Issue 39 (March 2010)

[Cover image: Ellen Portch, "Green"]

brief
Editor: Michael Arnold
Number 39 (December 2009 [March 2010]):

Michael Arnold / Editor's Note / 2
K. M. Ross / Thrash / 3
Janet Charman / 'look behind you' / 10
William Direen / Hyperbaton [ctd.] / 16
Vaughan Rapatahana / Aotearoa blues, baby - Encounter - Rata villa, Ngawhatu - wharenui / 24
Jack Ross / from The Puppet Oresteia / 33
Janis Freegard / Speaking of the Balloonist / 43
Jennifer Compton / Bungundah Does Things A Little Differently / 45
John Parkyn / Night of the Elephants / 47
Marion Jones / Apparition / 58
Scott Hamilton / St. Joseph's - The Suicider - Self-criticism - The Inland Sea / 59
Richard Taylor / Cold Moving Coldness - It Would Be a Mistake Not to Rise / 68
Belinda Diepenheim / Lake Rotoiti / 71
Ted Jenner / Mandolin - motuihe midden / 74
Richard von Sturmer / Yes / 76
Sarah Jane Barnett / The Picnic - Greece - Contours / 80
Stephanie Christie / Electroeneephalographia / 82
Brett Cross / Latona / 87
David Lyndon Brown / Sugartown 7 a.m. - Te Henga - Florilegium - Under the Museum - On the Jetty / 94
Andrew Burke / If the World is thought - Linfen Morning - From The Centre Out / 100
Michael Estabrook / 5 Snapshots in the Rain / 108
Lisa Samuels / Envoi - Love story - adorno - from Tender Girl / 109

Reviews:

Richard Taylor / EMO by Jack Ross / 116
Ross Brighton / Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot by Kate Durbin / 122
Jen Crawford / Built, project. by Emma Phillipps - Wood by Jeanne Bernhardt / 124
Hamish Dewe / Free Fall by Rogelio Guedea / 127
Notes on Contributors / 130

Issue 37 (April 2009): the exotic

[Cover image: Ben Ou, "One Tree Hill" (2007)]

brief
Editor: Michael Arnold
Number 37 - the exotic (April 2009):

NB: The complete text of brief #37 is available here to download or purchase:

Ted Jenner / Spinning A Soft Endless Web / 2
Mike Johnson / Commuting to Waiheke / 8
Jack Ross / In Love with the Chinese Novel / 10
Will Christie / Clotho on the Dancefloor - Wingettes / 29
K M Ross / Venusian Transit / 32
Nathan MacGregor / For Don / 39
Scott Hamilton / Shooting the Gods - To Wiremu Tamihana / 41
Hamish Dewe / Shanghai - Eleven / 48
John Geraets / Igatpuri, Dhamma Giri / 50
E Goodman & W Ao / Translations of New Chinese Poetry / 52
Uddipana Goswami / Mother Goddess Kamakhya / 54
Michael Arnold / thrall / 59
David Lyndon Brown / White Room / 64
Rogelio Guedea / from Free Fall (Tr. Peter Broad and Sandra Merill) 70
Doc Drumheller / How to Tie a Knot Around the World / 73
Janet Charman / Who do you See? / 74
Brett Cross / Jerusalem - return / 76
Michael Steven / Six Poems by Samuel Beckett / 78
William Direen / 14.2-19.2 - Sam Johnson and the Widow / 80
Richard von Sturmer / from Fabulae / 82
Richard Taylor / from Eyelight / 84
Graeme Perrin / Saltworks (extract) 9th work - Down South (i) / 88
Brenda Ann Burke / Shift ending / 89
Janis Freegard / Coleoptera / 90
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán / Honig / 91
Alex Wild Jespersen / from The Constant Losers / 92
Gabriel White / Alphaghetti - The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis / 96
Notes on Contributors / 115