothic Conference / 24 (2002): 82

Jessica Le Bas
- the angel/nurse / 33 (2006): 109

Michele Leggott
- Dove; Hesperides / 2 (1996): 36-47
- a woman, a rose, and what has it to do with her … / 7 (1997): 7-15
- snake & jewel / 10 & 11 (1998): 3-8
- Let there be couscous / 22 (2001): 21-37
- Let there be couscous (part 2) / 23 (2002): 76-93
- Angels and Oracles / 24 (2002): 10-13
- m i l k o f a l m o n d s / w h i t e m a g n o l i a / 25 (2002): 34-38
- [& Sally Rodwell] Notice: Alan Brunton, Fq / 25 (2002): 107
- ‘An Egyptian day for the mandarin’: The Excursion 1982/2001 / 28 (2003): 26
- [& Martin Edmond, Sally Rodwell] Bumper Books checklist / 28 (2003): 40-41
- I dreamed your book was written and the great So praised it / 28 (2003): 103-04
- Cairo Vessel / 29 (2004): 6-12
- [& Sally Rodwell] Notice: Alan Brunton, Grooves of Glory / 30 (2004): 116

Graham Lindsay
- Residence in silence; After-dinner speech; Mirror / 1 (1995): 30-33
- Gulf; Legend of the cool secret / 6 (1997): 40-43
- Sea of friends; Password; Russian dolls / 7 (1997): 42-43
- Taxi / 9 (1998): 46-48
- Dance of the apple pickers / 13 (1999): 59-67
- making lovE / 14 (1999): 38-41
- Four Poems / 15 (2000): 51-54
- big feet: the ballad of fanny gracE / 16 (2000): 34-39
- talking to Alan Loney... i, ii, iii / 17 (2000): 11-17, 31-3, 80-85
- four poems / 18 (2000): 8-11
- eyebrighT; chinK; particle and wavE / 19 (2001): 65-69
- ‘Dear John’ / 21 (2001): 6-8

Barry Linton
- Red Mole posters / 28 (2003): 77 & 82

Alan Loney
- On Clarity / 1 (1995): 3-5
- The Path of the Text / 2 (1996): 3-4
- Defamiliarizing the Familiars / 3 (1996): 3-5
- Who do I write for? / 4 (1996): 3-6
- Parallax revisited / 5 (1997): 1-5
- A place to go / 6 (1997): 3-6
- “What are poets for?” / 7 (1997): 3-6
- The Other Tradition / 8 (1997): 3-6
- from Fragmenta Nova / 13 (1999): 5-13
- from Fragmenta nova / 15 (2000): 18-26
- A BRIEFE DISCRIPTION of the whole WORLD … / 15 (2000): 37
- endless beginnings / 17 (2000): 61-68
- Alan Loney talking to Graham Lindsay... i, ii, iii / 17 (2000): 11-17, 31-3, 80-85
- Megaphonos / 22 (2001): 53-58
- a propos(ition / 23 (2002): 54-56

Mike Love
- At the gates of conscious; construction zone / 30 (2004): 65-66
- Notes from Dunedin to Blenheim and Back / 33 (2006): 25-26

David Loving-Molloy
- Three recent poems / 30 (2004): 67

Lucebert [trans. Ricci van Elburg]
- Poems / 31 (2004): 58-71

Elmar Ludwig
- Review of Kingdom of Alt by Jack Ross / 41 (2010): 103-06

Pete Lusk
- Leicester on the Coast / 34 (2007): 25-26

Len Lye
- from “Night Tree” / 3 (1996): 6-10

M [25]

Olivia Macassey
- Otesánek / 24 (2002): 24-26
- The uncanny truth about Abelard / 25 (2002): 39-41
- Review: Jack Ross, Chantal’s Book / 27 (2003): 101-102
- love in the age of mechanical reproduction: 1 / 29 (2004): 19-20
- Chinchillas … / 30 (2004): 4, 8, 12, 27, 35, 41, 64, 81, 97
- You Are My Sunshine / 30 (2004): 68-69
- Two Poems / 34 (2007): 55-58
- The Internal Eel; The reflecting pool; Dissent / 35 (2007): 9-13
- Review of Free Range Poems; ed. Miriam Barr / 35 (2007): 104-105
- Persephone / 36 (2008): 44-45
- The Death of Porthos / 40 (2010): 117-18

Heather McCann
- Tale Telling and the Construction of Identity / 26 (2003): 76-81

Nathan MacGregor
- Pages from a Journal / 33 (2006): 110-14
- Drawings / 35 (2007): 41, 59
- Wolf Moon Rising / 35 (2007): 64-65
- For Don / 37 (2009): 39-40

Zarah McGunnigle
- This would go on / 41 (2010): 53

Sally McIntyre
- Jeanne d’Arc; stations / 35 (2007): 42-49

Robert McLean
- A Review of Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Speech! Speech!’ / 33 (2006): 76

John Macnamara
- portrait of the artist threatened by his breakfast / 29 (2004): front cover
- The Marquis de Blok-ma exhibits at the Salon Merde / 29 (2004): inside front cover
- Adam and Eve hiding from the Angel / 29 (2004): inside back cover
- Letter / 31 (2004): 116-17

Harvey McQueen
- A Nativity Week Leave Taking / 27 (2003): 57-60
- Reading Howe’s The Quest for Origin … / 31 (2004): 93-94

Magnetic Pain
- Sold in China / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 25

Bruce Malcolm
- [& John Geraets] Helix / 1 (1995): 59-62

Bill Manhire
- old song new song / 21 (2001): 59-61

Marineville
- Here I am / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 21

Alan Marshall
- Where did all those years go? / 34 (2007): 61

Theresia Liemlienio Marshall
- Kendrick Smithyman / 26 (2003): 94-100
- yarn-spinning / 27 (2003): 61-62
- Review: Paul Sharrad, Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature / 29 (2004): 93-100
- harbour-bridging / 30 (2004): 70

Chris Matthews
- O My Soul / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 3

Mario Melendez
- Black Symphony; The Daughter of Rimbaud / 35 (2007): 58-59
Mercator's Map
- Kieran Monaghan / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 14

Antony Milton
- PseudoArcana / 36 (2008): 7-15
- A Brief Tenure / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 1

Miles Mina
- Mashin' / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 17

Thomas Mitchell
- Next to El Proximo / 25 (2002): 42

Gjoko Mohabihr
- Alas Glas / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 12

Harvey Molloy
- Il est Minuit / 36 (2008): 87

Michael Morrissey
- Reading about Poland / 35 (2007): 75
- Pre-Posthumous Meditation on Keats /40 (2010): 19
- 52 Questions in the Reel Life of a Stone Washed Man / 41 (2010): 66-73
- The (My) House / 42 (2011): 48-57

Edward Mulete
- Subject: Urgent Assistance / 25 (2002): 70

Sheila E Murphy
- Two poems / 3 (1996): 48-49

N [2]

Di(ana) Nash
- There are gardens / 1 (1995): 34-36
- Moon above … / 2 (1996): 13
- Valkyrie Poems / 4 (1996): 19-23
- A shimmer crescent … / 5 (1997): 56-57

Christopher Neilson
- Alchemical Introduction; Crane-Women, Fox-Men / 1 (1995): 23-24
- Susan / 4 (1996): 64-65

O [9]

Gregory O’Brien
- On Aesthetics / 20 (2001): 50-52
- Guide to Provençal Usage / 30 (2004): 71-77

Denis O’Connor
- Cover: Big Aitche, Little Aitche / 3 (1996)
- MAANE / 6 (1997): 21

John O’Connor
- Two Poems / 15 (2000): 79-80
- Four poems / 24 (2002): 60-61
- The Orchid; Goblet / 27 (2003): 63
- Haiku: Public Health Warning / 32 (2005): 100-102

Michael O’Leary
- [& Alan Brunton] Answers to the Small Press Questionnaire / 28 (2003): 42

Stephen Oliver
- One Night at the Duke, c.1969 / 28 (2003): 97-98
- Containing a broken column; Industrial tableau / 30 (2004): 78-79
- O Say Can You Hear? / 34 (2007): 32-33

Rachel O'Neill
- Embarking on her other names / 38 (2009): 27-29

Michael Onslow-Osborne
- two poems / 16 (2000): 40-41
- #9 Imperatives / 18 (2000): 52-54
- Pre-Millennial Tinnitus: Noise-bytes 1999-2000 / 18 (2000): 79-90
- poems / 21 (2001): 78-81

Vincent O’Sullivan
- Homecoming / 34 (2007): 30

Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway
- Roman Numerals / 30 (2004): 80-81

P [18]

Fiona Pardington
- Five Pieces / 14 (1999): 81-85
- Four Poems / 15 (2000): 81-84
- Job Description / 16 (2000): 82-83
- I like, I don’t like / 18 (2000): 91-92

John Parkyn
- Night of the Elephants / 39 (2010): 47-57

Alistair Paterson
- Two after Randall Jarrell / 24 (2002): 62-63

Joanna Margaret Paul
- HEAD caput CUP; NEURON NERVE thread; haematopoetic / 5 (1997): 20-25
- Cover drawing / 8 (1997)
- Colour Diary / 8 (1997): 18-19
- front cover: “Beta Street” (1981) / 32 (2005)
- back cover: “Inventories;” “Inventories (bedroom);” “Inventories VI (living)” (1977) / 32 (2005)
- Illustrations from “Rooms and Episodes” / 32 (2005): 5, 12, 33 & 119
- A Passionate Pilgrimage in Time / 32 (2005): 6-12
- Rooms and Episodes: 1 – Album / 32 (2005): 34-41
- from Rooms and Episodes: 2 – Written at St Omer / 32 (2005): 42-55
- from Songs of Seven Seasons / 32 (2005): 65-84

Mary Paul
- [& Jenny Lawn] Notice: Antipodean Gothic Conference / 24 (2002): 82

Kathleen Peacock
- Foreign Bodies in the Ear; Rosemary Touches Elizabeth / 25 (2002): 43-44

Graeme Perrin
- Saltworks (extract) 9th work - Down South (i) / 37 (2009): 88

Frank Pervan
- To Ron Riddell / 33 (2006): 59

Emma Phillipps
- that we move from plastic / 38 (2009): 5-6

Kim Pieters
- [& David Howard] The Harrier Suite / 30 (2004): 36-41

Sugu Pillay
- Not a Love Story / 1 (1995): 15-18
- Work in Progress / 2 (1996): 27-31
- The Daughters of Kunti / 3 (1996): 40-47
- Work in Progress / 4 (1996): 42
- A Krishnapallavi for Hari / 5 (1997): 6-19
- Work in Progress / 6 (1997): 48-51
- reading the tradition … / 7 (1997): 62-65
- The Lungs of the Globe / 8 (1997): 68-75
- The Word Pitcher / 13 (1999): 40-49
- The Lungs Of The Globe / 14 (1999): 42-56
- Lovers Discourse / 15 (2000): 11-15
- two poems / 16 (2000): 60-61
- two poems / 18 (2000): 50-51
- Two Poems / 19 (2001): 36-37
- Two Poems / 20 (2001): 41-42
- 1st January 2003 / 27 (2003): 64
- Tradition & the Poet II / 30 (2004): 82-87
- 9/11 and Me / 34 (2007): 113-15
- The Tree in its Setting - Lindis Pass /40 (2010): 15-16

Mark Pirie
- White Wash / 24 (2002): 51-53
- call guy / 25 (2002): 69
- Notice: HeadworX – New Releases in 2002 / 25 (2002): 105
- Kendrick Smithyman and Louis Johnson / 26 (2003): 83-85
- Two Poems – An Impression of the Sea / 27 (2003): 65-70
- Alan Brunton as Publisher; The Day A.B. died; Flâneur / 28 (2003): 93-96
- Sonnets to Spam; After Bataille / 29 (2004): 26-27
- More Sonnets to Spam / 31 (2004): 72-75

Bill Pitt
- Aranda Snow, Village, End / 36 (2008): 19-22
- Native Poet / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 22

Francis Ponge [trans. Ted Jenner]
- Eight Prose Poems / 2 (1996): 5-9
- Three Prose Poems / 8 (1997): 54-57

Ellen Portch
- Cover images / 34 (2007)
- Cover image: “Green” / 39 (2010)
- Cover: “untitled", from the series Wall (2010) / 43 (2011)

S. Porter
- Word In Your Ear / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 27
- [& Scott Hamilton & Bill Direen] Brief #36 CD (2008): track 4
- [& Bill Direen] Sunday Mix / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 13

Kit Powell
- [& Michael Harlow] Devotion to the Small /40 (2010): 98-116

Ian Prior
- The Last Days of Mankind (1979) / 28 (2003): inside back cover

Q [1]

Andrea Quinlan
- 2 Poems from Sedmikrásky /41 (2010): 8-9
- A History of Haarige / 42 (2011): 38-39

R [13]

Michael Radich
- diptych / 1 (1995): 13-14
- Chapter 1; three footnotes to an MA thesis; shibboleth / 1 (1995): 51-55
- heretical si(g)nologies (1) & (2) / 3 (1996): 24-29
- Across / 4 (1996): 78-80
- Etude #1: How to Say in English / 5 (1997): 36-39
- truth, will, out; me and things; the grass again / 7 (1997): 58-61
- he zhizhang: sing willow … / 8 (1997): 7-17
- pine; matins at the ok coral; oh no, not lyric! / 10 & 11 (1998): 22-24
- two views / 13 (1999): 14-19
- What is the reference / 13 (1999): 76
- the ruins of anchor what / 14 (1999): 105-108
- Read the paper / 15 (2000): 55
- four pages / 16 (2000): 13-16
- sayonara, say your not a / 18 (2000): 55-58
- noise lyric / 19 (2001): 42-47
- writing2 / 20 (2001): 43-46
- ‘Do Not Write In This Space’ / 22 (2001): 92-95
- what the snow said / 23 (2002): 26-27
- Open letter to Jack Ross / 26 (2003): 112-13
- Prosaic Times; so-so / 27 (2003): 71-73

Mel Rands
- 4 Texts / 42 (2011): 85-88

Vaughan Rapatahana
- Aotearoa blues, baby - Encounter – Rata villa, Ngawhatu – wharenui / 39 (2010): 24-32
- old Tom - from father through son to son / 40 (2010): 24-29
- no surface - pestilence - at Waikanae / 41 (2010): 26-33
- 4 Poems / 42 (2011): 33-37
- ko mutu inaianei - no kai - Whetumatarau / 43 (2011): 50-54

Jacques ReBrellion
- Madeleine / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 9

Richard Reeve
- Uptake /40 (2010): 14

Nicholas Reid
- Ill-Clothed But Widely Read / 33 (2006): 128-30

Manon Revuelta
- Meadowable - Voice, The - Re-veal / 41 (2010): 45-47
- sleeve red of milken bees ... / 43 (2011): 5

Ron Riddell
- In El Teatro Exfanfarria / 28 (2003): 100

Lisa Robertson
- two from Debbie: an epic / 2 (1996): 32-35

Sally Rodwell
- [& Michele Leggott] Notice: Alan Brunton, Fq / 25 (2002): 107
- Excursion Production images / 28 (2003): 6, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 25
- [& Martin Edmond, Michele Leggott] Bumper Books checklist / 28 (2003): 40-41
- [& Michele Leggott] Notice: Alan Brunton, Grooves of Glory / 30 (2004): 116

Jack Ross
- The Great Hunger / 14 (1999): 34-37
- Jack’s Metamorphoses / 15 (2000): 57-62
- Dieting / 16 (2000): 62-69
- An Inside Narrative: Recent Works by Alan Loney / 17 (2000): 70-79
- In the Cave of Henry James / 18 (2000): 28-35
- Jack’s Metamorphoses (Part 2) / 19 (2001): 70-79
- Case Studies / 20 (2001): 23-29
- Alan Loney : John O’Connor : John Geraets / 22 (2001): 63-73
- Tahiti in 1978 / 23 (2002): 36-50
- Editorial / 24 (2002): 3
- Hybrid Art / 24 (2002): 41-44
- Review: Alan Loney, The Falling: A Memoir / 24 (2002): 78-79
- Editorial / 25 (2002): 3-6
- Hong Kong – 2001/ 25 (2002): 13-16
- Notice: brief Writer’s Award / 25 (2002): 109
- Editorial / 26 (2003): 3-4
- Kendrick Smithyman: A Chronology / 26 (2003): 5-8
- Jack’s Hole / 26 (2003): 9
- The Firpo Essay / 26 (2003): 56
- Occasional Verses / 26 (2003): 92
- [& Margaret Edgcumbe] Life with Kendrick / 26 (2003): 103-09
- Review: Smithyman, Imperial Vistas Family Fictions / 26 (2003): 115-116
- Editorial / 27 (2003): 3-4
- Anamorphoses / 27 (2003): 74-76
- Review: Leicester Kyle, Five Anzac Liturgies / 27 (2003): 98
- Editorial: In the Spirit of Crazy Horse / 28 (2003): 3-4
- Review: F**y you, Faerie Queene – Alan Brunton’s Fq / 28 (2003): 116-22
- Editorial: The Secrets behind my Smile … / 29 (2004): 3-4
- Postcards / 29 (2004): 62-65
- Reviews: Paul Hardacre; Howard & Pardington; Anne Kennedy; Graham Lindsay; John O’Connor & Eric Mould; Alistair Paterson; Mark Pirie; John Pule / 29 (2004): 81-84
- Editorial: WARUM die KUNST? / 30 (2004): 3-4
- Days Under Water / 30 (2004): 88-91
- Reviews: Murray Edmond & Joanna Forsberg; Harvey McQueen; Basim Furat; Guyon Neutze & Jürgen Waibel; Mark Pirie; Niel Wright / 30 (2004): 109-11
- Review: William Direen: Jules / 30 (2004): 115
- Editorial: brief goes political … / 31 (2004): 3 & 5-6
- Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown / 31 (2004): 76-79
- Editorial: i.m. Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003) / 32 (2005): 3-4
- Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) / 32 (2005): 95-98
- Reviews: Brian Bell; Alan Brunton; Sue Fitchett; Michael Harlow, Anne Kennedy; Michele Leggott; C. K. Stead / 32 (2005): 103-107
- In Defence of Tracey Slaughter / 33 (2006): 35-37
- Smithyman Goes Online / 33 (2006): 60-62
- From the Twilight Kingdom / 33 (2006): 106-108
- Ancestral Voices (part one) / 33 (2006): 139-48
- For Leicester Hugo Kyle / 34 (2007): 6-11
- The Purloined Letter / 35 (2007): 14-33
- Extract from EMO / 36 (2008): 31-40
- Climbing off the Barricades: Review of Dream Boat: Selected Poems, by Tony Beyer & A Good Handful ed. Stu Bagby / 36 (2008): 114-18
- [& P. Fischlinger] The Cat / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 7
- In Love with the Chinese Novel / 37 (2009): 10-28
- The Assassination Weapon - Anzac Day / 38 (2009): 46-48
- Review of Martin Edmond's The Supply Party / 38 (2009): 89-93
- from The Puppet Oresteia / 39 (2010): 33-42
- Memoirs from beyond the Grave - Badges - Sor Juana lnés de la Cruz /40 (2010): 9-13
- Celanie: 5 Versions from Paul Celan / 41 (2010): 54-59
- Johnsons or Shits: Mike Johnson’s Travesty / 42 (2011): 40-44

K. M. Ross
- The Demon Home / 24 (2002): 17-18
- from Falling Through the Architect / 25 (2002): 45-48
- Rambo; Dumped / 27 (2003): 77-82
- Sun’s Lid / 29 (2004): 53-56
- Tripping / 30 (2004): 92-95
- Out and Out / 31 (2004): 80-82
- Exile and the Wolf / 33 (2006): 41-43
- The Art of. .. / 34 (2007): 116-19
- Te lka / 35 (2007): 83-87
- Review of Song of the Brakeman by Bill Direen / 35 (2007): 120-21
- The Clay Monster / 36 (2008): 83-86
- Venusian Transit / 37 (2009): 32-38
- Thrash / 39 (2010): 3-9
- The Headless: Lucy /40 (2010): 66-69
- The Headless: Coleop / 41 (2010): 10-13
- Ballad of the Kitchen Corner / 42 (2011): 58-62

Anna Rugis
- Four Poems / 30 (2004): 96-97
- Travelling Light / 38 (2009): 72
- She tries to explain that thing she doesn't do Exploding the Myth - Shift – Humidity Marmalade Pudding /40 (2010): 51-55

S [18]

Lisa Samuels
- Coop / 38 (2009): 18-22
- Envoi - Love story - adorno - from Tender Girl / 39 (2010): 109-15
- Haptic radio / 41 (2010): 42-44
- from Life Sentence / 43 (2011): 59-66

Martin Sanderson
- [& Wanjiku Kiarie] From Oxford to Waimaramara / 33 (2006): 84-104
- Transport / 34 (2007): 162

SEP
- [& Mary Heney] Shade / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 5

Sarah Shieff
- Transports of delight: wonder and the time-based arts / 21 (2001): 53-58

Michael Shield
- Review: Sugu Pillay, The Chandrasekhar Limit / 27 (2003): 99-100
- Review: Mason: Four Short Stories & Duggan: A Voice for the Minotaur / 29 (2004): 87-88

Ron Silliman
- What is to be Done / 34 (2007): 40-45

Gus Simonovic
- One of Us / 38 (2009): 70-71

Peter Simpson
- The Smithyman Papers: A Preliminary Description / 26 (2003): 11-18
- Fq: Roadman’s last Quest / 28 (2003): 78-83

Emma Smith
- Cover: “Wolfwhistler” (2007) / 38 (2009)

Phoebe Smith
- Duckpond / 36 (2008): 42-43

Alexandra Smithyman
- Kendrick Smithyman / 26 (2003): 110-11

Kendrick Smithyman
- The Hole that Jack Dug / 26 (2003): 10
- Uncollected Northland Poems / 26 (2003): 19-49
- Beginnings, Golden Weathers, and Firpo / 26 (2003): 57-74
- Occasional Verses / 26 (2003): 93
- Imitations of Neruda / 27 (2003): 83-86
- Te Kopuru / 33 (2006): 66-74
- Haworth Parsonage / 33 (2006): 120-21
- Three War Poems / 34 (2007): 76-82

Sponge
- Moon in the Moog / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 16

C. K. Stead
- The Real Thing / 4 (1996): 54

Michael Steven
- Anthology; Brutes; Aubade / 35 (2007): 38-40
- Review of To the Moon, In Seven Easy Steps by Scott Hamilton / 35 (2007): 117-19
- Silver Paint, Custody / 36 (2008): 29-30
- Six Poems by Samuel Beckett / 37 (2009): 78-79
- Here, the Lovers - Blackburn's Last Strut /40 (2010): 48-50

Olwyn Stewart
- [& Paul Amlehn] I write these despicable lines / 35 (2007): 60
- Review of Marked Men by David Lyndon Brown / 35 (2007): 126-27

Judi Stout
- Andy Warhol’s Diaries / 3 (1996): 15-20
- On the feast of Stephen / 8 (1997): 40-45
- The Muscles / 14 (1999): 18-22
- The Muscles / 15 (2000): 16-17
- Rods and Cones / 19 (2001): 8-9
- Artifice of Absorption / 19 (2001): 48-49
- Intent / 23 (2002): 62-63

Chris Stroffolino
- Inner Cone & Ant / 25 (2002): 75-76

T [5]

Henry Talbot
- Milk / 33 (2006): 31-34
- Native / 34 (2007): 164
- Sunshine / 35 (2007): 88-90

Richard Taylor
- Review: Nights with Giordano Bruno / 19 (2001): 14-17
- The Infinite Poem (Part One) / 24 (2002): 64-69
- from Chains / 25 (2002): 63-64
- Letter; from Chains (2) / 26 (2003): 101-02
- The enclosed “work” / 27 (2003): 87-90
- On Moonshine / 28 (2003): 90-92
- re: brief submissions etc / 29 (2004): 60-61
- from Hospital / 30 (2004): 98-108
- Class 4AcA, Tamaki College (1963) / 32 (2005): 113
- The Panmure Tavern Songbook / 33 (2006): 54-58
- A Refusal to Explicate Te Kopuru / 33 (2006): 63-65
- Leicester Kyle (Friend, poet, and scientist) / 34 (2007): 19-24
- The Policeman Still Has Two / 34 (2007): 156-58
- from The Infinite Poem; Untitled / 35 (2007): 61-63
- Eyelight / 36 (2008): 46-64
- [& Brett Cross & Bill Direen] Editorial: Manifesta of (dys-)organised sound / 36 (2008): 3-5
- The Things Smiling / Brief #36 CD (2008): track 23
- from Eyelight / 37 (2009): 84-87
- Marchenbilder / 38 (2009): 23
- Cold Moving Coldness - It Would Be a Mistake Not to Rise / 39 (2010): 68-70
- Review of EMO by Jack Ross / 39 (2010): 116-21
- Reading Things /40 (2010): 80-86
- again) - we did the Name Thing (when she was certain) / 41 (2010): 50-52

Greville Texidor
- [& Evelyn M Hulse] San Toni / 34 (2007): 85-109

Orchid Tierney
- 4 Poems / 42 (2011): 22-25

Giovanni Tiso
- Too Loud a Solitude: Bohumil Hrabal / 42 (2011): 80-82
- The Canto of Ulysses / 43 (2011): 84-89

V [6]

Ricci van Elburg
- Lucebert / 31 (2004): 58-71

Gareth van Sambeek
- from Transgender Horse / 38 (2009): 33-37

Various Artists
- Field Recording at Galbraith’s Alehouse / 33 (2006): 4-7

Paul Veart
- In lieu of flowers - John Logan’s Long Shadow / 42 (2011): 70-78

Alex von Huhen
- the poem / 35 (2007): 57

Richard von Sturmer
- Winter at Chapin Mill / 15 (2000): 30-36
- Seclusion / 16 (2000): 24-30
- Across the Tasman / 16 (2000): 52-53
- The Desert / 18 (2000): 40-49
- In Transit / 19 (2001): 22-28
- Mysterious Beauty / 20 (2001): 32-35
- Antonello da Messina / 20 (2001): 47-49
- Some Minor Disturbances / 21 (2001): 62-66
- Myths / 22 (2001): 89-91
- Working with Nagarjuna / 23 (2002): 4-10
- Blue Mountains / 24 (2002): 19-23
- Red Mountains / 25 (2002): 53-56
- Sentient Dreams / 27 (2003): 91-93
- Great Barrier Notes; Barrier Crossings / 28 (2003): 105-15
- Fits and Starts / 29 (2004): 71-78
- While You’re Away / 31 (2004): 106-109
- Walking / 33 (2006): 11-12
- Old Ezra / 34 (2007): 70-75
- This World (and None Other) / 35 (2007): 69-74
- Plague Days, Bus Notes / 36 (2008): 66-80
- from Fabulae / 37 (2009): 82-83
- Train Notes / 38 (2009): 53-55
- Yes / 39 (2010): 76-79
- Conversations with Clarice /40 (2010): 4-8
- Cover: from "Straps on Railway Freight Carriages” / 41 (2010)
- Editor's Note / 41 (2010): 2
- Six Book of Equanimity Verses / 41 (2010): 60-61
- Crossing the Mind / 42 (2011): 32
- We Batten On / 43 (2011): 38-49

W [13]

Noel Waite
- Alan Loney’s shifting texts / 17 (2000): 51-60

Barrett Watten
- What is to be criticized / 34 (2007): 46-52
- War = Language / 34 (2007): 53-54

Ian Wedde
- Beauty, Sex, Heroism / 22 (2001): 40-44

Lorraine West
- The Yellow Room / 27 (2003): 94-96
- The Inorganic Collection / 29 (2004): 23

Claudia Westmoreland
- [& Scott Hamilton] Alan Brunton and the Counterculture /28 (2003): 84-89

Lydia Wevers
- & Reading Alan Loney / 17 (2000): 18-24

Gabriel White
- Alphaghetti - The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis / 37 (2009): 96-114

Anya Whitlock
- Cover image / 33 (2006)
- from Anya’s Sketchy Zine / 33 (2006): 21-22

Mark Wills
- To – Michael Radich / 1 (1995): 37
- Cover / 2 (1996)
- Michael and I are still … / 3 (1996): 21-23
- from The Clystergame / 4 (1996): 33-37
- from The Cleistogame / 9 (1998): 32-35
- Bonfire / 5 (1997): 40-43

Elizabeth Wilson
- FOR WE GO AHAWKING … / 1 (1995): 19-22
- ‘If this can be called thinking’ / 2 (1996): 14-15
- X / 3 (1996): 30-35
- aninsistentmaterialism … / 4 (1996): 24-27
- mouth to mouth / 8 (1997): 47-53
- Mare Superum / 10 & 11 (1998): 25-28
- Speaking Volumes / 13 (1999): 69-75
- In Anticipation / 17 (2000): 42-50

Janet Wilson
- Review: Jackson: Catullus for Children & Kassabova: Someone Else’s Life / 29 (2004): 85-86
- Alan Duff: Brown Man’s Burden / 31 (2004): 96-105

[F W] Niel Wright
- Letter / 13 (1999): 51
- Letter / 31 (2004): 118

Joe Wylie
- Stairway to the Stars (1977) / 28 (2003): inside front cover

Y [1]

Mark Young
- Two poems / 24 (2002): 33-34
- Two translations / 25 (2002): 17-18
- December 6, 2002 / 28 (2003): 101-02
- The Armory Show / 29 (2004): 30-31
- [& Martin Edmond] Q & A / 31 (2004): 24-36
- The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even / 31 (2004): 37
- Country of Origin / 33 (2006): 8
- Exile and the Middle Kingdom / 33 (2006): 46-47
- from Genji Monogatari / 38 (2009): 30-31

Z [2]

S. Nadja Zajdman
- Nana / 40 (2010): 17-18

Ahmed Zaoui
- [trans. Riemke Ensing et al.] He will come back … (5 versions) / 31 (2004): 12-21
- Letter / 31 (2004): 114

16 years [1995-2011] /
43 issues [2 double issues (10/11 & 30/31) + 1 book-length issue (12: Willy’s Gazette)] /
272 contributors

Manifestos & Reviews:

2007-12-11T16:20:00.005+13:00

A selection from some of the write-ups which have appeared to date:

[26th February 2003]:

brief
the magazine formerly known as:
A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww &c.

brief1, n. Pope's letter on matter of discipline to person or community (less formal than bull); (Law) summary of facts & law-points ofa case drawn up for counsel (hold ~ for, be retained as counsel for, argue in favour of); size of writing-paper, typewriter, etc.; instructions given to air crews etc.; watching-~, of barrister who watches case for client indirectly concerned; ~-case, small leather handbag; a ~, piece of employment for barrister, whence ~’LESS a. [ME & OF bref f. L breve dispatch, note, neut. of brevis short]
brief2, v.t. (Law) reduce (facts etc.) to a brief; Instruct (barrister) by brief, employ; Instruct (air crews etc.) with regard to raid etc. (~ing-room, where such instructions are given); Instruct thoroughly in advance. [f. prec.]
brief3, a & n. Of short duration; concise; be ~, speak shortly; in ~, in short; (pl., colloq.) shorts, women’s panties. Hence ~'LY2 adv., ~'NESS n. [ME & OF bref f. L brevis short]

… matter of discipline …

The facts: The magazine was founded in December 1995 by Alan Loney. Its format was simple: A4 sheets, copied exactly as their authors wrote them, stapled together, then distributed with bio notes and a cover.

… less formal than bull …

John Geraets took over as editor at the beginning of 1999. This initiated an immediate shift in names and styles. His first issue (12) was a re-issue of Leigh Davis’ 1983 book Willy’s Gazette. He devoted special numbers to Loney (17) and Aesthetics (20-21), and greatly increased the range and number of contributors.

… Of short duration; concise …

Jack Ross succeeded Geraets as editor in 2002. To date he's put out four issues (including #28: Smithymania, a special Kendrick Smithyman number), and an index of the first seven years of the magazine’s contents. There’s been some controversy (conducted both inside and outside brief correspondence columns) over his attempts to open up our pages to new contributors, but hopefully this is now dying down. Our latest project is an issue (#28: Spring 2003) devoted to the late Alan Brunton, poet, performer, playwright, and all-round cultural phenomenon.

As he sees it, brief’s mission is to provide an alternative to the somewhat monochrome fare of the other major New Zealand literary magazines. He prefers to print work which he suspects could not find a home in Landfall, Sport, JAAM, Takahe or any of the others. Not that I mean to disparage those magazines – I simply feel that there is a significant constituency of experimental and technically adventurous writers who don’t find full expression in them.

We specialise in page-works, articles/poems/stories, photomontages. As we reprint work exactly as it sent, so this enables our contributors to pay close attention to the design and layout of their pages. Otherwise, the look of the magazine remains the same: A4-size, perfect-bound, with bio-notes and a card cover.

The existing contributors (Loney’s original twenty, for example) can always feel confident of a welcome, but we also want to extend an open invitation to the disenfranchised to come on in ...

[Pander 9 (October 16, 1999) 14-16]:

A Brief Description of the Whole World:
A Review Symposium of the first twelve issues of this Journal of Experimental Writing, founded by Alan Loney in December 1995,
and thereafter issued by him (in stapled, xeroxed, A4 format) until
October 1998, when the editorship passed to John Geraets.

“Our criticism is littered with overviews – the year’s poetry, the year’s fiction, a review of seven magazines in one to two thousand words, five new books from a new press, or yet another anthology to tell us who’s in charge of canon building.”
- Alan Loney, ABDOTWW #8 (1997): 3

“It is in the zone of hyper-bowl that we will have to stand.”
– Jacques Derrida, Auckland Town Hall, 18th August 1999

* * *

Dear Jack,

You mentioned perhaps I might send some comments which you may be able to use in the retrospective review of Brief D. I did this the other night, but lost it, damn!, so v. briefly let me try again:

1. ABDOTWW looks to publish not simply material that is experimental, or material that is simply new, but material which is newly experimental.

2. Such work is intrinsically related to language, but is not necessarily “literary.”

3. The term “literary” is always retrospective. Novelty is not an interest.

4. Newly experimental is always to do with a self-questioning, although these questions are not necessarily ones that are asked. They address a reflexivity that may be strangely extended, extensive.

5. As well performing a special questioning, ABDOTWW questions its and its material’s performance.

6. Its “material” includes its contributors, subscribers and readers, and editor, as well as its physical properties.

7. ABDOTWW is not any one of these.

8. In all this there is subtlety involved, to be sure.

These tenets have nothing to do with, yet are contingent upon more mundane practicalities: all but special guest contributors must be also subscribers; material is accepted on an issue by issue basis, each issue having its own definition; the continuity may be in terms of regular contributors, or perhaps not, perhaps it may be in its restless unfolding; contributions, past issues, subscription requests and enquiries should be addressed to THE WRITERS GROUP, 11-20 POYNTON TCE, AK 1001.

– John Geraets

* * *

Dear John,

Thanks for getting back to me about the Pander review. I’ve collected some views already, and am gradually working my way through the issues (in both senses).

There’s a rather missionary tone in some of the editorials which slightly grates on me, I must admit. I don’t really see being “non-referential” as either inherently wicked or inherently virtuous, I must admit. What appeals to me most is the ludic cleverness of so much of the work I read there.

The purpose of the review – or review-symposium – is to describe and celebrate more than critique, though. There’s too much there which would need to be dealt with in isolation, and I really just want to bring our readers’ attention to the existence of this submerged continent of innovative text-work.

I take your point about not particularly wishing to expand your market. I just think it would be nice if people who would like it got to know about it.

I did this the other night, but lost it, damn!, so v. briefly let me try again:

That, of course, makes me muse on the immense mana of the lost message. What brilliance must have been there! So only this skeletal residue remains ...

The term “literary” is always retrospective. Novelty is not an interest.

No, kinda twentieth-century, really, all that stuff about innovation and “newness,” isn’t it?

Newly experimental is always to do with a self-questioning, although these questions are not necessarily ones that are asked. They address a reflexivity that may be strangely extended, extensive.

I’d add including an implicit challenge to the reader’s ontology – though I quite understand that you might see this as a heretical return to something resembling the affective fallacy …

As well performing a special questioning, ABDOTWW questions its and its material’s performance.

I like this mystic apotheosising of your magazine, and the HLAH-like initials are fun, too.

In all this there is subtlety involved, to be sure.

To be sure – but “don’t rely on subtlety / frighten them or they won’t see” (Tim Rice: Jesus Christ, Superstar)

– Jack Ross

* * *

Alan Loney’s magazine, ABDOTWW, is contributed to by members of a writers’ group. This group, and the $20.00 p.a.sub, helps to keep in print a fairly wide range of talented N.Z. poets. They are not all of Loney or Wystan Curnow’s generation. Included are such relative newcomers as Tom Beard, Paula Green, and Mark Wills. While the writing styles are diverse, there is an emphasis on experimental, or original writing. Anyone wanting to see new developments – significant developments – in N.Z. writing should buy or subscribe to it.

Before anyone accuses me of bias, I must make it clear that I’m not a member of the group. I did ask Loney if he’d look at my long poem “Chains,” but he wouldn’t. So, in urging people to look at ABD, I’m not pushing my own barrow. Nor am I of any “school” or “camp”. I don’t know if I’m a Postmodernist because I don’t know (exactly) what the term means.

Not every issue was equally good, but there has always been (for me) interesting data in each issue. Loney’s editorials were always stimulating. Rarely, by contrast, do I find anything of comparable interest in the mainstream magazines. In fact, the only other magazine I would recommend in such terms is Salt, put out in Auckland by Scott Hamilton and Hamish Dewe. (Please note that I don’t support Scott’s letters of abuse – otherwise it’s a very exciting magazine).

If you’re bored with stuffy, bourgeois-liberal-humanist crap, take a peepers at ABDOTWW and Salt.

– Richard Taylor

* * *

A Brief Description exists to encourage the radical, fringe, exploratory, innovative in N.Z. Literature. Other journals may say they do, but when it comes to the point will only take the “received radical” – that which already has some degree of critical imprimatur. The bafflingly new, that which in no way conforms to the existing critical templates, has nowhere to go. One can try sending one’s work overseas but (speaking for myself) much of my work is so entirely N.Z. in content, depending so heavily on our history and cultural ironies, and so seemingly eccentric, that such moves have been only occasionally successful.

It is probably correct to say that none of our publishing firms are dedicated to the advance of N.Z. poetry. Their customary reply: “It’s good but it will not sell,” has the effect of keeping our poetry in a tame or domesticated state, and existing for the sake of the institution. At present, it is only A Brief Description that lets in new vigour from the wild. Many poets frequently published in the journal rarely appear elsewhere – writers such as Peter Crisp from Napier and Michael Radich, a New Zealander who lives in Japan. Others, such as Joanna Paul, Murray Edmond, Wystan Curnow, Alan Brunton, Tony Green, present work that might hardly be acceptable elsewhere. Such an openness is a great gift to a writer who has met with continual frustration from other publishers, and who is about to lose confidence.

The journal is now edited by John Geraets, and is supported by the Writers’ Group. Its list of subscribers is not large, but one would like to think its influence is profound.

– Leicester Kyle

* * *

Leigh Davis. Willy’s Gazette. Auckland: A Brief Description of the Whole World 12 (1999).

To appear in a different time and a different place is more than just to reappear: it is to happen again, fresh and self-brightening.

So John Geraets, taking over from Alan Loney, frames this dual reissue/issue 12 of ABDOTWW – which prompts the question: do we need it? Unfortunately, we do.

Unfortunately, because we should have paid more attention the first time round. Willy’s Gazette is just as luminous now, self-brightening, as it was when it first appeared in 1983. The fact that this book remains practically unknown attests to how much writing, of even the most mildly experimental nature, becomes marginalised in NZ literary culture. The possible charge that this is due to wilful obfuscation fails in light of the fact that the Gazette, and ABDOTWW in general, works towards an understanding of community. That this community seems small, hermetic, is the result of a general ignorance among readers of, and commentators on, NZ poetry. Community in writing does not depend upon lists of the author’s drinking buddies, nor upon generalised sermons on the nature of nationhood: it rests in allowing readers to co-operate within the space of the text.

Willy’s Gazette lays itself open, straddles the illusory divide between the traditional and the avant-garde. It is a series of sonnets, but only in that each poem has 14 lines. The Gazette is provisional, a tentative assaying of various fields: local, international, literary, artistic, formal, political. This sheer variety enables the Gazette to interrogate the local without indulging in a protectionist poetics, without defaulting to the ubiquitous paysage moralisé. The book is “implosive, paratactical,” it registers, gestures:

We editors and cartographers face that fact
daily maps age post-modern printing isn’t
miraculous predictive of political outcomes
borders stay where history last placed them

The Gazette acknowledges the impossibility of containment, while employing the infinity of gesture: closure, that raptorial illusion, is endlessly deferred.

That deferral determines my own. I defer talking about the text. I find myself circling it, swooping to raid some fleshy piece, only to find myself compelled to return – to get the whole thing. This is, of course, impossible. Is that a scary notion? It should be. Where’s that sense of communication I’m looking for, that community? Well, it’s around here someplace – you’ve just got to accept that the thing’s not static, not linear, it’s not a command: it’s just as mutable and unstable as the world itself. Communication is communion, a sharing. There’s a place for you in this text. Go play.

the cabbage tree claps
its swords over the setting sun
turning as if to say
mouth open, exclamatory
so armature you were ready
so gestetner, old and dizzy,
& your line so charcoal grey and endless

– Hamish Dewe

* * *

“Go play,” says Hamish. But what said Alan Loney, ABDOTWW’s onlie begetter? Here are extracts from various of his editorials:

I ever hope for words clear as these, on a sign on a lamp-post I saw last year – “Our cockatiel has flown away. We miss him” … a search for clarity among the literally unimaginable welter of words we live in, would be useful.
- “On Clarity” #1 (December 1995): p.3.

We want answers. The culture wants answers, the media wants answers, any answers, where all answers are all too equally valid. The ‘unexplained’ is then reserved for the strange, the weird, the spooky, the ‘paranormal’ …
In my own work, the sentence “Nothing like it exists everywhere” still haunts me, as an enigmatic unsolvable puzzle, several years after writing it.
- “Defamiliarizing the Familiars” #3 (June 1996): pp.3-4.

While I think that all information is privileged information, it’s hard to see that it’s necessary for information that is not readily available to stay hidden. One reason for the apparent ‘obscurity’ of some writing will be that it has not been spoken for …
- “Who do I write for?” #4 (November 1996): p.6.

[from a review of Tony Green’s NO PLACE TO GO printed by Tara McLeod:] … if Green mourns the loss of some of his line-endings, or if McLeod mourns the loss of options that would have been given by different types and papers, and if I myself mourn for the loss of the opportunity signalled by the term ‘collaboration’, then are we doing any more than what we’d do by being faced, as in this book we most concretely are, with the vagaries of reading that are inevitable when the work goes out ‘into the world’, with no place to go but into the hands of those who will read it.
- “A place to go” #6 (July 1997): p.6.

… one of the most interesting things I learned from my years as a psychiatric nurse and an orderly in a geriatric wing of a general hospital, was that very many people, even most perhaps, die without ever enjoying classical music, looking at fine art, or reading great literature, yet believed absolutely that they had lived a full life … This flies in the face of one of our most cherished assumptions about the quality of life …
- “What are poets for?” #7 (September 1997): p.3.

… there is only one Tradition, and everything whatsoever is in it, like it or not. But if everything is in this Tradition, what can being ‘marginal’ mean?
…. What is, for instance, ‘postmodern poetry’? By the mainstream it tends to be taken as a kind of ‘thing’, which one can have to deal with or not as one chooses. Postmodern poetry is then seen as a kind of poetry, a sort of style, as if it’s an option on the menu that we can click on or pass by, take it or leave it. But what if postmodernity is … the name of the condition in which we [as a culture] find ourselves?”
- “The Other Tradition” #8 (December 1997): pp.3-5.

“Those who specialise in generalist overviews that mention oppositional writing in passing lack the credibility that only published close readings can provide …” (#4 (1996): 6). Point taken, Alan. This rather scrappy collection of views and re/views is the result. One could hardly hope to consider so varied, so textually adventurous and visually challenging a body of work otherwise. What’s more, “reviews do not necessarily stimulate a lot of sales, but negative reviews almost always stop sales in their tracks.” (#7 (1997): 3). Perhaps it is invidious to single out one from so many examples, but how can I refrain from finishing by quoting this page of Lesley Kaiser / John Barnett’s (#6 (1997): 9)?

Stone is
more stony
than it used
to be

– Jack Ross

Preface

2007-12-11T16:17:00.006+13:00

Let’s begin with some basic details. The Writers Group, and its quarterly magazine A Brief Description of the Whole World (now brief) were founded in December 1995 by Alan Loney. Now, fifteen years later, we’ve reached issue #39, albeit with five changes of name, and five different managing editors: Alan Loney (1995-98), John Geraets (1999-2002), Jack Ross (2002-05), Scott Hamilton (2005-07), Brett Cross (2007-9), and now Michael Arnold (2009- ).

In that time, the magazine has published 244 authors & artists in 39 issues (10/11 and 30/31 were double issues, and number 12 was a reprint of Leigh Davis's Willy's Gazette (1983/1999). The Writers Group has also published five books: Alan Loney’s Reading / Saying / Making: Selected Essays (2001), Sugu Pillay’s The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories (2002), Jack Ross's A brief Index (2003 / Supplement 1, 2005), Kendrick Smithyman’s Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian (2004) and K. M. Ross’s novel Falling through the Architect (2005).

As it has throughout this period, the magazine continues to specialise in technically adventurous literary and graphic work, by acknowledged (and newly discovered) innovators. Pageworks, critical articles, poems and fictional texts are all equally welcome.

The Writers Group has never received any official funding except for subscriptions and donations, so all but occasional guest contributors must also be subscribers. Enquiries are welcome, and can be directed to the present managing editor, Michael Arnold, at the following address:

The Writers Group
PO Box 102
Waimauku 1250
Auckland
New Zealand

Jack Ross. A brief index: A breakdown by issue & author of 7 years / 26 issues of brief, the magazine formerly known as: A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww / brief. &c., December 1995 – January 2003. ISSN 1175-9313. Auckland: The Writers Group, February 2003.
- --. Supplement 1. A breakdown by issue & author of 3 years / 7 issues of brief ... June 2003 – May 2005. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2005.

Sugu Pillay. The Chandrasekhar Limit and Other Stories. Auckland: The Writers Group, December 2002.

Alan Loney. Reading / Saying / Making: Selected Essays. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2001.