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'Do not be afraid to think.
'Test form, renew form, or defy it.
'Know there is a new permission to speak, and for more voices.
'Not to censure, censor our inheritances—in which there is still the cherishable, the followable—but to question, yes, that. To make that effort, with caring, love, and as needed, fierceness.
'To write, read the self, which can also be multiple, as are our inheritances, and also within if wished for, community.
'When I first devised the idea of this New Series two years ago, it was intended to be celebratory, motivated by the current flourishing which is occurring in poetry and poetry publication in Australia. In it, another poet/critic or poetry community associate is ‘allied’ with a new or recent Australian poetry collection, be that an individual volume, or an anthology, or another platform. Some books go back a little (there is one from 2017), but most are of the past 12-24 months; the impetus was to make tribute to a splendid range of contemporary Australian poetry publishing.' (Jacinta Le Plastrier, Introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
After Ebony G Patterson’s ‘while the dew is still on the roses’ by Kei Miller
Termination Letter by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao )
Contents
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Fern Up Your Own Gullyi"Deep in the heart of the forest there’s a",
single work
poetry
(p. 9-10)
Note: Includes commentary by Veronica Sullivan
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Herons at Duski"This is the time of day when the light runs down the sky",
single work
poetry
(p. 13-14)
Note: Includes commentary by Brook Emery
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Jolti"Men's heads pull them",
single work
poetry
(p. 17-18)
Note: Includes commentary by John Kinsella
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Hotel Grand Saigon, Part VIIIi"Still running, Daphne cried out to her father, ‘Change me!’ and we",
single work
poetry
(p. 19-20)
Note: Includes commentary by Jennifer Nguyen
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The Silent Nonnai"She wanders the hillsides",
single work
poetry
(p. 21-23)
Note: Includes commentary by Morgan Yasbincek
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Factoidsi"My mother sits in a stone house and she burns.",
single work
poetry
(p. 24-26)
Note: Includes commentary by Zeina Issa
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Superpositioni"Too many blacks goin around, thinkin they own the place",
single work
poetry
(p. 27-29)
Note: Includes commentary by Alison Whittaker
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Sunsi"degraded echo",
single work
poetry
(p. 30-36)
Note: Includes commentary by D Perez-McVie
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Seep/Stir/Signifyi"everywhere blood blood on the record but always",
single work
poetry
(p. 37-38)
Note: Includes commentary by Ellen van Neerven
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FW: FW: 'IM FALLING OUT OF THE SKY PLEASE RESPOND'i"From: Carly
", single work poetry (p. 39-45) Note: Includes commentary by Lujayn Hourani -
Second Comingi"I am off the coast of an island eight hours from my",
single work
poetry
(p. 46-47)
Note: Includes commentary by Natasha Hertanto
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Forecasti"the weather is good",
single work
poetry
(p. 48-49)
Note: Includes commentary by Darlene Soberano
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbariumi"words slip off the page",
single work
poetry
(p. 50-53)
Note: Includes commentary by Kristen Lang
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Agoni"New York City, 1957",
single work
poetry
(p. 54-59)
Note: Includes commentary by Jennifer Mackenzie
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Inside of Paradisei"We are coming and going. At last you have arrived, your suede shoes",
single work
poetry
(p. 70)
Note: Includes commentary by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington
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What I Wanted to Happeni"Malcolm has been in love with his best friend Jess since highschool. But, after his",
single work
poetry
(p. 77-78)
Note: Includes commentary by Fiona Dorrell
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[Untitled]i"Nothing started the day I was born.",
single work
poetry
(p. 79-80)
Note: Includes commentary by Essa Ranapiri
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Fugal Statei"You are always beginning again—",
single work
poetry
(p. 81-83)
Note: Includes commentary by Jill Jones
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STFU, Silence Tender Flowing Undulatingi"as a child i thought one day i would be able to learn everything’s name and",
single work
poetry
(p. 84-87)
Note:
Includes commentary by Romy McCoy
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Petrichori"Sometimes I just want a bathroom",
single work
poetry
(p. 88-89)
Note: Includes commentary by Adolfo Aranjuez