ISBN: 9780984885749 $15.00 Weapons catalog descriptions: cyberpunk, academic prose, fables, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex stopping a suicide bomber. From these disparate sources Josef Kaplan creates Democracy is not for the People, his newest volume of poetry. Divided into four parts, the book confronts the unholy terrors of globalization, globalized terror, and mass-market homogeneity. These confrontations [...]

When I was young, I wanted to stain the world with my permanence which is why, I suppose, I became a poet. This is no longer the case. Old Four seasons songs from the early Sixties are more canonical than the vast majority of poems. In point of fact, a good poetry trivia question would [...]

The Master of Ceremonies Laydes and Gentilemen, welcome _____to a world made strange _____for us. ___________Allow this introduction: Rudolf is my name, on earth _______________________I was called Ruddy Bumpkin by my wife, also I was a train conductor, fancy that _______________________we’re being held here for a moment. ___________Look around— low ceiling, unnatural light like a [...]

Animal Collection is a new book of stories by Colin Winnette (author of Revelation, discussed here at THEthe). Like his previous book, it is a subtle blend of experimentation and dramaturgy. The concept: each story contains some kind of animal behaving in unusual and, in some cases, very human ways. From being cuckolded by a [...]

LOST COLONY Laconic (but not lazy), this time the lights stay on. __The formal fields have their wanton way; cherubs ____go drooling in posterior exterior, dimpled afresh. ____Generously, music unzips, points square to path __token by no occasion; in need of jetties and sweeties on some barren arm, a strap for each remembrance. Gradually recipes [...]

This entry is part of a series, Papercuts» If you force the sea through a sieve For Year 8, Frankston High School If you force the sea _____through a sieve __________stand back. Oceans will run clear and thin. __________You’ll grow bright over your dull catch – __________eat like Neptune, then sleep __________hardly feeling the neap [...]

This entry is part of a series, Papercuts» Papercuts is Australia’s only national poetry education program. Papercuts promotes the living practice of poetry through a series of workshops with contemporary Australian poets. Through Papercuts, students and educators in primary and secondary schools, correctional centres, community organisations, professional associations and universities, undertake workshops to develop their [...]