Issue 23 (March 2002)

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 23 (March 2002):

Simon Ingram / pageworks
John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3
Richard von Sturmer / Working with Nagarjuna / 4-10
Ted Jenner / Aisthesis / 11-13
Tony Green / accumulations, news &tc / 14-17
Peter Crisp / Lights of a Day / 19-24
Simon Field / A star chart... / 25
Michael Radich / what the snow said / 26-27
Michael Arnold / from Cashlin / 28-35
Jack Ross / Tahiti in 1978 / 36-50
Will Joy Christie / Skinship / 51
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Never tell the trouble / 52-53
Alan Loney / a propos(ition / 54-56
Simon Field / five from Gordon Belgrave / 57-61
Judi Stout / Intent / 62-63
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / When ideas fail... / 64
Anna Jackson / Kindness to horses / 65-66
Ian Harnett / Strata Jumping in the Silky Vade Mecum / 67-71
Hamish Dewe / 4 signed works / 72-75
Michele Leggott / Let there be couscous (part 2) / 76-93
Alan Brunton / Intrigue / 94-98
Contributor Notes / 99-100

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

Issue 18 (December 2000)

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 18 (December 2000):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 5-7
Graham Lindsay / four poems / 8-11
Leicester Kyle / A Voyge to New Zealand / 12-21
Simon Field / six poems / 22-27
Jack Ross / In the Cave of Henry James / 28-35
Anna Jackson / Correspondence / 36-39
Richard von Sturmer / The Desert / 40-49
Sugu Pillay / two poems / 50-51
Michael Onslow-Osborne / #9 Imperatives / 52-54
michael radich / sayonara, say your not a / 55-58
John Geraets / Circumstantial Set / 59-61
Janet Hunt / Lace / 62-63
Tony Green / three pieces / 64-67
Wystan Curnow / From Lives of the Artist / 68-73
Alan Brunton / Selected Alchemical Letters / 74-78
Michael Onslow-Osborne / Pre-Millennial Tinnitus: Noise-bytes 1999-2000 / 79-90
Fiona Pardington / I like, I don’t like / 91-92
Scott Hamilton / from Write / 93-95
Peter Crisp / Four Purification Poems / 96-99
Contributor Notes / 100

Issue 17 (September 2000): Loney

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 17 (September 2000):

Janet Hunt / Alan Loney: Printer/Poet: Considerations /3-10
Alan Loney talking to Graham Lindsay... i / 11-17
Lydia Wevers / & Reading Alan Loney / 18-24
Tony Green / poem / 25
Peter Crisp / The Poetry of Alan Loney / 26-30
Alan Loney talking to Graham Lindsay… ii / 31-37
Douglas Barbour / A Canadian Meeting Alan Loney / 38-40
Ted Jenner / WOMAN. CHILD. WATER. FULL MOON / 41
Elizabeth Wilson / In Anticipation / 42-50
Noel Waite / Alan Loney’s shifting texts / 51-60
Alan Loney / endless beginnings / 61-68
Michael Harlow / poem / 69
Jack Ross / An Inside Narrative: Recent Works by Alan Loney / 70-79
Alan Loney talking to Graham Lindsay... iii / 80-85
Anna Jackson / Sidetracks / 86-93
Book Notes / 94
Contributor Notes / 95-96

Issue 16 (June 2000)

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 16 (June 2000):

John Geraets / Sidelines /3
Michael Harlow / The Tower of Babel / 4-11
Tony Green / e-mail / 12
michael radich / four pages / 13-16
Dinah Hawken / Where We Say We Are / 17-22
Hamish Dewe / 3x4 / 23
Richard von Sturmer / Seclusion / 24-30
Tony Green / e-mail / 31
Janet Hunt / Template for Persistence... / 32-33
Graham Lindsay / big feet: the ballad of fanny gracE / 34-39
Michael Onslow-Osborne / two poems / 40-41
Simon Ingram / design / 42-43
Peter Crisp / five poems / 44-49
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / seeing is when you forget … / 50-51
Richard von Sturmer / Across the Tasman / 52-53
Alan Brunton / Country Music / 54-59
Sugu Pillay / two poems / 60-61
Jack Ross / Dieting / 62-69
Scott Hamilton / Two Letters / 70-71
John Geraets / AA Conversation / 72-73
Scott Hamilton / Six Homages on Six Pink Slips! / 74-79
Tony Green / e-mail / 80
Fiona Pardington / Job Description / 82-83
Leicester Kyle / Mr. Buller To... / 84
Contributor Notes / 85

Issue 15 (March 2000)

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 15 (March 2000):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 5-6
Tony Green / Five Poems / 7-10
Sugu Pillay / Lovers Discourse / 11-15
Judi Stout / The Muscles / 16-17
Alan Loney /from Fragmenta nova / 18-26
Paula Green /Afternoon Tea with Gertrude Stein / 27-29
Richard von Sturmer / Winter at Chapin Mill / 30-36
Alan Loney / A BRIEFE DISCRIPTION of the whole WORLD … / 37
Alan Brunton / In Answer to the Question / 38-42
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / INCREASE the PEACE / 43
Ted Jenner / A Concise Natural History of Southern Malawi / 44-50
Graham Lindsay / Four Poems / 51-54
michael radich / Read the paper / 55
Jack Ross / Jack’s Metamorphoses / 57-62
Ian Harnett / The Point of a Pin (iii) / 63-78
John O’Connor / Two Poems / 79-80
Fiona Pardington / Four Poems / 81-84
Contributor Notes / 85
Leicester Kyle / Errata / 86

Issue 14 (December 1999)

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 14 (December 1999):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3-6
Alan Brunton / Being here (Last) / 7-11
Janet Hunt / Williamson Avenue, 1999 / 12-13
Peter Crisp / Five Poems / 14-17
Judi Stout / The Muscles / 18-22
Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul / Between meaning and nonsense / 23-33
Jack Ross / The Great Hunger / 34-37
Graham Lindsay / making lovE / 38-41
Sugu Pillay / The Lungs Of The Globe / 42-56
Leicester Kyle / On The Principle Of New Zealand Weather / 57-62
Ian Harnett / The Point of a Pin (ii) / 63-76
Tony Green / New Space-Vehicles... / 77-80
Fiona Pardington / Five Pieces / 81-85
Lesley Kaiser & John Bamett / These days... / 86-87
Leigh Davis / The Bicycle / 88-99
Hamish Dewe / Four Poems / 101-104
michael radich / the ruins of anchor what / 105-108
Book Notes / 109
Contributor Notes / 110

Issue 13 (September 1999)

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Editor: John Geraets
Number 13 (September 1999):

John Geraets / Editorial Note / 3-4
Alan Loney / from Fragmenta Nova / 5-13
michael radich / two views / 14-19
Ian Harnett / The Point of a Pin (i) / 20-31
Wystan Curnow / 32-35
Leicester Kyle / Marlowe overwritten / 36-39
Sugu Pillay / The Word Pitcher / 40-49
Tom Beard / Shuttle 1 / 50
F W N Wright / Letter / 51
Leigh Davis / Pitch / 52-53
Hamish Dewe / from ‘Manifesto [1.]’ / 54
Peter Crisp / poems / 55-58
Graham Lindsay / Dance of the apple pickers / 59-67
Elizabeth Wilson / Speaking Volumes / 69-75
michael radich / What is the reference / 76
Tony Green / poems / 77-81
John Geraets / Coloins: / 82-84
Alan Brunton / Being here (5) / 85-90
Book Notes / 91-92
Contributor Notes / 93

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