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

Issue 38 (August 2009)

[Cover image: Emma Smith, "Wolfwhistler" (2007)]

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Editor: Jen Crawford
Number 38 (August [September] 2009):

Wystan Curnow / Blue Tips / 4
Emma Phillipps / that we move from plastic / 5
Ross Brighton / Blue Light - Metallic / 7
Joseph Cahill-Lane / C a l i b u r n / 8
Mez Breeze / <---- ections-a="" inter=""> / 17
Lisa Samuels / Coop / 18
Richard Taylor / Marchenbilder / 23
Martin Edmond / Dungog - Rorschach Tests for Trees / 24
Sarah Broom / Heat / 26
Rachel O'Neill / Embarking on her other names / 27
Mark Young / from Genji Monogatari / 30
Alison Glenny / Mandoline / 32
Gareth van Sambeek / from Transgender Horse / 33
Janet Charman / The Honeymoon Bath / 38
Jack Ross / The Assassination Weapon - Anzac Day / 46
Rangi Faith / Homage To The Pufferfish / 49
joanne burns / is pointing still considered rude - whom did you expect / 50
John Geraets / Colourless leaves / 52
Richard von Sturmer / Train Notes / 53
Andrew Burke / Happy Hour / 56
Scott Hamilton / Eripene / 57
Mariana Isara / ink jet transfusion / 59
William Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton / 61
Gus Simonovic / One of Us / 70
Anna Rugis / Travelling Light / 72
Craig Cliff / Space For A Thousand Secrets / 73
Jennifer Compton / A Small Town on the Coast / 74
Douglas Barbour / Rose / 76
Cameron Hockly / Watching / 79
Tony Green / A Miscellany [2006 -2008] / 80
Murray Edmond / This One That One - Miniature / 84
Will Christie / C/rea[c]t/e / 86
Ian Finch / Revolving Wormhole - Organ of Corti / 87

Reviews:

Jack Ross on Martin Edmond's The Supply Party / 89
Ross Brighton on Ted Jenner's Writers in Residence and Other Captive Fauna, Sandy Florian's The Tree of No, and Lara Glenum's Maximum Gaga / 94
Notes on Contributors / 100

Issue 37 (April 2009): the exotic

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

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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

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

Issue 35 (September 2007): A brief world order

[Cover image: Matt Kelly]

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Editor: Brett Cross
Number 35 - A brief world order (September 2007):

Editorial Committee: Scott Hamilton, Jack Ross, Brett Cross, Claudia Westmoreland, Richard Taylor, Todd Keedwell, William Direen.

NB: The complete text of brief #35 is available here as a pdf:

Scott Hamilton / Franklin District Field Trips; Dream / 4
Olivia Macassey / The Internal Eel; The reflecting pool; Dissent / 9
Jack Ross / The Purloined Letter / 14
Will Christie / Bolt; The Old Story / 34
Michael Steven / Anthology; Brutes; Aubade / 38
Nathan MacGregor / Drawings / 41, 59
Sally McIntyre / Jeanne d’Arc; stations / 42
Jen Crawford / bad appendix / 50
Alex von Huhen / the poem / 57
Mario Melendez / Black Symphony; The Daughter of Rimbaud / 58
Olwyn Stewart/Paul Amlehn / I write these despicable lines / 60
Richard Taylor / from The Infinite Poem; Untitled / 61
Nathan MacGregor / Wolf Moon Rising / 64
Bill Direen / Written out of existence / 66
Richard von Sturmer / This World (and None Other) / 69
Michael Morrissey / Reading about Poland / 75
Brett Cross / senses scattered; through a window / 76
David Lyndon Brown / Decompression / 78
K. M. Ross / Te lka / 83
Henry Talbot / Sunshine / 88
Ted Jenner / Impressions of Africa / 91
Hamish Dewe / Sydney; remains / 92
Michael Arnold / Perspire / 95

Reviews:

William Direen / Falling Through the Architect by K. M. Ross / 102
Olivia Macassey / Free Range Poems; ed. Miriam Barr / 104
Dr Deidre Brown / The Fellowship: exhibition by Ellen Portch / 106
Will Christie / Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Olivia Macassey / 114
Michael Steven / To the Moon, In Seven Easy Steps by Scott Hamilton / 117
K.M. Ross / Song of the Brakeman by Bill Direen / 120
Scott Hamilton / To Terezin by Jack Ross / 122
Olwyn Stewart / Bill Direen / Marked Men by David Lyndon Brown / 126
Contributors /128

Issue 34 (February 2007): war

[Cover images Ellen Portch]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Number 34 - war (February 2007):

Editor Emeritus: C. K. Stead
Editorial Committee: Scott Hamilton, Jack Ross, Brett Cross, Claudia Westmoreland, Richard Taylor, Sanjay Wells.

[brief #34 is dedicated to Leicester Kyle.]

NB: The first 30 pages of brief #34 are available here as a pdf:

Anonymous / Leaflet distributed at Whenuapai Air Base in February 2003 / 4
Jack Ross / For Leicester Hugo Kyle / 6
Scott Hamilton / More than Pain: Leicester Kyle 1937-2006 / 12
Richard Taylor / Leicester Kyle (Friend, poet, and scientist) / 19
Pete Lusk / Leicester on the Coast / 25
Leicester Kyle / Three Poems / 27
Vincent O’Sullivan / Homecoming / 30
Don Franks / Response to Vincent O’Sullivan / 31
Stephen Oliver / O Say Can You Hear? / 32
Charles Bernstein / It’s 8:23 in New York / 34
Ron Silliman / What is to be Done / 40
Barrett Watten / What is to be criticized / 46
Barrett Watten / War = Language / 53
Olivia Macassey / Two Poems / 55
Brenda-Ann Burke / Participant Observer / 59
Brett Cross / 20th century/heist / 60
Alan Marshall / Where did all those years go? / 61
Kathryn Dudding / The Return / 62
Richard von Sturmer / Old Ezra / 70
Kendrick Smithyman / Three War Poems / 76
Bill Direen / Misery / 83
Scott Hamilton / Private Gurney / 84
Greville Texidor and Evelyn M Hulse / San Toni / 85
Bill Direen / Rights of the Unknown Writer / 110
Sugu Pillay / 9/11 and Me / 113
K. M. Ross / The Art of. .. / 116
Michael Arnold / /cities.33 / 120
Stacey Arnold / Divya / 155
Richard Taylor / The Policeman Still Has Two / 156
Hamish Dewe / [untitled notes] / 159
Martyn Sanderson / Transport / 162
Jen Crawford / Primary School, Port Kembla / 163
Henry Talbot / Native / 164
Marion Jones / Chest, Fence / 165
Ted Jenner / Pieces / 166
Scott Hamilton / Bill’s Telescope / 173
Scott Hamilton / From First to Fourth Gear / 178
Scott Hamilton / Rescuing the Typewriter / 182
Notes on Contributors / 186