Issue 44/45 (May 2012): Oceania

[Front cover image: Scott Hamilton]

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

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

Issue 34 (February 2007): war

[Cover images Ellen Portch]

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

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

[brief #34 is dedicated to Leicester Kyle.]

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

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

Issue 33 (March 2006): exile and home

[Cover image: Anya Whitlock]

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

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

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

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