brief 50 (2014)

[Cover design: Brett Cross / Cover photography: NZ Herald (26/3/87)]

brief 50 (February 2014). ISSN 1175-9313. 160 pp.

Anne Ross: Nikita

Contents:

Jack Ross / Editorial: Misha's Project / 3

Tracey Slaughter / 31 reasons not to hear a heartbeat / 6

Bronwyn Lloyd / from A Slow Alphabet / 21

Keith Nunes / Harry’s wife – The Cold Up Here / 31

Ted Jenner / from Lonely Hearts / 33

Janet Newman / Skywreck / 38

Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle / from Autobiography of a Marguerite / 39

Laura McLauchlan / Cow / 42

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán / Mint – Post / 43

Iain Britton / ezra pound in parenthesis / 53

Doc Drumheller / from 10 x (10 + -10) = 0 / 56

Kristy Lagarto / Blank Slate / 59

Richard Taylor / The Secret of Being Unpopular / 61

Nick Monks / Postcard from Wigan, (Lancashire, UK) / 74

K. M. Ross / from The Blinding Walk / 75

Josh Goodwin / from tararu cemetery / 94

Naomi Richards / Paper-chase / 96

Lisa Samuels / Syllabus / 101

L. E. Scott / Blues x 5 – Room without a View / 105

Vaughan Rapatahana / nihil unbound / 108

Anne Ross / Christmas Card / 109

Richard von Sturmer / This Explains Everything / 110

David Taylor / All things being equal / 120

Tracey Slaughter / The Box of Phantoms / 122

REVIEWS

Ted Jenner: Heraclitus Pseudoscientificus?: Review of Futa Helu, Herakleitos of Ephesos, ’Atenisi University, Tonga, 2nd (facsimile) edition, 2012. / 138-47

Vaughan Rapatahana: Review of Waiheathens by Mark Derby, with paintings by Bob Kerr (Atuanui Press, Aotearoa-New Zealand, 2012) / 148-51

Jack Ross / Books in brief / 152-56:

• Lisa Samuels, Wild Dialectics (Bristol: Shearsman Books Ltd., 2012)
• Richard von Sturmer, Book of Equanimity Verses (Auckland: Puriri Press, 2013)

CONTRIBUTOR NOTES / 157-60

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Jack Ross: Opinions

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