[Cover image: Michael Dean]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 26 - Smithymania (January 2003):

Jack Ross / Editorial / 3-4
Jack Ross / Kendrick Smithyman: A Chronology / 5-8
Jack Ross / Jack’s Hole / 9
Kendrick Smithyman / The Hole that Jack Dug / 10
Peter Simpson/ The Smithyman Papers: A Preliminary Description / 11-18
Kendrick Smithyman / Uncollected Northland Poems / 19-49
Michael Dean / Northern Portfolio / 21, 24, 30, 35, 40, 44, 48, 50
Scott Hamilton / Reading Kendrick Smithyman / 51-55
Jack Ross / The Firpo Essay / 56
Kendrick Smithyman / Beginnings, Golden Weathers, and Firpo / 57-74
Anna Jackson / Departmental Cats / 75
Heather McCann / Tale Telling and the Construction of Identity / 76-81
Grant Duncan / Hot God Speaks / 82
Mark Pirie / Kendrick Smithyman and Louis Johnson / 83-85
Bernard Gadd / Digging towards you / 86
Judith Binney / Conversations with Kendrick / 87-91
Jack Ross / Occasional Verses / 92
Kendrick Smithyman / Occasional Verses / 93
Theresia Marshall / Kendrick Smithyman / 94-100
Richard Taylor / Letter; from Chains (2) / 101-02
Margaret Edgcumbe (& Jack Ross) / Life with Kendrick / 103-09
Alexandra Smithyman / Kendrick Smithyman / 110-11
Michael Radich / Open letter to Jack Ross / 112-13
Ted Jenner / Letter / 114
Jack Ross / Review: Smithyman, Imperial Vistas Family Fictions / 115-116
Contributor Notes / 117-18

[Cover : “Vet Cemetary,” by Matt Kelly]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 27 - season of the remakes (June 2003):

May Iremonger / Endpapers
Jack Ross / Editorial / 3-4
Michael Arnold / Two Poems / 5-6
Janet Charman / televisioner / 7-19
Will Joy Christie / Poetry from Black Lagoon / 20-21
Peter Crisp / About Time / 22-27
Hamish Dewe / Three Poems / 28-29
Doc Drumheller / N + 7 / 30-31
Martin Edmond / from Terminus Motel / 32-36
Tony Green / Accumulations, Walks & Broken Chain / 37-40
Scott Hamilton / To the Moon: in Seven Easy Steps / 41
Ian Harnett / Spam Spider Hack / 42-45
Ted Jenner / The Gold Leaves / 46-53
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Shrewd Move / 54
Leicester Kyle / On Birchfield Fen / 55-56
Harvey McQueen / A Nativity Week Leave Taking / 57-60
Theresia Liemlienio Marshall / yarn-spinning / 61-62
John O’Connor / The Orchid; Goblet / 63
Sugu Pillay / 1st January 2003 / 64
Mark Pirie / Two Poems – An Impression of the Sea / 65-70
Michael Radich / Prosaic Times; so-so / 71-73
Jack Ross / Anamorphoses / 74-76
K. M. Ross / Rambo; Dumped / 77-82
Kendrick Smithyman / Imitations of Neruda / 83-86
Richard Taylor / The enclosed “work” / 87-90
Richard von Sturmer / Sentient Dreams / 91-93
Lorraine West / The Yellow Room / 94-96
Peter Crisp / Letter / 97
Jack Ross / Review: Leicester Kyle, Five Anzac Liturgies / 98
Michael Shield / Review: Sugu Pillay, The Chandrasekhar Limit / 99-100
Olivia Macassey / Review: Jack Ross, Chantal’s Book / 101-102
Contributor Notes / 103-104

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 28 – Alan Brunton (October 2003):

Joe Wylie / Stairway to the Stars (1977) / inside front cover
Ian Prior / The Last Days of Mankind (1979) / inside back cover
Jack Ross / Editorial: In the Spirit of Crazy Horse / 3-4
Richard Killeen / Excursion poster / 5
Sally Rodwell / Excursion Production images / 6, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 25
Alan Brunton / The Excursion / 7-24
Michele Leggott / ‘An Egyptian day for the mandarin’: The Excursion 1982/2001 / 26
Murray Edmond / The Excursion, New York 1982 / 27-28
Alan Brunton / Their Diet Consists of Carrion / 29-33
Richard Killeen / New Hope poster / 34
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Know So / 35-39 [+ 2]
Martin Edmond, Michele Leggott & Sally Rodwell / Bumper Books checklist / 40-41
Michael O’Leary & Alan Brunton / Answers to the Small Press Questionnaire / 42-43
Chris Bourke / The Commissioner for Enlightenment: AB talks to CB / 44-57
Alan Brunton / Contributions to Raucous 65 & 66 / 58-60
Martin Edmond / Lighting out for the Territory / 61-76
Barry Linton / Red Mole posters / 77 & 82
Peter Simpson / Fq: Roadman’s last Quest / 78-83
Scott Hamilton & Claudia Westmoreland / Alan Brunton and the Counterculture /84-89
Richard Taylor / On Moonshine / 90-92
Mark Pirie / Alan Brunton as Publisher; The Day A.B. died; Flâneur / 93-96
Stephen Oliver / One Night at the Duke, c.1969 / 97-98
Steve Dean / “4ab”; / 99
Ron Riddell / In El Teatro Exfanfarria / 100
Mark Young / December 6, 2002 / 101-02
Michele Leggott / I dreamed your book was written and the great So praised it / 103-04
Richard von Sturmer / Great Barrier Notes; Barrier Crossings / 105-15
Jack Ross / Review: F**k you, Faerie Queene – Alan Brunton’s Fq / 116-22
Contributor Notes / 123-24

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 29 - more fun than you've ever seen (March 2004):

John Macnamara / portrait of the artist threatened by his breakfast / front cover
John Macnamara / The Marquis de Blok-ma exhibits at the Salon Merde / inside front cover
John Macnamara / Adam and Eve hiding from the Angel / inside back cover
Jack Ross/ Editorial: The Secrets behind my Smile … / 3-4
May Iremonger / Whaha mana hinanga / 5
Michele Leggott / Cairo Vessel / 6-12
Alan Brunton / Symbols of the Unconquered; In Cali / 13-15
Janet Charman / fish and chips / 16-18
Olivia Macassey / love in the age of mechanical reproduction: 1 / 19-20
Will Joy Christie / Arrest station; Negauche / 21-22
Lorraine West / The Inorganic Collection / 23
Kathryn Dudding / from H. H. tries to find for each thing its real place / 24-25
Mark Pirie / Sonnets to Spam; After Bataille / 26-27
Raewyn Alexander / some man’s angels; i’m not the kind of woman / 28-29
Mark Young / The Armory Show / 30-31
Paul Hardacre / the shower-curtain you / 32
Martin Edmond / from Luca Antara / 33-41
Janice M. Bostok / The Edwin Fox / 42
Jan Kemp / The past present/s / 43-44
Bernard Gadd / Sketch / 45
Doc Drumheller / Adoxographi / 46
David Edwards / from Overgrowth / 47-50
Brentley Frazer / The Assumption … / 51
David Howard / Overburden / 52
K. M. Ross / Sun’s Lid / 53-56
Leicester Kyle / Spawning Galaxis / 57
Owen Bullock / 22 / 58-59
Richard Taylor / re: brief submissions etc / 60-61
Jack Ross / Postcards / 62-65
Scott Hamilton / Five Poems / 66-67
Michael Arnold / What Poets Should Know About Chinese / 68-69
Hamish Dewe /Bad Faith / 70
Richard von Sturmer / Fits and Starts / 71-78
Mary Cresswell / Figure 3a / 79
May Iremonger / all hot air / 80
Jack Ross / Reviews: Paul Hardacre; Howard & Pardington; Anne Kennedy; Graham Lindsay; O’Connor & Mould; Alistair Paterson; Mark Pirie; John Pule / 81-84
Janet Wilson / Review: Jackson: Catullus for Children & Kassabova: Someone Else’s Life / 85-86
Michael Shield / Review: Mason: Four Short Stories & Duggan: A Voice for the Minotaur / 87-88
Scott Hamilton / Review: Tom Raworth: Collected Poems / 89-92
Theresia Liemlienio Marshall / Review: Paul Sharrad, Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature / 93-100
Contributor Notes / 101-102

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 30 – Kunst (October 2004):

Jack Ross / Editorial: WARUM die KUNST? / 3-4
Olivia Macassey / Chinchillas … / 4, 8, 12, 27, 35, 41, 64, 81, 97
Matty K / Batfish / 5
Tania Brady / Here Sleeps the Appetite / 6
Iain Britton / Touched by a Celestial Digit / 7-8
Jill Chan / Documenting Weakness / 9
Will Joy Christie / Logo[cent] / 10-11
Emily Dobson / Photography night class / 13-14
Doc Drumheller / Two palindromes from: 10 x (10 + -10) = 0 / 15
Grant Duncan / Passing Away / 17-20
Martin Edmond / from Luca Antara / 21-26
Jan Fitzgerald / Te Puna / 27
John Geraets / Modals; Extensives / 28-33
Scott Hamilton / My Back Pages / 34
David Hornblow / post modern girl / 35
David Howard & Kim Pieters / The Harrier Suite / 36-41
Jan Kemp / The Cook, the ‘Consul’ & the Crazyman / 42-61
Gyorgy Kostritsky / from 100 Days / 62-63
Mike Love / At the gates of conscious; construction zone / 65-66
David Loving-Molloy / Three recent poems / 67
Olivia Macassey / You Are My Sunshine / 68-69
Theresia Liemlienio Marshall / harbour-bridging / 70
Gregory O’Brien / Guide to Provençal Usage / 71-77
Stephen Oliver / Containing a broken column; Industrial tableau / 78-79
Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway / Roman Numerals / 80-81
Sugu Pillay / Tradition & the Poet II / 82-87
Jack Ross / Days Under Water / 88-91
K. M. Ross / Tripping / 92-95
Anna Rugis / Four Poems / 96-97
Richard Taylor / from Hospital / 98-108
Jack Ross / Reviews: Murray Edmond & Joanna Forsberg; Harvey McQueen;
Basim Furat; Guyon Neutze & Jürgen Waibel; Mark Pirie; Niel Wright / 109-11
Brett Cross / Owen Bullock; Moshé Liba; Stephen Oliver/ 112-13
Brett Cross / Notice: William Direen, Jules / 114
Jack Ross / William Direen: Jules / 115
Michele Leggott & Sally Rodwell / Notice: Alan Brunton, Grooves of Glory / 116
Siobhan Harvey / Paula Green: Crosswinds & Sonja Yelich: Clung / 117-18
Contributor Notes / 119-20

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 31 – Kultur (October 2004):

Editorial: brief goes political … / 3 & 5-6
Matthew Kelly / Collin the Animal / 4
Riemke Ensing / snips / 7-11
Ahmed Zaoui (trans. Riemke Ensing et al.) / He will come back … (5 versions) / 12-21
Lesley Kaiser & John Barnett / Walking the crooked line / 22-23
Mark Young & Martin Edmond / Q & A / 24-36
Mark Young / The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even / 37
Ted Jenner / A Miller’s Chaff: Malawi 2002-2004 / 38-44
Scott Hamilton / The Man in the Panama Hat/ 45-49
Hamish Dewe / Two Poems / 50
Scott Hamilton & Hamish Dewe / Opening the Green Door/ 51-57
Ricci van Elburg / Lucebert / 58-71
Mark Pirie / More Sonnets to Spam / 72-75
Jack Ross / Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown / 76-79
K. M. Ross / Out and Out / 80-82
Leicester Kyle / Death of a Landscape / 83-92
Harvey McQueen / Reading Howe’s The Quest for Origin … / 93-94
Doc Drumheller / Confessions of a Post-humous author / 95
Janet Wilson / Alan Duff: Brown Man’s Burden / 96-105
Richard von Sturmer / While You’re Away / 106-109
Basim Furat / 1 March 1967 / 110-113
Ahmed Zaoui / Letter / 114
Doc Drumheller/ Letter / 115
John Macnamara / Letter / 116-17
Niel Wright / Letter / 118
Contributor Notes / 119-20

[Cover design: James Fryer]

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Editor: Jack Ross
Number 32 – Joanna Margaret Paul (May 2005):

Joanna Margaret Paul / “Beta Street” (1981) / front cover
Joanna Margaret Paul / “Inventories;” “Inventories (bedroom);” “Inventories VI (living)” (1977) / inside back cover
Jack Ross / Editorial: i.m. Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003) / 3-4
Joanna Margaret Paul / Illustrations from “Rooms and Episodes” / 5, 12, 33 & 119
Joanna Margaret Paul / A Passionate Pilgrimage in Time / 6-12
Hamish Dewe / Parting Closure: Imogen and Unwrapping the Body / 13-32
Joanna Margaret Paul / Rooms and Episodes: 1 – Album / 34-41
Joanna Margaret Paul / from Rooms and Episodes: 2 – Written at St Omer / 42-55
Bernadette Hall / Bread for Isaiah / 56-60
Leicester Kyle / Peninsula Days / 61-64
Joanna Margaret Paul / from Songs of Seven Seasons / 65-84
Hamish Dewe / Blessings on Morandi / 85
Bernard Gadd / Christ Carrying the Cross / 86
Paula Green / Afternoon tea with Joanna P / 87-88
David Howard / Joanna Paul at Wanganui / 89
Scott Hamilton / The Five Lives of Donald Crowhurst / 90-94
Jack Ross / Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) / 95-98
William Direen / Expatriation (non)-conclusions / 99
John O’Connor / Haiku: Public Health Warning / 100-102
Jack Ross / Reviews: Brian Bell; Alan Brunton; Sue Fitchett;
Michael Harlow, Anne Kennedy; Michele Leggott; C. K. Stead / 103-107
Paula Green / Kendrick Smithyman: Campana to Montale / 108-112
David Howard / Call for Material: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie / 112
Richard Taylor / Class 4AcA, Tamaki College (1963) / 113
Brett Cross / New Novellas from Titus Books / 114
Scott Hamilton / Jack Ross: Monkey Miss her Now / 115-119
Contributor Notes / 120

[Cover image: Anya Whitlock]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Number 33 - exile and home (March 2006):

Editor Emeritus: C. K. Stead
Editorial Committee: Scott Hamilton, Jack Ross, Brett Cross, Claudia Westmoreland, Richard Taylor.

[brief #33 is dedicated to Tama Poata, 1939-2005.]

Various Artists / Field Recording at Galbraith’s Alehouse / 4
Mark Young / Country of Origin / 8
John Geraets / Two Poems / 9
Richard von Sturmer / Walking / 11
Michael Arnold / Shenyang / 13
Bill Direen / Journal Entry on Repatriation / 19
Anya Whitlock / from Anya’s Sketchy Zine / 21
Owen Bullock / ‘Exile and Home’ / 23
Mike Love / Notes from Dunedin to Blenheim and Back / 25
Moira Clunie / from Child That Mind #4 / 27
Henry Talbot / Milk / 31
Will-Joy Christie / Two Poems / 38
Jill Chan / Prose Poems / 40
K. M. Ross / Exile and the Wolf / 41
Leicester Kyle / A Letter from Buller / 44
Mark Young / Exile and the Middle Kingdom / 46
Hamish Dewe / Poems from Onehunga-on-the-Yangtze / 48
Scott Hamilton / Three Philosophical Defences / 50
Richard Taylor / The Panmure Tavern Songbook / 54
Frank Pervan / To Ron Riddell / 59
Richard Taylor / A Refusal to Explicate Te Kopuru / 63
Jack Ross / Smithyman Goes Online / 60
Kendrick Smithyman / Te Kopuru / 66
Kathryn Dudding / This is not a Family Photo Album / 75
Robert McLean / A Review of Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Speech! Speech!’ / 76
Peter Crisp / Ikons & Afterglow / 77
Martin Sanderson and Wanjiku Kiarie / From Oxford to Waimaramara / 84
Brett Cross / Entrances / 105
Jack Ross / From the Twilight Kingdom / 106
Jessica Le Bas / the angel/nurse / 109
Nathan MacGregor / Pages from a Journal / 110
Tracey Johnson / Deconstructing the Pakeha Gaze: Whale Rider / 115
Kendrick Smithyman / Haworth Parsonage / 120
Dave Bedggood / A Modem Greek Tragedy / 122
Nicholas Reid / Ill-Clothed But Widely Read / 128
Andreas Bulow / Culture and Revolution in Venezuela / 131
Raewyn Alexander / unuttered words are dark sideboards of china / 133
Siobhan Harvey / How To Survive Election Night / 134
May lremonger / they say that ... / 135
Brenda Ann Burke / Detachments / 136
Sam Bracanov / Two Statements / 137
Jack Ross / Ancestral Voices (part one) / 139
Notes on Contributors / 149

[Cover images Ellen Portch]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Number 34 - war (February 2007):

Anonymous / Leaflet distributed at Whenuapai Air Base in February 2003 / 4
Jack Ross / For Leicester Hugo Kyle / 6
Scott Hamilton / More than Pain: Leicester Kyle 1937-2006 / 12
Richard Taylor / Leicester Kyle (Friend, poet, and scientist) / 19
Pete Lusk / Leicester on the Coast / 25
Leicester Kyle / Three Poems / 27
Vincent O’Sullivan / Homecoming / 30
Don Franks / Response to Vincent O’Sullivan / 31
Stephen Oliver / O Say Can You Hear? / 32
Charles Bernstein / It’s 8:23 in New York / 34
Ron Silliman / What is to be Done / 40
Barrett Watten / What is to be criticized / 46
Barrett Watten / War = Language / 53
Olivia Macassey / Two Poems / 55
Brenda-Ann Burke / Participant Observer / 59
Brett Cross / 20th century/heist / 60
Alan Marshall / Where did all those years go? / 61
Kathryn Dudding / The Return / 62
Richard von Sturmer / Old Ezra / 70
Kendrick Smithyman / Three War Poems / 76
Bill Direen / Misery / 83
Scott Hamilton / Private Gurney / 84
Greville Texidor and Evelyn M Hulse / San Toni / 85
Bill Direen / Rights of the Unknown Writer / 110
Sugu Pillay / 9/11 and Me / 113
K. M. Ross / The Art of. .. / 116
Michael Arnold / /cities.33 / 120
Stacey Arnold / Divya / 155
Richard Taylor / The Policeman Still Has Two / 156
Hamish Dewe / [untitled notes] / 159
Martyn Sanderson / Transport / 162
Jen Crawford / Primary School, Port Kembla / 163
Henry Talbot / Native / 164
Marion Jones / Chest, Fence / 165
Ted Jenner / Pieces / 166
Scott Hamilton / Bill’s Telescope / 173
Scott Hamilton / From First to Fourth Gear / 178
Scott Hamilton / Rescuing the Typewriter / 182
Notes on Contributors / 186

[Cover image: Matt Kelly]

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Editor: Brett Cross
Number 35 - A brief world order (September 2007):

Scott Hamilton / Franklin District Field Trips; Dream / 4
Olivia Macassey / The Internal Eel; The reflecting pool; Dissent / 9
Jack Ross / The Purloined Letter / 14
Will Christie / Bolt; The Old Story / 34
Michael Steven / Anthology; Brutes; Aubade / 38
Nathan MacGregor / Drawings / 41, 59
Sally McIntyre / Jeanne d’Arc; stations / 42
Jen Crawford / bad appendix / 50
Alex von Huhen / the poem / 57
Mario Melendez / Black Symphony; The Daughter of Rimbaud / 58
Olwyn Stewart/Paul Amlehn / I write these despicable lines / 60
Richard Taylor / from The Infinite Poem; Untitled / 61
Nathan MacGregor / Wolf Moon Rising / 64
Bill Direen / Written out of existence / 66
Richard von Sturmer / This World (and None Other) / 69
Michael Morrissey / Reading about Poland / 75
Brett Cross / senses scattered; through a window / 76
David Lyndon Brown / Decompression / 78
K. M. Ross / Te lka / 83
Henry Talbot / Sunshine / 88
Ted Jenner / Impressions of Africa / 91
Hamish Dewe / Sydney; remains / 92
Michael Arnold / Perspire / 95

Reviews:

William Direen / Falling Through the Architect by K. M. Ross / 102
Olivia Macassey / Free Range Poems; ed. Miriam Barr / 104
Dr Deidre Brown / The Fellowship: exhibition by Ellen Portch / 106
Will Christie / Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Olivia Macassey / 114
Michael Steven / To the Moon, In Seven Easy Steps by Scott Hamilton / 117
K.M. Ross / Song of the Brakeman by Bill Direen / 120
Scott Hamilton / To Terezin by Jack Ross / 122
Olwyn Stewart / Bill Direen / Marked Men by David Lyndon Brown / 126
Contributors /128

[Cover image: Sherry Hamid]

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Editors: Brett Cross & Bill Direen
Number 36 - The NZ Music Issue (September 2008):

Manifesta of (dys-)organised sound / 3
Brief CD track list / 6
Antony Milton / PseudoArcana / 7
Will Christie / Exclaimants / 16
Bill Pitt / Aranda Snow, Village, End / 19
Jen Crawford / ALBUMBLATT / 23
Scott Hamilton / Te Kakano Information Centre, Tuwhare / 24
Owen Bullock / Song for X / 28
Michael Steven / Silver Paint, Custody / 29
Jack Ross / Extract from EMO / 31
Ted Jenner / PROPERTIUS 2.11 / 41
Phoebe Smith / Duckpond / 42
Olivia Macassey / Persephone / 44
Richard Taylor / Eyelight / 46
William Direen / An Interview with a Dunedin Artist / 65
Richard von Sturmer / Plague Days, Bus Notes / 66
Iain Britton / Hiroshima and Freely do I Sing / 81
K. M. Ross / The Clay Monster / 83
Harvey Molloy / Il est Minuit / 87
George Henderson / My Spunky Little Friend, or, the Suburban Sub-Umbra, The Nerve, The old songbook, The Last Original Song / 88
David Lyndon Brown / Cavafy's Shoes, Lost Fragments from the Thief's Journal / 96
Bill Direen / Twelve Songs from a Berlin Experience / 101

Reviews:

Ted Jenner / Papyri by Jack Ross / 111
Jack Ross/ Climbing off the Barricades: Review of Dream Boat: Selected Poems, by Tony Beyer & A Good Handful ed. Stu Bagby / 114
Scott Hamilton / Seeking 'a different reality principle': Review of The Rotten Elements by Edward Upward / 119
Contributors' Notes / 125

Brief #36 CD:

1. Antony Milton - A Brief Tenure
2. Bill D & Thom G'Shrey - Birds & Telephones
3. Chris Matthews - O My Soul
4. Scott Hamilton & Bill D & S. Porter
5. Mary Heney (+SEP) - Shade
6. Greg Cairns - Actually I Have to Take that Picture Down (NB Common Attribution)
7. J. Ross + P. Fischlinger - The Cat
8. Will Christie - Animals
9. Jacques ReBrellion - Madeleine
10. Aural Disclosures - Split Stick
11. Frances Direen - Untitled
12. Gjoko Mohabihr - Alas Glas
13. S. Porter & Bill D - Sunday Mix
14. Mercator's Map - Kieran Monaghan
15. Cookie Brooklyn - Untitled
16. Sponge - Moon in the Moog
17. Miles Mina - Mashin'
18. Geoff Harrington - Untitled
19. Padmanabha Fischlinger - Untitled
20. D. L. Brown - from Marked Men
21. Marineville - Here I am
22. Bill Pitt - Native Poet
23. R. Taylor - The Things Smiling
24. Bobs for Jobs - Vaut Rien
25. Magnetic Pain - Sold in China
26. Dora Dandolo - play
27. S. Porter - Word In Your Ear

[Cover image: Ben Ou, "One Tree Hill" (2007)]

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Editor: Michael Arnold
Number 37 - the exotic (April 2009):

Ted Jenner / Spinning A Soft Endless Web / 2
Mike Johnson / Commuting to Waiheke / 8
Jack Ross / In Love with the Chinese Novel / 10
Will Christie / Clotho on the Dancefloor - Wingettes / 29
K M Ross / Venusian Transit / 32
Nathan MacGregor / For Don / 39
Scott Hamilton / Shooting the Gods - To Wiremu Tamihana / 41
Hamish Dewe / Shanghai - Eleven / 48
John Geraets / Igatpuri, Dhamma Giri / 50
E Goodman & W Ao / Translations of New Chinese Poetry / 52
Uddipana Goswami / Mother Goddess Kamakhya / 54
Michael Arnold / thrall / 59
David Lyndon Brown / White Room / 64
Rogelio Guedea / from Free Fall (Tr. Peter Broad and Sandra Merill) 70
Doc Drumheller / How to Tie a Knot Around the World / 73
Janet Charman / Who do you See? / 74
Brett Cross / Jerusalem - return / 76
Michael Steven / Six Poems by Samuel Beckett / 78
William Direen / 14.2-19.2 - Sam Johnson and the Widow / 80
Richard von Sturmer / from Fabulae / 82
Richard Taylor / from Eyelight / 84
Graeme Perrin / Saltworks (extract) 9th work - Down South (i) / 88
Brenda Ann Burke / Shift ending / 89
Janis Freegard / Coleoptera / 90
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán / Honig / 91
Alex Wild Jespersen / from The Constant Losers / 92
Gabriel White / Alphaghetti - The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis / 96
Notes on Contributors / 115

[Cover image: Emma Smith, "Wolfwhistler" (2007)]

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Editor: Jen Crawford
Number 38 (August [September] 2009):

Wystan Curnow / Blue Tips / 4
Emma Phillipps / that we move from plastic / 5
Ross Brighton / Blue Light - Metallic / 7
Joseph Cahill-Lane / C a l i b u r n / 8
Mez Breeze / <----[inter]Sections-A+B-> / 17
Lisa Samuels / Coop / 18
Richard Taylor / Marchenbilder / 23
Martin Edmond / Dungog - Rorschach Tests for Trees / 24
Sarah Broom / Heat / 26
Rachel O'Neill / Embarking on her other names / 27
Mark Young / from Genji Monogatari / 30
Alison Glenny / Mandoline / 32
Gareth van Sambeek / from Transgender Horse / 33
Janet Charman / The Honeymoon Bath / 38
Jack Ross / The Assassination Weapon - Anzac Day / 46
Rangi Faith / Homage To The Pufferfish / 49
joanne burns / is pointing still considered rude - whom did you expect / 50
John Geraets / Colourless leaves / 52
Richard von Sturmer / Train Notes / 53
Andrew Burke / Happy Hour / 56
Scott Hamilton / Eripene / 57
Mariana Isara / ink jet transfusion / 59
William Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton / 61
Gus Simonovic / One of Us / 70
Anna Rugis / Travelling Light / 72
Craig Cliff / Space For A Thousand Secrets / 73
Jennifer Compton / A Small Town on the Coast / 74
Douglas Barbour / Rose / 76
Cameron Hockly / Watching / 79
Tony Green / A Miscellany [2006 -2008] / 80
Murray Edmond / This One That One - Miniature / 84
Will Christie / C/rea[c]t/e / 86
Ian Finch / Revolving Wormhole - Organ of Corti / 87

Reviews:

Jack Ross on Martin Edmond's The Supply Party / 89
Ross Brighton on Ted Jenner's Writers in Residence and Other Captive Fauna, Sandy Florian's The Tree of No, and Lara Glenum's Maximum Gaga / 94
Notes on Contributors / 100

[Cover image: Ellen Portch, "Green"]

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Editor: Michael Arnold
Number 39 (December 2009 [March 2010]):

Michael Arnold / Editor's Note / 2
K. M. Ross / Thrash / 3
Janet Charman / 'look behind you' / 10
William Direen / Hyperbaton [ctd.] / 16
Vaughan Rapatahana / Aotearoa blues, baby - Encounter - Rata villa, Ngawhatu - wharenui / 24
Jack Ross / from The Puppet Oresteia / 33
Janis Freegard / Speaking of the Balloonist / 43
Jennifer Compton / Bungundah Does Things A Little Differently / 45
John Parkyn / Night of the Elephants / 47
Marion Jones / Apparition / 58
Scott Hamilton / St. Joseph's - The Suicider - Self-criticism - The Inland Sea / 59
Richard Taylor / Cold Moving Coldness - It Would Be a Mistake Not to Rise / 68
Belinda Diepenheim / Lake Rotoiti / 71
Ted Jenner / Mandolin - motuihe midden / 74
Richard von Sturmer / Yes / 76
Sarah Jane Barnett / The Picnic - Greece - Contours / 80
Stephanie Christie / Electroeneephalographia / 82
Brett Cross / Latona / 87
David Lyndon Brown / Sugartown 7 a.m. - Te Henga - Florilegium - Under the Museum - On the Jetty / 94
Andrew Burke / If the World is thought - Linfen Morning - From The Centre Out / 100
Michael Estabrook / 5 Snapshots in the Rain / 108
Lisa Samuels / Envoi - Love story - adorno - from Tender Girl / 109

Reviews:

Richard Taylor / EMO by Jack Ross / 116
Ross Brighton / Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot by Kate Durbin / 122
Jen Crawford / Built, project. by Emma Phillipps - Wood by Jeanne Bernhardt / 124
Hamish Dewe / Free Fall by Rogelio Guedea / 127
Notes on Contributors / 130

[Cover image: John Dickson & Ted Jenner, “After Hours Return"]

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Editor: Ted Jenner
Number 40 (June 2010 [July 2010]):

Ted Jenner / Editor's Note /2
Richard von Sturmer / Conversations with Clarice /4
Jack Ross / Memoirs from beyond the Grave - Badges - Sor Juana lnés de la Cruz /9
Richard Reeve / Uptake /14
Sugu Pillay / The Tree in its Setting - Lindis Pass /15
S. Nadja Zajdman / Nana / 17
Michael Morrissey / Pre-Posthumous Meditation on Keats /19
Murray Edmond / Ecstasy: A Short Film - The Animals of the Bed ­ The Gates of Paradise /20
Vaughan Rapatahana / old Tom - from father through son to son / 24
Michael Estabrook / The Rumba with Patti - goats Oklahoma and frozen 30 candles - during the snowstorm - The Continuity of Life /30
Wystan Curnow / At the Hotel /33
William Direen / Hyperbaton or The Ballad of rue Belliard [ctd] /35
Michael Farrell / jill jones eyes - dear sincerely - cocoon /42
Michael Steven / Here, the Lovers - Blackburn's Last Strut /48
Anna Rugis / She tries to explain that thing she doesn't do ­ Exploding the Myth - Shift – Humidity ­ Marmalade Pudding /51
Hamish Dewe / Head Table - Auckland Star - 2009/56
Iain Britton / The Scarecrow /59
Ross Brighton / Birds /61
K. M. Ross / The Headless: Lucy /66
S. H. Hamilton / Twenty Theses Against Space and Time /70
Richard Taylor / Reading Things /80
Tony Green / lines from SKETCHES 59–61 /87
S. H. Hamilton / On the Island /90
Michael Harlow & Kit Powell / Devotion to the Small /98
Olivia Macassey / The Death of Porthos / 117

Reviews:

Ted Jenner / Enclosures by Bill Direen /119
Ted Jenner / The Tramconductor’s Blue Cap by Michael Harlow /123
Notes on Contributors / 131

[Cover image: Ted Jenner, "There We Go"]

[Cover image: Richard von Sturmer, “Straps on Railway Freight Carriages"]

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Editor: Richard von Sturmer
Number 41 (November 2010 [December 2010]):

Richard von Sturmer / Editor's Note / 2
Simon Jackson / Question Mark - Apostrophe - The boy who didn't like bananas - 100 Years of the Poetry Society / 3
Marion Jones / Degrees of Whiteness - Sasha / 6
Andrea Quinlan / 2 Poems from Sedmikrásky /8
K. M. Ross / The Headless: Coleop / 10
Michael Harlow / Take five: composition for words and music - Short talk on a Sunday afternoon with John Cage - Day­book of thought-songs - Sweeping the courtyard / 14
Michael Farrell / thrills 2 - minimalism over two pages - simone de beauvoir / 19
Vaughan Rapatahana / no surface - pestilence - at Waikanae / 26
Iain Britton / Gestures - Apparitions - Punctured Experimental / 34
Lisa Samuels / Haptic radio / 42
Manon Revuelta / Meadowable - Voice, The - Re-veal / 45
Wystan Curnow / Altaussee / 48
Richard Taylor / again) - we did the Name Thing (when she was certain) / 50
Zarah McGunnigle / This would go on / 53
Jack Ross / Celanie: 5 Versions from Paul Celan / 54
Richard von Sturmer / Six Book of Equanimity Verses / 60
John Geraets / Extrapolations / 62
Michael Morrissey / 52 Questions in the Reel Life of a Stone Washed Man / 66
William Direen / Wednesday 9 / 74
Marty Blayney / Postrenku - Dust Pans / 78
Ngahuia Harrison / A Day of Visiting - Dirt / 80
Scott Hamilton / An Annotated Guide to Mungo National Park / 82
Dale Johnson / Permanent Change / 91

Reviews:

Roger Horrocks / Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life by Leigh Davis / 94
Elmar Ludwig / Kingdom of Alt by Jack Ross / 103
Notes on Contributors / 106

[Front cover image: Sandra Bianciardi, “Terre et ombre"]

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Editor: William Direen
Number 42 (March 2011 [May 2011]):

Sarah Bogle / 4 Poems / 3
Ted Jenner / from Genius Loci / 7
William Direen / On 1st looking into Lisa Samuels'Mama Mortality Corridos / 9
Greg Kan / 3 Poems / 13
Jennifer Compton / Against the Silences to Come / 14
Marion Jones / 4 Poems / 16
Franco Bianciardi / Couronne I - Crown I - Personne - No one / 18
Orchid Tierney / 4 Poems / 22
Janet Charman / on the sliding rack - i thought that visit would be - the anthology of women's poetry / 26
Richard von Sturmer / Crossing the Mind / 32
Vaughan Rapatahana / 4 Poems / 33
Andrea Quinlan / A History of Haarige / 38
Jack Ross / Johnsons or Shits: Mike Johnson's Travesty / 40
Nick Ascroft / The random infinite / 45
Michael Morrissey / The (My) House / 48
K. M. Ross / Ballad of the Kitchen Corner / 58
John Adams / Did you hear the snicker ... / 63
Pip Adam / Alan MacDiarmid Building / 64
Andrew Dean / Writing the South: Landfall, Baxter and Frame / 65
Paul Veart / In lieu of flowers - John Logan's Long Shadow / 70
Bill Direen / Two Paris Exhibitions / 79
Giovanni Tiso / Too Loud a Solitude: Bohumil Hrabal / 80
William Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton / 83
Mel Rands / 4 Texts / 85
Scott Hamilton / Crossing the Plains: a journey in twelve notes / 89
Jill Chan / After coming back from nowhere, / 96
Hamish Dewe / 9 Poems / 98
Mick Borrado / Turning Japanese / 103
Notes on Contributors / 109

[Rear cover image: Sherry Hamid, “Sonar Hunter"]

[Cover image: Ellen Portch, “untitled",
from the series Wall (2010)]

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Editor: Hamish Dewe
Number 43 (October 2011 [November 2011]):

Manon Revuelta / sleeve red of milken bees ... / 5
John Geraets / Poems - Stunning Debut: Willy's return / 6
Sarah Bogle / (Law school/ dichotomy / then smile) / 22
Scott Hamilton / Blackbirding - The Law of Equivalence - The Parachutist - Five Dreams - Osip - Invitation to a Stoning / 24
Richard von Sturmer / We Batten On / 38
Vaughan Rapatahana / ko mutu inaianei - no kai - Whetumatarau / 50
Stephanie Christie / Mindnight - An Argument / 55
Brett Cross / shadow / slink / 58
Lisa Samuels / from Life Sentence / 59
David Howard / Unemployment - Paperwork / 67
Iain Britton / in zambia / like elsewhere - & all that tactile stuff / 71
Ted Jenner / 'Wet traffic ghosting through the night' / 78
Giovanni Tiso / The Canto of Ulysses / 84
Bill Direen / Extract from Hyperbaton, or the Ballad of Rue Belliard (word 9692 to 10939) / 90
Jacques Coulardeau / Bill Direen: Devonport, A Diary, Esplanade / 96
Jen Crawford / Ahh - salt / 99
Notes on Contributors / 102

[Front cover image: Scott Hamilton]

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Editor: Scott Hamilton
Numbers 44 & 45 - Oceania (April 2012 [May 2012]):

Cover Photo: Scott Hamilton / Cover Design: Brett Cross
Scott Hamilton / Editor’s Note - Never Mind the Frangipani / 2
Futa Helu / Letter to the New Zealand Herald / 5
Vaughan Rapatahana / An Interview and Three Poems / 6
Murray Edmond / The Steps Towards ‘Von Tempsky’s Dance’ / 12
Leicester Kyle / The Life / 19
’Okusitino Mahina / An Essay and Two Poems / 21
Scott Hamilton / The Island of Exiles / 26
John McCaffery & Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery / Complaint to the Human Rights Commission / 36
Sarah Bogle / My Kin is the Dirt / 41
Andrew Dean / An Interview and an Essay / 42
Michael Morrissey / Between Two Pacific Islands / 49
Kendrick Smithyman / Three Poems / 52
Jack Ross / The Great White Silence / 56
Rachel Fenton / A Poem. and a Note about the Barnsley dialect / 77
Marty Mars / Two Poems / 79
Giovanni Tiso / Six Inches to a Mile / 80
Stephanie Christie / Niue / 84
VO Blum / An Interview and an Excerpt from DownMind / 86
Hamish Dewe / ‘This fortnight the evenings ...’ / 95
Naomi Richards / Talofa Miss Brown / 96
Richard Taylor / from Eyelight / 100
Iain Britton / profile of a yellow circle / 104
Vaughan Rapatahana / Two Visits to Nauru / 106
Rogelio Guedea / Timeline (Tr. Megan Saltzman) / 115
Alex Wild / from “There is No War Here” / 120
Ted Jenner / The Arrow that Missed / 126
Denys Trussell / A Letter and a Poem / 128
Futa Helu / The Fakatangi (from the Tongan Poetry series) / 130
Mark Derby / An Interview and an Essay / 133
Lisa Samuels / Nervous Water / 149
Brett Cross / A Note and a Poem about the Kaipara / 152
Dave Bedggood & Owen Gager / from Towards a Socialist Polynesia / 156
Leicester Kyle / Bridge to the Sea / 165
Michael Amold / from Cashlin (Shape) / 166
Paul Janman / The I Ching in the Eye of ’Atenisi Realism / 169
George Griffith / from Outlaws of the Air / 184
Reviews & Notes / 186
Scott Hamilton / Boarding Paul Janman’s Tongan Ark / 187
" / Tapu, Pigs, and Power; Discussing Tongan Ark / 193
" / A Preliminary Report on the End of the World / 198
Jack Ross / Leicester Kyle’s Koroneho / 206
Dougal McNeil / In the Gap / 208
Scott Hamilton / Alex Wild, Blogging, and the Curse of Coolness / 213
Anne Amundsen / Lost: a Literary Treasure, Last Seen in Tonga / 217
Scott Hamilton / The Kids are Alright / 219
Tim Bowron / A Communication / 222
Vaughan Rapatahana / Announcing the Publication of English Language as Hydra / 223
Richard von Sturmer / Message / 226
Notes on Contributors / 227

[Front cover image: Grant Banbury, “Untitled photo-postcard:
vacant lot, Colombo Street, Sydenham, Christchurch" (c. June 2011)]

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Editor: Bronwyn Lloyd
Number 46 - Survival (November 2012):

Bronwyn Lloyd / Editorial / 3
Michele Leggott / a brief history of time / 5
Jennifer Compton / from Ungainly / 8
Richard von Sturmer / from the Notebooks of Hector Velasco / 11
Ted Jenner / Lonely Hearts / 17
Bernadette Hall / How they ran into each other again at the Old Girls' Reunion / 21
Richard Taylor / Ongoing Story I-III / 24
Anne Ross / Three fragments / 27
Libby Brickell / Invisibility / 34
Alison Glenny / The Red Flower / 35
Naomi Richards / Ocean Songs / 38
Kelly Malone / crafting tension between lyric and narrative / line of the signs / 44
Doc Drumheller / The Republic of Oma Rapeti / 47
Isabel Michell / Go Home Stay Home / 48
Rachel O'Neill / Finder of the Furthest Galaxy / 61
Michael Morrissey / Landing on the Moon / 62
Stu Bagby / Day 15 / 69
Bernadette Hall / Door / 76
Leicester Kyle / Diary of a Country Cop / 78
Vaughan Rapatahana / he whatinga / 84
Jack Ross / Interpreting Paul Celan / 85
Barry Moffatt / transparencies III / 102
Kate Davis / Aimee / 106
Iain Britton / the list / 114
Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway / Arrival or Departure / 118
Martin Edmond / from Eternities / 119
L. E. Scott / Broomstick / Realisation / 131
K. M. Ross / The Last Great Road Race / 133
Vaughan Rapatahana / jacky marmon / 140
Scott Hamilton / Review of Fallen Empire, a collaboration between Jack Ross and MOTH / 142
Isabel Michell / Review of Bronwyn Lloyd's The Second Location / 149
Notes on Contributors / 151

[Rear cover image: Grant Banbury, “photo-postcard"]