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1 Bellybutton i "red shirt lints like a blood clot", Rory Green , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 10 2023; (p. 20)
1 Launch Title Affirmations i "I am almost overwhelming right from the start.", Rory Green , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
1 Lessons i "learn sleep learn breath learn yellow learn yoshi learn patience learn winding learn keyboard", Rory Green , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
1 SYSTEM_ERROR Rory Green , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue , no. 69 2022; '‘SYSTEM_ERROR’ is an interactive generative poem which explores the fracture of digital selfhood in a time of global crisis. With the aid of generative text software library Tracery, the speaker is presented as an unstable AI speaking to the reader via dialogue boxes reminiscent of operating system pop-ups, which invoke ongoing existential threats or “system errors” for humanity including pandemic disease, media propaganda, technocapitalism and the collapse of global ecological systems. The generative and interactive components of ‘SYSTEM_ERROR’ seek to complicate notions of a divide between the real and digital worlds. While the traditional action with a dialogue box is to close it, each attempt to dismiss the speaker produces more laments, questions and accusations. The subversion of expected agency over pop-ups recalls the struggle to escape reminders of real-world crises within digital media environments. Blending first and second person pronouns in the fragments also suggest a growing entanglement between the digital world of the artificial speaker and the physical world of the reader. Readers are trapped in an endless loop of existential terror – if left unattended the speaker eventually acts without prompt, deteriorating into an incomprehensible stream of text.'

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1 The Lovers Rory Green , 2022 single work
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging Online 2022;
1 The Lovers i "in a past life", Rory Green , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging Online 2022;
1 Rory Green Reviews Theory of Colours by Bella Li Rory Green , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
— Review of Theory of Colours Bella Li , 2021 selected work poetry art work
1 Rhizome Lyric i "cave", Rory Green , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , November vol. 8 no. 1 2021;
1 Creatures of the In-Between i "like sea foam / scattered over", Rory Green , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , November vol. 8 no. 1 2021;
1 1 y separately published work icon The Attentions Rory Green , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2021 27618666 2021 selected work poetry

'"Green posits a productive anti-poetic that, to continue the EP analogy, would make this chapbook electronica. Some have been composed with online tools, and a game-like logic, assembling phrases, even turning poems sideways and upside down like Tetris bricks. These are poems that have been carefully whittled and stacked, rather than merely programmed, and they speak to the limits of all-too-human signposting, as if "language succumbed to a cairn".- Keri Glastonbury' (Publication summary) 
1 Last Swim before Space Flight i "you’ll just swap one form of floating for another", Rory Green , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 80 no. 4 2021; Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 83)
1 Gengar i "automation is an act of departure", Rory Green , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Venusaur i "gorging on summer, clustered like cars, humming outside the power plant", Rory Green , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 54)
1 Futurity Blues i "how can a poem live forever", Rory Green , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Running Dog , June 2019;
1 Disentangling i "haul heart still soul, i’ll always remember this:", Rory Green , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , December no. 44 2019; (p. 70)
1 Last Meal i "caramel nova algae feed materialise hunger", Rory Green , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , December no. 44 2019; (p. 69)
1 Nebula of What Is Not yet Visible i "wifi signals constellating over the ci#", Rory Green , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , December no. 44 2019; (p. 69)
1 Golem i "sing a reverse burial", Rory Green , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 5 no. 2 2018;
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