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'I know next to nothing about sport. At school competitions, I was the freckly redhead hiding in the shade with a string of green stars on her score sheet (green = ‘not good’, as in ‘last place’). I’d throw a shot-put a full arm’s length and my one attempt at javelin gave me a bruise on the back of my head. I was the kid who was picked last for a team, that kid who got winded by a flying softball, and who conjured fake periods to get out of swimming class.' (Editorial introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Chinese Characters and Experimental Poetics : Reflections, New Directions by Li Lu
Contents
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Poetry Editorial,
single work
essay
(p. 6-7)
'Liberatore went into that last pack optimistically and came out misty optically' was how legendary AFL commentator Dennis Cometti once described an on-field misadventure that left Footscray scragger Tony Liberatore bleeding from above his eye. That's poetry.' (Introduction)
- Dropping in on Lockie Leonard : A Review of 'Breath'i"Tomorrow the low arrives Or should", single work poetry (p. 8-11)
- Stormi"Before the storm's slaughter", single work poetry (p. 12-14)
- On Skateboarding Brieflyi"recycling the city's geography", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
- Tool Boxi"My shrink asks me what's in my toolbox.", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- At the Gym, Outside the Ringi"shortening butt firmly with matches", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- I Ami"The cost of mediocrity is", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- Ornithomorphici"She's kitted up, knee-deep in frothed surf.", single work poetry (p. 24-26)
- Running the Tani"A VAFA C-grade centre-half", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- Thursday Night Trainingi"The bitumen between dad's car", single work poetry (p. 30-32)
- Overdose Statisticsi"We threw rocks at the ref's van-", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- Playi"I can't play anymore the play is dumb the play is sultry", single work poetry (p. 36-43)
- Hell I Coppedi"the Pittwater sky has a mean streak", single work poetry (p. 44-45)
- Cantos XXIIi"Who wants to be the next big thing anyway?", single work poetry (p. 46-47)
- Dick Johnson Hits a Rock, 1980i"Mortgage your Daisy Hill home to fix up", single work poetry (p. 48-49)
- The Slow Balli"Another brutal summer. Young enough to bowl fast, when hungover", single work poetry (p. 50-51)
- Double/Back Full-Full-Fulli"the Olympus 12 would have been of proud-", single work poetry (p. 52-53)
- For the Most Reverend Ian George, Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, Patron of Port Power, With a Copy of Kicking in Dangeri"A poet dressed in prose attire", single work poetry (p. 54-56)
- Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhoweri"On the grass near the Seventeenth stood Eisenhower's Tree.", single work poetry (p. 57-58)
- Gerald Rudolph Fordi"Packers & Lions looking on", single work poetry (p. 60-61)
