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Rebecca Cannon on Detritus
For five years Steev Hise has been collecting cultural fall out which certain detrivores would have us call art. Passionately cataloguing, nurturing and studying these oft discarded remnants of society, Hise runs the web site Detritus.net, a minefield for corporate lawyers in need of a suit ..." Archive-->

Gus Gollings: On Asian Scripts
The QWERTY keyboard has come into widespread use all over the world. It is based on the modern Latin alphabet, and it obviously does not directly support the input of the tens of thousands of ideographs from Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. The question might be asked then, why are ideographic representations desired in a computer environment? Archive-->

Jill Jones: Taipei Breathing
For 14 days over Christmas 2001, Jill Jones spent time with friends in Taipei, capital city of Taiwan. Read these brief impressions of her time there. Archive-->

Andy Jackson: No Anchovies Please!
Is there a place for combining music and poetry? Like I had just suggested putting anchovies in his ice-cream, a fellow poetry connoisseur once screwed his face up and told me that a poem put to music was not a poem at all. Mixing poetry and music was just not right. Archive -->

Martin Langford: What Audience? Which Festival?
Having recently worked as director of the Australian Poetry Festival (Burning Lines, April 2001), Martin Langford offers his contribution to the continuing discussion about how to present poetry to the public. Archive -->

A Tribute to Bruce Beaver

In April 2001, a tribute to Bruce Beaver was held as part of Burning Lines: The Australian Poetry Festival, at the Balmain Town Hall. Here's what Brook Emery said. Archive -->

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