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Alternative title:
Modern Elegy
Issue Details:
First known date:
2020...
vol.
10
no.
1
2020
of
Australian Poetry Journal
est. 2011
Australian Poetry Journal
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'In September 2019, Jacinta Le Plastrier invited me, Eunice, David and Felicity to be co-editors of this Australian Poetry Journal ‘modern elegy’ issue. At that time, I was not to know what 2020 would bring, or what it would be like to ask poets to write an elegy in 2020. The bushfires last summer should have been prevented, and Country should have been spared. But instead of giving First Nations people autonomy of their land and ability to perform their culture, science and caring for Country, the government is obsessed with continuing an extractive colonisation that will continue to kill us and other living beings we are in kinship with.' (Ellen van Neerven, Foreword 1, Introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
On the Slope of the Dead by Aiden Heung
Grid by David Ishaya Osu
e by Brian Fuata
Speech Acts: Another Lesson in Chinese Characters by Changming Yuan
To Live Is to Forgive, The Great Book Commands by Ojo Taiye
from ‘Cancer: Poems after Katerina Gogou’ by Sean Bonney
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Forgive Me My Lovei"Forgive me my bird as I am not able to embrace you",
Moones Mansoubi
(translator),
single work
poetry
(p. 6-7)
Note: In Farsi, with English translation by Moones Mansoubi Farsi handwritten by Moones Mansoubi
- Native Grassesi"Native grasses", single work poetry (p. 13-14)
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And Then There Was Nouri"the haunting of light",
single work
poetry
(p. 15-19)
Note: This pome is in five numbered parts.
- Cook 250i"In all the ways I still find fyre in this city", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Burying 堉清i"Let it be known that there was no rain", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- Sudden Landingi"The cement floor is tiled over. And the jungle", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Lost in Placei"I die in every play I write", single work poetry (p. 24-27)
- Frame Semanticsi"There were things in the surgery that proved immovable:", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- Post-heti"Onti", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- An Annotated Bibliography for the Futureless Generationi"THE FUTURE IS childless because the process of freezing eggs felt even stranger", single work poetry (p. 32-33)
- Wet Countryi"Today’s dreaming comes from the deadly", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- The Way You’d Say My Namei"Every day, since you left, I’ve waited for someone to say my name the way you did.", single work poetry (p. 36)
- How The Mentally Ill Are Treatedi"I have triggers many triggers", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
- The Buried Wishi"In the memory of Fariborz Karma who took his", single work poetry (p. 39)
- Poem on Lifei"something is happening", single work poetry (p. 42-48)
- Sister Lighti"Wind braids the grass & combs the hides", single work poetry (p. 49)
- Mirabiliai"It is its", single work poetry (p. 50-52)
- Hölderlin Ghost Poem, Tübingeni"I saw his ghost", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Opening the Urni"Your last sound, as you clutched your chest", single work poetry (p. 54-55)
- Gramsci’s Pigi"One day in the prison orison yard, you saw a pig arrested", single work poetry (p. 56-57)
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