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'Welcome to Australian Poetry Journal 7.1, part of the new suite of poetry publications by Australian Poetry. This year’s Australian Poetry Anthology (guest eds., Lisa Gorton and Toby Fitch), published in March, was the first in this series. The designer is Stuart Geddes, with the vision of a physical elegance and beauty to reflect the calibre of the modern, contemporary, various poetry contained within: photographic art features on covers. Another trope is the commissioning of poetry guest editors for each volume of APJ. This allows the Journal to flex issue to issue, and to curate a broad while meritorious range of poetic voice. The poetry selections for 7.1, themed to ‘skin’, have been guest-edited collaboratively by Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ellen van Neerven, two of the country’s leading Aboriginal poets and editors. Their choice, selecting from the high level of open submissions by both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) poets, and poets who are not, was to divide their poems into two distinct sections: SKIN I POEMS, which opens the poetry here, are poems by poets who identify as ATSI; SKIN II POEMS are poems by non-ATSI poets, while still reflecting a cultural breadth. Some of the poems were commissioned by the editors from new Aboriginal poets located in workshops, some in far-flung territory. The Journal closes with another new feature for APJ: an extensive suite of poems, commissioned specifically by Australian Poetry, as presented across our annual major capital city literary festival partnerships. Both van Neerven and Eckermann, independently, were presented in this series, edited by the program director of our Australian Poets Festival 2016–2017, Toby Fitch. Thank-you to the essential support of our main funders: Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria and Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.' (Publisher Note)
Contents
- Guest Editors' Introduction, single work essay (p. 9-11)
- If We Had Fencesi"If we had fences...", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Undulatingi"Pulse", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Unityi"As a sleeping workd begins to awake,", single work poetry (p. 16)
- You Are Morei"You are so much more than what they think you are.", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Australia's Silenced Historyi"Australia's silenced history", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Who Are We to Judge?i"You are nothing more than human", single work poetry (p. 20)
- First Lawi"Systems isolated, closed, vacuum", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Concrete Beneath My Feeti"There's concrete beneath my feet", single work poetry (p. 22-25)
- Whispers Unspokeni"There's a beautiful woman who walks the earth.", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Songlinesi"Come with us on a journey", single work poetry (p. 27)
- I Remember You as a Child, single work poetry (p. 28)
- The Chipperi"The toughened ground lay strong.", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Icei"On the corner of a street", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Milki"Turn the foucet", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Regressioni"If I had rights and you had non, could you explain?", single work poetry (p. 33)
- Double Whammyi"He knew that look", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Stand Stilli"It's the 21st century", single work poetry (p. 35)
- Strawberry Juicei"My page is spotted with strawberry juice, they were plump, pink", single work poetry (p. 36-37)
- Transitioni"The world merged and the individual braced", single work poetry (p. 38-39)
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Guest Editors' Introduction
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 1 2017; (p. 9-11)
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Guest Editors' Introduction
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 1 2017; (p. 9-11)