Issue 12 (June 1999): Willy's Gazette

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: John Geraets
Number 12 (June 1999):

John Geraets / Carousel / [2]
Leigh Davis / Willy’s Gazette (1983/99) / 3

Issue 10/11 (October 1998)

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Numbers 10 & 11 (October 1998):

Michele Leggott / snake & jewel / 3-8
Peter Crisp / The cables; the Lone poet Rides Again / 9-12
Janet Hunt / So Long / 13
Alan Brunton / Being Here (4) / 14-19
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / ANNOUNCEMENTS / 20-21
Michael Radich / pine; matins at the ok coral; oh no, not lyric! / 22-24
Elizabeth Wilson / Mare Superum / 25-28
Ibykos/Ted Jenner / 22 Love Songs / 29-34
Tony Green / Los Angeles Notes; Dead Fingers Talk; Big Night Out / 35-38
John Geraets / Dogen’s Box / 39-42
Leicester Kyle / The Comparative Atmospheric Pressure …; On Forest Culture / 43-47

Issue 9 (April 1998)

[Cover: taken from A Roman Capital Alphabet by Giambattista Palatino, mid-16th century.]

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 9 (April 1998):

Alex Calder / And then: the fortunes of a little magazine / 3-7
Wystan Curnow / Lives of the artists / 8-14
Lesley Kaiser/John Barnett / Translations from the Japanese / 15-19
Murray Edmond / Wholly Daze / 20-23
Tony Green / The Bellori File / 24-28
Tom Beard / an abstract … / 29-31
Mark Wills / from the Cleistogame / 32-35
John Geraets / Transposition is one thing to be about … / 36-39
Alan Brunton / Being Here (3) / 40-45
Graham Lindsay / Taxi / 46-48
Leicester Kyle / from Koroneho / 49-54
Contributor notes / 55

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

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

Issue 1 (December 1995)

A Brief Description of the Whole World
Editor: Alan Loney
Number 1 (December 1995):

Alan Loney / On Clarity / 3-5
Alan Brunton / An Objection to a Proposal / 6-9
Sylvie Haisman / Tendon / 10-12
Michael Radich / diptych / 13-14
Sugu Pillay / Not a Love Story / 15-18
Elizabeth Wilson / FOR WE GO AHAWKING … / 19-22
Christopher Neilson / Alchemical Introduction; Crane-Women, Fox-Men / 23-24
Tom Beard / from Urban Songs / 25
Paula Green / listing the breathless women / 26-29
Graham Lindsay / Residence in silence; After-dinner speech; Mirror / 30-33
Diana Nash / There are gardens / 34-36
Mark Wills / To – Michael Radich / 37
Tony Green / If I were a painter; Body Constructs; For St. Valentine’s Day 1995/ 38-40
Wystan Curnow / Details / 41-48
Billy Apple / 0.31 – 0.50 – 1.32 – 3.44 – 9.02 – 23.61 – 61.80 / 49
Michael Radich / Chapter 1; three footnotes to an MA thesis; shibboleth / 51-55
Charles Bernstein / “Get Real”; [Untitled]; The Emotional Truth / 56-58
John Geraets/Bruce Malcolm / Helix / 59-62
Tony Green on John Geraets / Sanage Adventure Field / 63-66
Lesley Kaiser/John Barnett / Oh Damn! / 67-68
Contributor notes / 69-70