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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes: Graphic poetry by
The Mountains Fall Into the Sea by Bella Li
Three Keyboard Performances by Pascalle Burton
The Shape of Words by Nicci Haynes
A Spatial Reclamation of 75 Arthur Street by Cormac O'Brien Kirby
Emissaries from the Arab World, Envision: A Queer/Trans Arab Multiverse [screenshots] by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran
Assemblage Poetics by Brian Ang
The Beauty and Horror of Ekphrasis in Shelley's Medusa by Zhang Ziqi
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Editorial - 5 Scenes and a Handful of Questions,
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'Several years ago, a student in a creative writing class told me about All encounter he had had at an art gallery: he had stood for some time observing an exhibit for which he could not find a mounted label—no details on artist, title, media. or year that the piece 'came into being'. After a short search. he realised that it really was 'just an unattended pile of dust and dirt and hair alongside a resting broom. Perhaps some gallery staff member had begun the sweep unprepared for-such a significant pile of visitor detritus, and had wandered off in search of a brush and dustpan. ' (Introduction)
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Poetry Editorial : Some Notes on Distance,
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Angela Gardner is currently living on Ireland's Beara Peninsula; I write from Naarm/Melbourne. Around reviewing the submissions for this issue, Angela adventured variously (jaunting—to Clonakilty, to Wicklow Mountains—Printmaking. kayaking); I did a lot of sitting, hunched on the sofa by a window. reading while the sun rose. I was ahead by the clock but otherwise lagged. Here is Angela, fleet (between blackberry picking and lawn mowing), setting out some context for this issue...(Introduction)
- Ars Poetica (Fan Mail)i"She apologises for the crazy. The previous one- she's not", single work poetry (p. 24-25)
- Unfinished Portrait of Two Figuresi"When he stripped naked", single work poetry (p. 26-28)
- Lux Australisi"tilted venetians admitted these oblongs of light. an accident of composition:", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- 8.1i"Well I intentionally leave it unedited. If one's youth is editable. I would give up", single work poetry (p. 32-33)
- Containmenti"No. I am also [brown] because I have stories", single work poetry (p. 36-37)
- On Googling Saint Olivia Palermo [Images]i"what has she done", single work poetry (p. 38-39)
- A Conversation about Arti"What are your thoughts on art and the female body?", single work poetry (p. 40-43)
- Painterlyi"Or it went like this: her, Art's paint-over the awnings of timber", single work poetry (p. 44-46)
- Indexicalityi"In 1971, Alina Szapocznikow has twenty", single work poetry (p. 48-51)
- Earsi"You are a printmaker,", single work poetry (p. 52-54)
- On Felicien Rops' La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1878)i"Leafing through 13C manuscripts prefaces", single work poetry (p. 56-58)
- The Fordi"Witness is what you must bear,", single work poetry (p. 60-61)
- Collecting Firewood, After Mauvei"the blue of the peasant bent", single work poetry (p. 62-63)
- A Bomb Fragment from an Allied Raidi"frescoes in the Camposanto Monumentale di Pisa)", single work poetry (p. 64-65)
- Elaine Sturtevanti"she pulls down his obvious chin", single work poetry (p. 68-69)
- Evidence of Lifei"mist, a spectre", single work poetry (p. 70-71)
- Trans Moshi"My friend tells the gig photographer that Facebook has just started flagging", single work poetry (p. 72-73)
- Love Lessons (Operatic Hay Seeds)i"We learnt about opera", single work poetry (p. 74-75)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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First Nations Poetry : On, In and About Art
2022
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— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 97) -
Poetry Editorial : Some Notes on Distance
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 10-11)Angela Gardner is currently living on Ireland's Beara Peninsula; I write from Naarm/Melbourne. Around reviewing the submissions for this issue, Angela adventured variously (jaunting—to Clonakilty, to Wicklow Mountains—Printmaking. kayaking); I did a lot of sitting, hunched on the sofa by a window. reading while the sun rose. I was ahead by the clock but otherwise lagged. Here is Angela, fleet (between blackberry picking and lawn mowing), setting out some context for this issue...(Introduction)
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Editorial - 5 Scenes and a Handful of Questions
2022
single work
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— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 2-4) 'Several years ago, a student in a creative writing class told me about All encounter he had had at an art gallery: he had stood for some time observing an exhibit for which he could not find a mounted label—no details on artist, title, media. or year that the piece 'came into being'. After a short search. he realised that it really was 'just an unattended pile of dust and dirt and hair alongside a resting broom. Perhaps some gallery staff member had begun the sweep unprepared for-such a significant pile of visitor detritus, and had wandered off in search of a brush and dustpan. ' (Introduction)
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Editorial - 5 Scenes and a Handful of Questions
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 2-4) 'Several years ago, a student in a creative writing class told me about All encounter he had had at an art gallery: he had stood for some time observing an exhibit for which he could not find a mounted label—no details on artist, title, media. or year that the piece 'came into being'. After a short search. he realised that it really was 'just an unattended pile of dust and dirt and hair alongside a resting broom. Perhaps some gallery staff member had begun the sweep unprepared for-such a significant pile of visitor detritus, and had wandered off in search of a brush and dustpan. ' (Introduction) -
Poetry Editorial : Some Notes on Distance
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 10-11)Angela Gardner is currently living on Ireland's Beara Peninsula; I write from Naarm/Melbourne. Around reviewing the submissions for this issue, Angela adventured variously (jaunting—to Clonakilty, to Wicklow Mountains—Printmaking. kayaking); I did a lot of sitting, hunched on the sofa by a window. reading while the sun rose. I was ahead by the clock but otherwise lagged. Here is Angela, fleet (between blackberry picking and lawn mowing), setting out some context for this issue...(Introduction)
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First Nations Poetry : On, In and About Art
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 97)