Issue 8 (December 1997)

[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)

[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)

[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)

[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