Issue No. 2

From the print issue February 1999

Poems by EMMA LEW

Remarks on my knowing Mr B
Zen as an art of political resistance - JOHN MATEER reflects on the Afrikaans poetry of Breyten Bretenbach

Naked states
ALEXANDER LAURENCE interviews US photographer/performance artist SPENCER TUNICK

Mythic modernist mutilations
RICHARD TOOP examines the claims that contemporary music has been shanghaied by the avant garde, and finds a way to save money

The Great Baro
Fiction by the revered Cuban writer VIRGILIO PINERA, translated by HARDIE ST MARTIN

An empty church
DANIEL KEENE discourses on the moral imperatives and paradoxes of the art of theatre

The Coney mirror
A photo essay on the public spectacle of Coney Island by writer and photographer JAMES GRAHAM

Selky
Fiction by new Victorian writer ELIZABETH WESTCOTT

Untrained raindrops
Extracts from a journal of dreams kept by the poet JOHN ANDERSON

Breathe a word
Melbourne poet MICHAEL FARRELL invokes Allen Ginsberg