Issue 22 (December 2001)

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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

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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

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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)

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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

Reading / Saying / Making: Selected essays

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