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'The poems in this issue of Not Very Quiet have moved, startled and delighted me, and they leave me in no doubt that (in the resounding words of Arundathi Roy) we will lay siege to empire and pave the way for another world …
'She is definitely on her way … I can hear her breathing …' (Anita Patel, Editorial introduction)
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Comme des garçons by Akka Ballenger Constantin
Eating my Ghost Ration by Devon Balwit
Ekkentros by Toni La Ree Bennett
Bones by Brooke Callen
It’s Later Than You Think by Michelle Brooks
In Paris, my eyes made me Chinese by Caris Cruz
three tanka by Anne Louise Curran
Black Dream Bird by Moyra Donaldson
Geese Pond, 1985, and a Photo of My Daughter by Apryl Fox
Flying by Mary Ellen Greenwood
Duende and Long Live L.A. by Christina Lengyel
Blade Runner 2049 by Wes Lee
Peafowl by Erin Halliday
Delinquency by Patricia L. Hamilton
Icarus by Maggie Harless
Jesus puts up a Facebook page by Michelle Hartman
Captain Longstocking Laura Hoffman
Send my roots rain Cheryl Hopson
Winter Romana Iorga
The Postman never knocks twice Shokoofeh Jabbari
Here the birds have learned by Arezu Montazer
The Night Shift Sheila Mulrooney
Juche Paula Persoleo
After Charlottesville Donna Pucciani
Fair Condition Chelsea Stone
Husband Elana Wolff
Contents
- Forgivei"I wish, planet, I could summon", single work poetry
- The Feministi"At the party", single work poetry
- Malthusi"Swigging from her over-sized sea-blue water flask, she never", single work poetry
- In One Hundred Daysi"an old man", single work poetry
- SWEAT / SHOPi"We are bound, she and I, by inevitable threads;", single work poetry
- Mining Timei"We find it, glabrous as a pearl,", single work poetry
- A Bombi"A bomb", single work poetry
- Deeds of War and Peacei"There are testaments, faith", single work poetry
- Two Ravens Sijoi"Two ravens this past three weeks are companions, their own", single work poetry
- If There’s Loss Here, I’ll Never Find Iti"Nor can I know", single work poetry
- Whitei"We see you above the path of birds, above", single work poetry
- Her Last Posti"Aunt Ellen says that you would be annoyed", single work poetry
- Daliti"A woman lies asleep upon the path.", single work poetry
- Eating the Reefi"Adrift, pursuing phantoms of lost habitats", single work poetry
- Gethsemanei"I imagine you are kneeling, the shape of you –", single work poetry
- Sinny and the Circusi"Sinny ran away from the race the other day", single work poetry
- The Accession, single work poetry
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Mary Anning Discovers the Plesiosaur, 1824i"These objects you dig around seem",
single work
poetry
Author's note: In 2010, Mary Anning was recognised by the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge as one of the 10 most influential women scientists in British history.
- Bodhi of a Poemi"The good mother, when her belly swells,", single work poetry
- Death for Beginnersi"Ten thousand fold is only a measure of the", single work poetry