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Amy May Nunn On The Poetry Of Exploration And Petrified Bones
Amy May Nunn I wanted to be an explorer. For a long time I had a clear plan, that I would become an Archeologist, escape my family and their art. I would discover tombs and not art. Ocean divers and...
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Eloise Healy: Three Things This Editor Thinks About
Eloise Healy 1) The hardest thing about being an editor at Arktoi Books is saying “no” all the time. Howard Junker, founder of Zyzzyva magazine, told me, “Think about it—you say ‘yes’ once and ‘no’ a...
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Autumn Royal: The Badness of Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter Dorothy Porter’s poetics affirm the extremities of my corporal existence. I cannot escape my body but I can read Porter’s lyrics and become intimate with the pulsations, aches and fluids...
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Benjamin Solah: Queer Poetry in Melbourne Poetry Scene
Benjamin Solah. The first poem I ever read live was a poem about homophobia. It was originally titled ‘The Homophobe’ and with a push from Santo Cazzati, I read it in front of a bunch of complete...
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Pride Week: Chloe Brien
Kicking off Pride Week 2013 with a beautiful piece of poetry from Chloe Brien. This piece shows us how to see, how to fall head first into a disaster, into love and then learn how to walk without a...
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Pride Week: T. J. Garcia On Being Queer and Writing About Everything Else
While I was in university studying for my BA, I took an introductory class on the LGBT movement, which covered about 115 years of history over the course of four weeks. When, about halfway through the...
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Pride Week: ReVerse Butcher Features Collage Poetry
THE REVENGE – ReVerse Butcher (2012) ReVerse Butcher’s collage poetry style is one that hybridizes cut-up theory, erasure poetry, plundergraphic theory and other experimental writing techniques such as...
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Pride Week: ReVerse Butcher on Sticking To Your Subjectives
Today we feature a spoken word performance excerpt by ReVerse Butcher during her feature poet set at the Dan O’Connell (Melbourne, Australia) poetry reading on 11th of May 2013. The poem, STICK TO YOUR...
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Pride Week: Emma Haller
Featured today is cool-cat Emma Haller and her poem, DRIFTING. Below we have a conversation about poetry and how sexuality inspires Haller’s poetry. Here at Metre Maids love having discussions...
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Pride Week: Fury’s Top 5 Poets
To round off the Metre Maid’s celebration of all things PRIDE & all things POETIC, the amazingly talented and charming FURY gives us a delicious eye-feast that is her TOP 5 FAV POETS. So all you...
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