Issue 48 (June 2013): The Ballad of Rue Belliard

[Cover photo: Owen Slatraigh / Cover Design: Ellen Portch]

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Editor: Brett Cross
Number 48 (June 2013):

Brett Cross / Editorial / [1]
Guillaume Direen / The Ballad of Rue Belliard / 3

Issue 42 (May 2011)

[Front cover image: Sandra Bianciardi, “Terre et ombre"]

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Editor: William Direen
Number 42 (March 2011 [May 2011]):

Sarah Bogle / 4 Poems / 3
Ted Jenner / from Genius Loci / 7
William Direen / On 1st looking into Lisa Samuels' Mama Mortality Corridos / 9
Greg Kan / 3 Poems / 13
Jennifer Compton / Against the Silences to Come / 14
Marion Jones / 4 Poems / 16
Franco Bianciardi / Couronne I - Crown I - Personne - No one / 18
Orchid Tierney / 4 Poems / 22
Janet Charman / on the sliding rack - i thought that visit would be - the anthology of women's poetry / 26
Richard von Sturmer / Crossing the Mind / 32
Vaughan Rapatahana / 4 Poems / 33
Andrea Quinlan / A History of Haarige / 38
Jack Ross / Johnsons or Shits: Mike Johnson's Travesty / 40
Nick Ascroft / The random infinite / 45
Michael Morrissey / The (My) House / 48
K. M. Ross / Ballad of the Kitchen Corner / 58
John Adams / Did you hear the snicker ... / 63
Pip Adam / Alan MacDiarmid Building / 64
Andrew Dean / Writing the South: Landfall, Baxter and Frame / 65
Paul Veart / In lieu of flowers - John Logan's Long Shadow / 70
Bill Direen / Two Paris Exhibitions / 79
Giovanni Tiso / Too Loud a Solitude: Bohumil Hrabal / 80
William Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton / 83
Mel Rands / 4 Texts / 85
Scott Hamilton / Crossing the Plains: a journey in twelve notes / 89
Jill Chan / After coming back from nowhere, / 96
Hamish Dewe / 9 Poems / 98
Mick Borrado / Turning Japanese / 103
Notes on Contributors / 109

[Rear cover image: Sherry Hamid, “Sonar Hunter"]

Issue 36 (September 2008): The NZ Music Issue

[Cover image: Sherry Hamid]

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Editors: Brett Cross & Bill Direen
Number 36 - The NZ Music Issue (September 2008):

Manifesta of (dys-)organised sound / 3
Brief CD track list / 6
Antony Milton / PseudoArcana / 7
Will Christie / Exclaimants / 16
Bill Pitt / Aranda Snow, Village, End / 19
Jen Crawford / ALBUMBLATT / 23
Scott Hamilton / Te Kakano Information Centre, Tuwhare / 24
Owen Bullock / Song for X / 28
Michael Steven / Silver Paint, Custody / 29
Jack Ross / Extract from EMO / 31
Ted Jenner / PROPERTIUS 2.11 / 41
Phoebe Smith / Duckpond / 42
Olivia Macassey / Persephone / 44
Richard Taylor / Eyelight / 46
William Direen / An Interview with a Dunedin Artist / 65
Richard von Sturmer / Plague Days, Bus Notes / 66
Iain Britton / Hiroshima and Freely do I Sing / 81
K. M. Ross / The Clay Monster / 83
Harvey Molloy / Il est Minuit / 87
George Henderson / My Spunky Little Friend, or, the Suburban Sub-Umbra, The Nerve, The old songbook, The Last Original Song / 88
David Lyndon Brown / Cavafy's Shoes, Lost Fragments from the Thief's Journal / 96
Bill Direen / Twelve Songs from a Berlin Experience / 101

Reviews:

Ted Jenner / Papyri by Jack Ross / 111
Jack Ross/ Climbing off the Barricades: Review of Dream Boat: Selected Poems, by Tony Beyer & A Good Handful ed. Stu Bagby / 114
Scott Hamilton / Seeking 'a different reality principle': Review of The Rotten Elements by Edward Upward / 119
Contributors' Notes / 125

Brief #36 CD:

1. Antony Milton - A Brief Tenure
2. Bill D & Thom G'Shrey - Birds & Telephones
3. Chris Matthews - O My Soul
4. Scott Hamilton & Bill D & S. Porter
5. Mary Heney (+SEP) - Shade
6. Greg Cairns - Actually I Have to Take that Picture Down (NB Common Attribution)
7. J. Ross + P. Fischlinger - The Cat
8. Will Christie - Animals
9. Jacques ReBrellion - Madeleine
10. Aural Disclosures - Split Stick
11. Frances Direen - Untitled
12. Gjoko Mohabihr - Alas Glas
13. S. Porter & Bill D - Sunday Mix
14. Mercator's Map - Kieran Monaghan
15. Cookie Brooklyn - Untitled
16. Sponge - Moon in the Moog
17. Miles Mina - Mashin'
18. Geoff Harrington - Untitled
19. Padmanabha Fischlinger - Untitled
20. D. L. Brown - from Marked Men
21. Marineville - Here I am
22. Bill Pitt - Native Poet
23. R. Taylor - The Things Smiling
24. Bobs for Jobs - Vaut Rien
25. Magnetic Pain - Sold in China
26. Dora Dandolo - play
27. S. Porter - Word In Your Ear

Books:

1. Bill Direen. The Ballad of Rue Belliard. Introduction by Brett Cross. brief 48 (June 2013). ISSN 1175-9313 / Auckland: The Writers Group, 2013.






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2. K. M. Ross. Falling Through the Architect. ISBN 0-476-01578-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, September 2005.






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3. Kendrick Smithyman. Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian. Edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00382-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, October 2004.






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4. Jack Ross. A brief index: A breakdown by issue & author of 7 years / 26 issues of brief, the magazine formerly known as: A Brief Description of the Whole World / ABDOTWW / description / ABdotWW / Ab.ww / brief. &c., December 1995 – January 2003. ISSN 1175-9313. Auckland: The Writers Group, February 2003.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   • --. Supplement 1. A breakdown by issue & author of 3 years / 7 issues of brief ... June 2003 – May 2005. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2005.




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5. Sugu Pillay. The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories. Auckland: The Writers Group, December 2002.






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6. Alan Loney. Reading / Saying / Making: Selected Essays. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2001.






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7. Leigh Davis. Willy's Gazette. 1984. Introduction by John Geraets. A Brief Description of the Whole World 12 (June 1999). ISSN 1175-9313 / Auckland: Jack Books, 1999.