Issue 46 (November 2012): The Survival Issue

[Front cover image: Grant Banbury, “Untitled photo-postcard:
vacant lot, Colombo Street, Sydenham, Christchurch" (c. June 2011)]

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Editor: Bronwyn Lloyd
Number 46 - Survival (November 2012):

Bronwyn Lloyd / Editorial / 3
Michele Leggott / a brief history of time / 5
Jennifer Compton / from Ungainly / 8
Richard von Sturmer / from the Notebooks of Hector Velasco / 11
Ted Jenner / Lonely Hearts / 17
Bernadette Hall / How they ran into each other again at the Old Girls' Reunion / 21
Richard Taylor / Ongoing Story I-III / 24
Anne Ross / Three fragments / 27
Libby Brickell / Invisibility / 34
Alison Glenny / The Red Flower / 35
Naomi Richards / Ocean Songs / 38
Kelly Malone / crafting tension between lyric and narrative / line of the signs / 44
Doc Drumheller / The Republic of Oma Rapeti / 47
Isabel Michell / Go Home Stay Home / 48
Rachel O'Neill / Finder of the Furthest Galaxy / 61
Michael Morrissey / Landing on the Moon / 62
Stu Bagby / Day 15 / 69
Bernadette Hall / Door / 76
Leicester Kyle / Diary of a Country Cop / 78
Vaughan Rapatahana / he whatinga / 84
Jack Ross / Interpreting Paul Celan / 85
Barry Moffatt / transparencies III / 102
Kate Davis / Aimee / 106
Iain Britton / the list / 114
Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway / Arrival or Departure / 118
Martin Edmond / from Eternities / 119
L. E. Scott / Broomstick / Realisation / 131
K. M. Ross / The Last Great Road Race / 133
Vaughan Rapatahana / jacky marmon / 140
Scott Hamilton / Review of Fallen Empire, a collaboration between Jack Ross and MOTH / 142
Isabel Michell / Review of Bronwyn Lloyd's The Second Location / 149
Notes on Contributors / 151

[Rear cover image: Grant Banbury, “photo-postcard"]

Issue 44/45 (May 2012): Oceania

[Front cover image: Scott Hamilton]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Numbers 44 & 45 - Oceania (April 2012 [May 2012]):

Cover Photo: Scott Hamilton / Cover Design: Brett Cross
Scott Hamilton / Editor’s Note - Never Mind the Frangipani / 2
Futa Helu / Letter to the New Zealand Herald / 5
Vaughan Rapatahana / An Interview and Three Poems / 6
Murray Edmond / The Steps Towards ‘Von Tempsky’s Dance’ / 12
Leicester Kyle / The Life / 19
’Okusitino Mahina / An Essay and Two Poems / 21
Scott Hamilton / The Island of Exiles / 26
John McCaffery & Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery / Complaint to the Human Rights Commission / 36
Sarah Bogle / My Kin is the Dirt / 41
Andrew Dean / An Interview and an Essay / 42
Michael Morrissey / Between Two Pacific Islands / 49
Kendrick Smithyman / Three Poems / 52
Jack Ross / The Great White Silence / 56
Rachel Fenton / A Poem. and a Note about the Barnsley dialect / 77
Marty Mars / Two Poems / 79
Giovanni Tiso / Six Inches to a Mile / 80
Stephanie Christie / Niue / 84
VO Blum / An Interview and an Excerpt from DownMind / 86
Hamish Dewe / ‘This fortnight the evenings ...’ / 95
Naomi Richards / Talofa Miss Brown / 96
Richard Taylor / from Eyelight / 100
Iain Britton / profile of a yellow circle / 104
Vaughan Rapatahana / Two Visits to Nauru / 106
Rogelio Guedea / Timeline (Tr. Megan Saltzman) / 115
Alex Wild / from “There is No War Here” / 120
Ted Jenner / The Arrow that Missed / 126
Denys Trussell / A Letter and a Poem / 128
Futa Helu / The Fakatangi (from the Tongan Poetry series) / 130
Mark Derby / An Interview and an Essay / 133
Lisa Samuels / Nervous Water / 149
Brett Cross / A Note and a Poem about the Kaipara / 152
Dave Bedggood & Owen Gager / from Towards a Socialist Polynesia / 156
Leicester Kyle / Bridge to the Sea / 165
Michael Amold / from Cashlin (Shape) / 166
Paul Janman / The I Ching in the Eye of ’Atenisi Realism / 169
George Griffith / from Outlaws of the Air / 184
Reviews & Notes / 186
Scott Hamilton / Boarding Paul Janman’s Tongan Ark / 187
" / Tapu, Pigs, and Power; Discussing Tongan Ark / 193
" / A Preliminary Report on the End of the World / 198
Jack Ross / Leicester Kyle’s Koroneho / 206
Dougal McNeil / In the Gap / 208
Scott Hamilton / Alex Wild, Blogging, and the Curse of Coolness / 213
Anne Amundsen / Lost: a Literary Treasure, Last Seen in Tonga / 217
Scott Hamilton / The Kids are Alright / 219
Tim Bowron / A Communication / 222
Vaughan Rapatahana / Announcing the Publication of English Language as Hydra / 223
Richard von Sturmer / Message / 226
Notes on Contributors / 227

Issue 43 (November 2011)

[Cover image: Ellen Portch, “untitled",
from the series Wall (2010)]

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Editor: Hamish Dewe
Number 43 (October 2011 [November 2011]):

Manon Revuelta / sleeve red of milken bees ... / 5
John Geraets / Poems - Stunning Debut: Willy's return / 6
Sarah Bogle / (Law school/ dichotomy / then smile) / 22
Scott Hamilton / Blackbirding - The Law of Equivalence - The Parachutist - Five Dreams - Osip - Invitation to a Stoning / 24
Richard von Sturmer / We Batten On / 38
Vaughan Rapatahana / ko mutu inaianei - no kai - Whetumatarau / 50
Stephanie Christie / Mindnight - An Argument / 55
Brett Cross / shadow / slink / 58
Lisa Samuels / from Life Sentence / 59
David Howard / Unemployment - Paperwork / 67
Iain Britton / in zambia / like elsewhere - & all that tactile stuff / 71
Ted Jenner / 'Wet traffic ghosting through the night' / 78
Giovanni Tiso / The Canto of Ulysses / 84
Bill Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton, or the Ballad of Rue Belliard (word 9692 to 10939) / 90
Jacques Coulardeau / Bill Direen: Devonport, A Diary, Esplanade / 96
Jen Crawford / Ahh - salt / 99
Notes on Contributors / 102

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 41 (December 2010)

[Cover image: Richard von Sturmer, “Straps on Railway Freight Carriages"]

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Editor: Richard von Sturmer
Number 41 (November 2010 [December 2010]):

Richard von Sturmer / Editor's Note / 2
Simon Jackson / Question Mark - Apostrophe - The boy who didn't like bananas - 100 Years of the Poetry Society / 3
Marion Jones / Degrees of Whiteness - Sasha / 6
Andrea Quinlan / 2 Poems from Sedmikrásky /8
K. M. Ross / The Headless: Coleop / 10
Michael Harlow / Take five: composition for words and music - Short talk on a Sunday afternoon with John Cage - Day­book of thought-songs - Sweeping the courtyard / 14
Michael Farrell / thrills 2 - minimalism over two pages - simone de beauvoir / 19
Vaughan Rapatahana / no surface - pestilence - at Waikanae / 26
Iain Britton / Gestures - Apparitions - Punctured Experimental / 34
Lisa Samuels / Haptic radio / 42
Manon Revuelta / Meadowable - Voice, The - Re-veal / 45
Wystan Curnow / Altaussee / 48
Richard Taylor / again) - we did the Name Thing (when she was certain) / 50
Zarah McGunnigle / This would go on / 53
Jack Ross / Celanie: 5 Versions from Paul Celan / 54
Richard von Sturmer / Six Book of Equanimity Verses / 60
John Geraets / Extrapolations / 62
Michael Morrissey / 52 Questions in the Reel Life of a Stone Washed Man / 66
William Direen / Wednesday 9 / 74
Marty Blayney / Postrenku - Dust Pans / 78
Ngahuia Harrison / A Day of Visiting - Dirt / 80
Scott Hamilton / An Annotated Guide to Mungo National Park / 82
Dale Johnson / Permanent Change / 91

Reviews:

Roger Horrocks / Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life by Leigh Davis / 94
Elmar Ludwig / Kingdom of Alt by Jack Ross / 103
Notes on Contributors / 106

Issue 40 (July 2010)

[Cover image: John Dickson & Ted Jenner, “After Hours Return"]

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Editor: Ted Jenner
Number 40 (June 2010 [July 2010]):

Ted Jenner / Editor's Note /2
Richard von Sturmer / Conversations with Clarice /4
Jack Ross / Memoirs from beyond the Grave - Badges - Sor Juana lnés de la Cruz /9
Richard Reeve / Uptake /14
Sugu Pillay / The Tree in its Setting - Lindis Pass /15
S. Nadja Zajdman / Nana / 17
Michael Morrissey / Pre-Posthumous Meditation on Keats /19
Murray Edmond / Ecstasy: A Short Film - The Animals of the Bed ­ The Gates of Paradise /20
Vaughan Rapatahana / old Tom - from father through son to son / 24
Michael Estabrook / The Rumba with Patti - goats Oklahoma and frozen 30 candles - during the snowstorm - The Continuity of Life /30
Wystan Curnow / At the Hotel /33
William Direen / Hyperbaton or The Ballad of rue Belliard [ctd] /35
Michael Farrell / jill jones eyes - dear sincerely - cocoon /42
Michael Steven / Here, the Lovers - Blackburn's Last Strut /48
Anna Rugis / She tries to explain that thing she doesn't do ­ Exploding the Myth - Shift – Humidity ­ Marmalade Pudding /51
Hamish Dewe / Head Table - Auckland Star - 2009/56
Iain Britton / The Scarecrow /59
Ross Brighton / Birds /61
K. M. Ross / The Headless: Lucy /66
S. H. Hamilton / Twenty Theses Against Space and Time /70
Richard Taylor / Reading Things /80
Tony Green / lines from SKETCHES 59–61 /87
S. H. Hamilton / On the Island /90
Michael Harlow & Kit Powell / Devotion to the Small /98
Olivia Macassey / The Death of Porthos / 117

Reviews:

Ted Jenner / Enclosures by Bill Direen /119
Ted Jenner / The Tramconductor’s Blue Cap by Michael Harlow /123
Notes on Contributors / 131

[Cover image: Ted Jenner, "There We Go"]

Issue 39 (March 2010)

[Cover image: Ellen Portch, "Green"]

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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