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'Why ‘Earth’? Because we are of it, because we are destroying it, because there is nowhere else. Because to think about anything else right now feels like dissociation.
'The theme of this special issue isn’t radical. It’s not political. It’s not alarmist. It’s simply about drawing attention to a clear and present danger, something that is true: life on Earth, as we know it, is under threat. As for the relationship between this matter and poetry, isn’t truth-seeking what we like to think of as the job of the artist? Or are we just being poetic and self-regarding when we say that?' (Maria Takolander, Editorial introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
When Words Have No Equals: A Response to Lisa Robertson’s Thresholds: A Prosody of Citizenship by Judy Annear
3 Inger-Mari Aikio Translations by Kasper Salonen
Long Poem Translation of Marilyne Bertoncini by Dominique Hecq
3 Hasan Alizadeh Translations by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould
Two Meditations on the Ecology By John Hoppenthaler
That Summer in Montpellier, the Botanic Garden By Gerry Loose
Early Evening at the Coal Plant by Erik Kennedy
The Fish-Twins by Michael Protacio-De Guzman
Main Street Mamas: Stay Safe, Beauty:) by Anne Lesley Selcer
Forecast 2030 by King Llanza
I wish human destruction was like… By Megan Wildhood
Hands in the Earth by Dylan Brennan
Squids by Corey Hill
Guidelines By Hibah Shabkhez
Amazon up in smoke by Christian Garduno
At A Summer Festival This Year by Miguel Garcia
Storied Storage by Bill Howell
Dark Crystals by Chris Holdaway
Rules is rules by Jilly O'Brien
The Museum of Trees by Susan Wardell
The time has come for you to lip sync by Robyn Maree Pickens
The Garden behind the Moon by Reena Choudhary
Cherry Blossom by Susannah Violette
Conveyor by Iain Twiddy
The Meadow Is Filled with Stones by Romana Iorga
Lifting doom’s veil by Bobbie Sparrow
Contents
- Colours of the Ground : How Local Pigments Seek Local Words, single work essay
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Itjaritjari,
single work
essay
'This is a story about strangeness and familiarity. It begins in the year I turned twenty. I was working as a park ranger in Central Australia. One day a local Anangu woman came into the ranger station and handed me a white plastic shopping bag. ‘Itjaritjari,’ she said.' (Introduction)
- Rosencrantz and Gildenstern and Collaborethics, selected work prose
- Collaborethics, single work prose
- Rosencrantz and Guildensterni"The embryo transitions through", single work poetry
- Incomplete Disclosuresi"All my journalist friends tell me,", single work poetry
- The Case of the Animals Versus Humans Before the King of the Jinn, single work graphic novel
- When I Look I Am Seen, so I Exist, single work graphic novel
- Doppelgangers Across Lands : 6 Poems by Emily Sun, selected work poetry
- Originsi"to effectively start on this", single work poetry
- Bak Kut Teh on Wuyi Shani"remember how timidly you threw the word out", single work poetry
- Doppelgänger Across Landsi"Do you think we look like strangers?", single work poetry
- Red, White, Bluesi"In my imagined homeland,", single work poetry
- Siamese Cati"a bamboo ceiling.", single work poetry
- Smooth Criminals Revisitedi"it was sea weed", single work poetry
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‘The Amorphousness of Meaning-making’ : Elena Gomez Interviews Toby Fitch,
Elena Gomez
(interviewer),
single work
interview
'Toby Fitch is a poet who has not only published a number of books, most recently Where the Sky had Hung Before (Vagabond, 2019), but also worked across many different roles in the literary community. Aside from writing award-winning poetry – his book Rawshock (Puncher & Wattmann) won the 2012 Grace Leven Prize for poetry – he also teaches creative writing, runs workshops and events, including the monthly poetry reading night at Sappho Books Café & Wine Bar, a Sydney institution, and is poetry editor at Overland magazine. I was lucky enough to catch Toby in person during a brief Sydney visit, and we met at his local pub, Newtown’s Carlisle Castle, to talk about poetry games, the limits of precarity for poets and Robert Klippel.' (Introduction)
- Concerning Divination (2)i"For most of my life I’ve been right", single work poetry
- Greta Thunberg Odei"children the size of adults", single work poetry
- Notes on a So-called Sydney Summeri"vaping", single work poetry
- Tippingi"They say the world is teetering on a point", single work poetry
