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James Stuart cuts loose with an investigation into visual poetry. Read his article in PDF format, featuring images from "Words and Things" (Patrick Jones, ed): "To put it otherwise, without again resorting to piss-poor metaphor, it strikes me that what is carried across from poetry into visual poetry is not so much the poetic, as I understand it, but its compression to a graphic trope in pre-defined textual spaces." Plus, read Patrick Jones' response.

Trivikrama Kumari Jamwal expounds upon the unlikely but fascinating prospect of running into Judith Wright in Jammu, India: "Being from a country that cannot seem to stop boasting about its ancient legacies and from a family whose own history goes back seventy-five generations, I find it incomprehensible how any self-respecting nation could spend over a century in looking outside of itself for a 'heritage'." More ...

REVIEWS

Michael Farrell and Will Day both attended a performance of Richard Frankland's Charcoal Club at this year's Melbourne Festival. Check out the similarities, not to mention the differences! Plus reviews of recent books by Tony Page, Benito di Fonzo, Paul Mitchell, Sean M. Whelan, Jill Jones, Paul Hardacre, John Tranter and more. Go!

Read Liam Ferney's poetry editorial.