Issue 4 (November 1996)

[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)

[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)

[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