rabbitpoetry

This issue includes:

**new poems by Michael Brennan, Anne M. Carson, Matt Hall, Susan Hawthorne, Patrick Jones, Julie Maclean, Mark O’Flynn, Pete Spence and more**

** an essay by Bonny Cassidy **

** an interview with, and new works by, American poet/ artist/critic Johanna Drucker **

RABBIT will be launched alongside three other new publications:

* thou sand by Michael Farrell (Tinfish Press, 2011)

* birdlife: poetry, writing and visual art (Lethologica, 2011)

* marionette: notes toward the life and times of miss marion davies by Jessica L. Wilkinson (Vagabond, 2012)

When:       Friday 27^th January, 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Where:     Bella Union (Upstairs, Trades Hall) Cnr. Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton.

Come along for a night of readings and rabbiting on!

We are pleased to announce that one-year subscriptions to Rabbit Poetry Journal are now available through the ‘subscriptions’ panel on this website.  Subscriptions are $60 (within Australia) and $70 (International) per year. These prices include 4 issues with postage as well as a small ‘subscribers only’ gift. Subscribers will also be issued a confirmation card through email which can be printed or forwarded to a recipient if bought as a gift.

Download the Ratio National interview with Rabbit editor Jessica Wilkinson here: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/12/bsw_20111206_1005.mp3

Rabbit editor Jessica Wilkinson will be interviewed on ABC Radio National’s ‘The Book Show’ at 10am on Tuesday December 6. Jessica will be discussing all things Rabbit, including the upcoming visual issue (Rabbit #3). Tune in online at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ or wait until we upload the interview on the Rabbit blog. For a list of Radio National frequencies (within Australia) see: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/frequency/

Fellow rabbit Michael Farrell wrote a review of Rabbit for Jacket2. About time we included a link to the review on our blog:

http://jacket2.org/commentary/magazines-3

If you write poetry and maintain a blog, let us know for, if your blog is relevant to Rabbit, we’d like to include it as a link. Send proposals to: rabbitpoetry@hotmail.com

Join fellow rabbits for the launch of Rabbit # 2 @ The Alderman, Upstairs, 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East on Wednesday 26^th October, 630pm. There will be readings by Allison Browning, Mark Prendergast, Michael Farrell, Zoe Dzunko, Ann Vickery, and a music/poetry performance by Patrick Jones and Anthony Petrucci (Souls on Board). Copies of the new Rabbit will be available for purchase!