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'Since its inception in 1977 Social Alternatives has had a long-running commitment to poetry. During this time the journal has published well over two thousand poems (Synott 2018: 46)1, including work by Judith Wright, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Samuel Wagan Watson and Dorothy Porter (Morgan et al. 2007: 58). Alongside such luminaries, Social Alternatives has published hundreds of relatively unknown poets, many of whom had their first poems published in the journal. Certainly, when I began writing a quarter of a century ago it was one of the places you sent to. Many of the poets featured in the journal's early years were active in various social movements from anti-conscription and nuclear disarmament to Aboriginal land rights, women's liberation, and environmental protection (Synott 2018: 45). The poetry in Social Alternatives has often been slanted towards political and social themes but the work has usually been thematically broader (Morgan et al. 2007: 58), relating more abstractly to politics.' (Aidan Coleman Publication abstract)
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes
Fine by Matt Rader:
Signing and Styx, Central Otago, Late Summer by Gregory O'Brien
Roddy and Saul, Visited by and Evil Spirit by Chris Davidson
Glass and The Carver Chair by Martin Figura
Late Ghazal and Potential is Kind of Wink Beyond the Heavens we Can Barely See by Sheila E Murphy
Roethke and Crackabrick by Aaron Belz
The Chaste and The White Death by L. S. Klatt
We the People, We Were the Parkers and Dust by Nathan Parker
Queen of Cups by Helen Ivory
Miyana by Gopika Jadeja
Review : Law and poetry: Promises from the preamble (2021) by Christine V Lao
Contents
- Life with Headphonesi"I walk with red headphones, buffered against strict frost. A Nocturne strokes my stride", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Pomegranate, Four Waysi"The seeds snick free and freely fall", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Donkeyi"in my twenties I found you limp in a box", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Buffoons and Jongleursi"Clothed in bees, dressed as an emperor", single work poetry (p. 9)
- White Goodsi"Across, sweeping an arm, there are the homes", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Pretty Vacanti"A reluctance, almost a reluctance", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Eternityi"A young woman hands out", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Neoliberal Limerick with Hashtagsi"To think that the think tanks of fate", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Imperativesi"Be frugal with your morning moans", single work poetry (p. 12)
- River Heightsi"Five years past the age he reached", single work poetry (p. 12)
- On a Quiet Day...i"another world awaits its birth", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Mudi"For several months in 1841 the poet John Keats lived in New Plymouth. Not long after the unfortunate", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Kinesis, Kenosisi"a good coffee’s", single work poetry (p. 14)
- To The Tune Of “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground”i"More snowflakes falling now than stars I’ve seen", single work poetry (p. 14)
- The Last Carthusiani"“As bridegrooms to their marriage” they went west,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Nefertiti and the Nilei"The Goddess of Scribes I knew as a child", single work poetry (p. 16)
- The Beesi"Bees buzz with brio in abelia — I kneel near them", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Interlocutori"I awoke last night only to realize that I was already awake. I was surrounded by tiny little containers.", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Gay Ghazali"His father honks. ‘Why do they have to be so gay?’", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Fourteeni"letters, lines to a quatorzain, Flames on the continent", single work poetry (p. 18)
