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Interviews

Review/Interview with Kris Saknussemm

published by Retort Magazine, on April 1st, 2006

In January I met with ZANESVILLE author Kris Saknussemm outside Readings Bookstore on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne, Australia. I have been a heavy user of the Internet for about 11 years now and I have met hundreds of people online. Kris is the first person I actually had the courage to meet . . . → Read More: Review/Interview with Kris Saknussemm

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Poetry

Poetry by Ian McBryde

published by Retort Magazine, on February 19th, 2006

Vessel

“In our weariness, tears cannot find their way out of us”  ~ Andy Jackson I am flesh wrapped around all things unwept, I am salt water, brim-filled. No weary gulls any longer

land on me to rest, even briefly. This reservoir has no outlet, no closing shore. An eternal twilight

greys the waves, awaiting . . . → Read More: Poetry by Ian McBryde

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Poetry

Poetry by Steve Kilbey

published by Retort Magazine, on January 19th, 2006

poem about a poem

i read this beautiful poem
it used words like absolute and redolent
it spoke of the glory of the spirit
it described the dark arc of human evil
some bits meandered through forests
of delicious adjectives
other parts were short. concise.
the poem began with a volley of the
most amazing hyperbole ever
broken …up…fragments
vainglorious latinate flourishes
anglo saxon starts and ends

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Art

Art, Truth & Politics by Harold Pinter

published by Retort Magazine, on December 23rd, 2005

Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2005

Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics

In 1958 I wrote the following:

‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true . . . → Read More: Art, Truth & Politics by Harold Pinter

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Experimental

Spiralworld by Kenji Siatori

published by Retort Magazine, on October 17th, 2005

Switch***annihilation that the love of road plays the retina of the fatalities to the mystery that makes a tour with the original form indistinct region that is filled Inhabitant++synapse of the discovery one arm darkness material internal organ that savage neon cut off radiate heat_osmosing was torn causes to perplexed my life at the . . . → Read More: Spiralworld by Kenji Siatori

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