Solid air : Australian and New Zealand spoken word / edited by David Stavanger & Anne-Marie Te Whiu.

A ground-breaking and original collection that celebrates Australia and New Zealand's leading performance poets, direct from stage to page. Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian and New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, thes...

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Other Authors: Stavanger, David (Editor), Te Whiu, Anne-Marie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Editor Biographies; Title page; Imprint Page; Contents; Foreword: ALISON WHITTAKER; Introduction: DAVID STAVANGER AND ANNE-MARIE TE WHIU; HANI ABDILE: The beautiful ocean; JESSICA ALICE: Landmarks; EUNICE ANDRADA: (Because I am a daughter) of diaspora; EVELYN ARALUEN: Fern your own gully; KEN ARKIND: Godbox; TUSIATA AVIA: Three reasons for sleeping with a white man; MARYAM AZAM: A brief guide to hijab fashion; HINEMOANA BAKER: If I had to sing; COURTNEY BARNETT: Depreston; THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER: In my day (Nan); HERA LINDSAY BIRD: Children are the orgasm of the world
  • AMY BODOSSIAN: My housemate's girlfriendBEHROUZ BOOCHANI: Forgive me my love; C.J. BOWERBIRD: To the flight attendant on QF11 to LA; ALLAN BOYD (AKA THE ANTIPOET): fly in fly out fly in fly out; JAKOB BOYD (AKA LAUNDRY MAN): Employment separation certificate; JESSE JOHN BRAND: Dear Mrs Miller; BEN BROWN: Moko; EDDY BURGER: My VICES; PASCALLE BURTON: What is your ceiling?; RHYAN CLAPHAM (AKA DOBBY): Maury Wiseman; JOHN CLARKE: Sigrid Sassoon: The Prime Minister; MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE: gil scott-heron is on parole; CLAIRE G. COLEMAN: I am the road; JENNIFER COMPTON: Love is not love
  • ARIELLE COTTINGHAM: TramlinesDAMIAN COWELL: I took my girl to see Eraserhead; EMILY CROCKER: Spooks; NATHAN CURNOW: Corpse fete; KORALY DIMITRIADIS: My wedding dress; TUG DUMBLY: My country; QUINN EADES: What it's really like to grow up with lesbians in the 70s and 80s; ALICE EATHER: Yúya karrabúra (Fire is burning); ALI COBBY ECKERMANN: Circles & Squares; DAVID EGGLETON: Taranaki bitter; LORIN ELIZABETH: Leaves; TIM EVANS: Poem, interrupted; GABRIELLE EVERALL: Vita means life; BELA FARKAS: Brushing with Tom; JAYNE FENTON KEANE: Murmuration; LIONEL FOGARTY: SCENIC MAPS PARTS
  • BENJAMIN FRATER: To kill the Prime MinisterZENOBIA FROST: Reality on-demand; FURY: when they legalise gay marriage; ANDREW GALAN: Art, industry, architecture & pets; IAN GIBBINS: dog daze; ANAHERA GILDEA: Sedition
  • a letter to the writer from Meri Mangakāhia; MADDIE GODFREY: Labels are for jars; HADLEY: Brookside bramble; DAVID HALLETT: Stuff; JORDAN HAMEL: Ham and cheese toasties; MOHAMED HASSAN: Customs: a love story; KELLY LEE HICKEY: How to stay afloat; DOMINIC HOEY: Hotel room; ELEANOR JACKSON: When women go to war; JOELISTICS: Nostromo; TERI LOUISE KELLY: Girls like me
  • ZOHAB ZEE KHAN: MosqueSIMON KINDT: One little lonely moment on the train from Brisbane to the coast, and just like that; LANIYUK: Finger on the map; KLARE LANSON: #commute; DAISY LAVEA-TIMO: Whakamana; MICHELLE LAW: The wheel; LUKA LESSON: Yiayia; L-FRESH THE LION: The LION Speaks; ELEANOR MALBON: Somehow fragile; SARA MANSOUR: My Australia; SELINA TUSITALA MARSH: Pussy cat; LAURIE MAY: Houso kid; IAN McBRYDE: Spree; LAURA JEAN McKAY: Val Plumwood canoe; COURTNEY SINA MEREDITH: No motorbikes, no golf; MILES MERRILL: Night's knows; MISBAH: Rooftops in Karachi