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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 4 February 2020 of Writ Poetry Review est. 2014 Writ Poetry Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Train Lines Whistle Louder When Crispi"went out last night waited for the train realised how nervy I was when I jumped and", Indigo Eli , single work poetry
Tracks through Early Morningi"one of those cold fleshed fortresses", Ross Jackson , single work poetry
Too Many Years a Railway Daughteri"I wanted to step into the steam loco", Elanna Herbert , single work poetry
Parisi"The doors", Jennifer Kornberger , single work poetry
A Tawny Frogmouth Callsi"all night the mopoke asks", James Walton , single work poetry
O the Celestial Objectsi"brighter celestial objects", Natalie D-Napoleon , single work poetry
Magnoliai"i'm re-decorating the front room. walls are scuffed from kids play", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
The Hum of Angophorai"The low and knotted branches of the angophora", Rose Lucas , single work poetry
Days of Mourningi"Between the moon's craters", Rozanna Lilley , single work poetry

Author's note:

About the poem:

‘Days of mourning’ addresses an article published in PIX magazine on 19 March 1938. The article, ‘The Rites of Making Man’, told readers about Aboriginal initiation ceremonies, captured on film by adventurer Francis Birtles.  As a contemporary reader, I was shocked to see the secret-sacred images displayed on the pages of this  popular pictorial. PIX has been digitised and the relevant issue can be accessed here: [...] Of course, 1938 was also the year of the first Day of Mourning, a protest held by Aboriginal activists on 26 January to mark 150 years of colonisation and the expropriation of their lands. PIX remained silent on this matter. 
1932i"reading the poems of women", 'Jackson' , single work poetry
In the Novelist’s Lunchboxi"nested within the tartan cooler", Rita Tognini , single work poetry

Author's note:

About the poem:

This descriptive poem is meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The stimulus for the poem was the lunch break during a whole day workshop.  Participants and presenters, including the novelist in question, lunched together, each exhibiting what they had brought to eat from home. I was struck by precise packaging of the novelist’s lunch, and the way the super-healthy contents of the lunch were laid out – in contrast to my own sloppily made and wrapped roll of salami, peanut paste and cheese.  This led me to wonder if the features of the lunch reflected the care, order and control with which the novelist approached the task of novel writing.
Siobhan Hodge Reviews Alice Savona, Siobhan Hodge , single work review
— Review of Self Ie Alice Savona , 2020 selected work poetry ;

'There is always something exciting about witnessing a poet’s decisive use of the full field of the page. Savona’s postmodern poetics are technically brilliant and thoroughly wry, playful and incisive in their focus on breakage, division and conjoining – physically in the bodies of the poems, and metaphorically in the voices and bodies of her speakers. Self ie is a confident and exuberant collection of self-exploration and exploration of how and why we make meaning out of our lives, adding another distinctive and important voice to UWA Publishing’s poetry series.' (Introduction)
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