Issue 53 (November 2015)

[cover image: Alex Wild]

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Editor: Alex Wild / Poetry Editor: Brett Cross
Number 53 (November 2015]):

Alex Wild / Birthday Editorial (Party World) – Anniversary Editorial (Straight) / 3
Erin Doyle / Epidermis / 5
John Geraets / thirty2 (own) – thirty5 / 10
Ted Jenner / Meadowbank, One Evening / 13
Mark Young / Five poems / 17
Kate Davis / Property Values / 22
Carin Smeaton / Five poems / 30
Jun Moungboon / Benzo & Bunny / 39
Murray Edmond / Four poems / 44
Isobel Cairns / To know a place or a person / 50
Nick Ascroft / Shortcuts to the Art / 52
Stephanie Christie / Ambiviolence – Cure a Casino / 53
Keith Nunes / The World as Pirated by Limousine Jones / 55
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle / Three poems / 57
Fresh and Fruity / Fresh and Fruity manifesto volume i: Fresh and Fruity is a sexy new look / 58
Richard Taylor / I Am Become Death the Destroyer of Worlds / 66
Jack Ross / Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World / 80
Olivia Macassey / Your eyes are like the stars – The Burnt Hotel / 98
Geum Hye Kim / S/he / 102
Vaughan Rapatahana / Three poems / 105
Rachel Fenton / Through That Which Is Seen: Small Scale Replica of a Scene / 109
Joel Chace / Mouth Pieces 5-9 / 115
Sugu Pillay / Pohara Beach, Golden Bay / 118
Harvey Molloy / At the Armageddon Expo – Grand Theft Aotearoa / 120
Sarah Bogle / 0 >0 / 122
Manon Revuelta / i-vi / 124
Sid Khanzode / Imperfect from the Start / 126
Richard von Sturmer / Ten Days up North / 127

REVIEWS
Richard Taylor / K. M. Ross, The Blinding Walk / 132
John Geraets / Edward Jenner, The Gold Leaves / 144

Contributor bios / 147

Issue 49 (September 2013)

[Front cover image: Richard Taylor]

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

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

REFLECTING ON BRIEF
Alex Wild / News in brief / 113

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

CONTRIBUTORS / 152

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

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

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Editor: Brett Cross
Number 48 (June 2013):

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

Issue 36 (September 2008): The NZ Music Issue

[Cover image: Sherry Hamid]

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

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

Reviews:

Ted Jenner / Papyri by Jack Ross / 111
Jack Ross/ Climbing off the Barricades: Review of Dream Boat: Selected Poems, by Tony Beyer & A Good Handful ed. Stu Bagby / 114
Scott Hamilton / Seeking 'a different reality principle': Review of The Rotten Elements by Edward Upward / 119
Contributors' Notes / 125

Brief #36 CD:

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

Issue 35 (September 2007): A brief world order

[Cover image: Matt Kelly]

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

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

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

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

Reviews:

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