Lit-Mag #46 – GANGAN Lit-Mag 1996

Hazel Smith

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque The wrong Tom Jenks I looked him up on the Internet but it’s the wrong Tom Jenks histories banged together, homepages for high jinks it repeats as it permutes, but it also rejigs the past welcome to the mix and match of discombobulated planes to cross is not only to traverse, … Hazel Smith weiterlesen

Tegan Jane Schetrumpf

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque How can you? With the pop, pop, of apoptosis in your ear weave and dodge words you’d rather not hear? There’s a pulse. Diastolic da-dum. The beat of a drum. Empty skin. And the dong. The dignified chime of some grandfather clock measuring time with his hickory switch. You bare two… Tegan Jane Schetrumpf weiterlesen

Phil Norton

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque Nighttime Prayer (Madrigal Mix) Norton’s performance combines spoken word with electronic beats and live looping into a jazz-infused energetic storm of emotive tales. He has performed at festivals around Australia and the world, most notably appearing at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Night Words Festival and on the… Phil Norton weiterlesen

Nova Longhurst

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque Three Poems Her Lips burning of subdued embers, Her words brand you, inescapable. Eyes as old as amber, Her gaze tells your story, unwritten. Masked by the mud of her mother, Her power precedes her, enthralling. Rokkr Náttar, shadow of the oncoming night, She destroys me, inescapable love. Purified Asphyxiation… Nova Longhurst weiterlesen

Roger Dean / Greg White / Hazel Smith

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque The Blue Bus (written for The Blue Bus experimental poetry reading series in London) there are days when no one knows where the blue bus is but there are always times when you know it will arrive out of the blue then you are riding amongst colours only, gone with the… Roger Dean / Greg White / Hazel Smith weiterlesen

Justin Clemens

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque I wish I didn’t wish I wasn’t dead: a madrigal Me n me trumpet are lying in a nest of bedding watching Our Premmy Minotaur Like a sweating tub o rot n putrescence fester under hoof lights in clusters of roach eggs O pestilent importuning gibberish! O necrotic bovine abomination!… Justin Clemens weiterlesen

Bev Braune

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque Introduction Poets were asked to think form, counter-form, refrain, cacophony, celebration, protest in an invitation to submit a series of poems of many voices set in their own or a borrowed matrix based strictly or vaguely on the Madrigal, that short lyrical poem that Italian composer Francesco Landini was so gifted… Bev Braune weiterlesen

Jordie Albiston

Lit-Mag #46 – Madrigalesque The plane angle poems 5/52 five years old with the smile & the special fifty-two years with the miracle grin & the little & the place & the warm & everything is fine ticketty-boo when someday soon is huger than never when someday never came a day too soon time in… Jordie Albiston weiterlesen