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Rabbit is currently accepting submissions for Issue 39: the MUTINY Issue, to be guest co-edited by Jennifer Compton and Joan Fleming.

When you don’t trust the captains, it’s time to take back the ship.

For Rabbit: MUTINY, we seek rogue poems that resist the usual rules of resistance. We’re after nonfiction poems, in all aesthetic registers, that scorn the tyranny of planned obsolescence, false idolatry, rabid anthropocentrism, bad governance, and the logic of the market above all else. Send us your long-sighted, large-hearted, reverent/irreverent calls to arms.  Any increment of subversion or transgression, down to and including dumb insolence, is eagerly solicited for this issue. Now is not the time to be a civic coward.

We invite poets to send up to 3 poems in one document through Rabbit’s Submittable site. Please include in the cover letter of your submission:

• full contact details (postal address, email)

• 50-word max. bio

• a short (50-word max.) response to the following: "Name a poem or a work that refuses to obey orders, that incites rebellion, or that questions the validity of authority, and why it gets you."

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT Thursday 29th February 2024

About the guest editors:

Jennifer Compton lives in Melbourne on unceded Boon Wurrung Country. In 2013 her poem ‘Now You Shall Know’ won the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She very much appreciates being given the big cheque but she also relishes the hurly burly of the open mic. Recent Work Press published her 11th book of poetry the moment, taken in 2021.

Award-winning poet Joan Fleming is the author of the collections The Same as Yes and Failed Love Poems (THWUP), and the post-collapse verse novel Song of Less (Cordite Books). She works as a lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, and writes about staying awake on the precipice.

RABBIT is a journal of nonfiction poetry. If you are concerned that your take on the ‘real world’ is slightly abstract, don’t worry–include a line or two to tell us why you categorise your poem as ‘nonfiction.’ We are very much open to poetry experiments! Please note that we do not accept previously published poems; simultaneous submissions are fine (provided you let us know immediately if your poems have been accepted elsewhere).

RABBIT also publishes book reviews, essays interviews with poets and visual artworks by poets. The editors regularly solicit this material, but are open to expressions of interest. Please see the website at rabbitpoetry.com.

 
 
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BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews for Rabbit are solicited and managed by our Reviews Editor, though we encourage expressions of interest for future reviews to be emailed to Jessica Wilkinson. Please include a brief summary of your background and reviewing experience and if you have a particular Australian new release in mind for review. 

We also provide the space for longer review pieces discussing multiple titles, as many of our major publishers release multiple titles at once. The structure of these will be negotiated between the reviewers and the reviews editor, but they will follow a more traditional reviewing framework. 

ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS 

Essays and Interviews for Rabbit are solicited and managed by the Essays Editor (AJ Carruthers) and Interviews Editor (Amelia Dale) respectively. These provide a showcase for discussions of research, poetics and practice that directly relate to nonfiction poetry. We encourage experimental engagements. We welcome essay and interview pitches to our Managing Editor, Jessica Wilkinson.

 NB. We are able to pay all Australian contributors. International contributors receive copies of the journal. 

 
CURRENT CALLS
Call for Submissions for Issue 39: The MUTINY Issue

Rabbit is currently accepting poetry submissions for Issue 39: the MUTINY Issue, to be guest co-edited by Jennifer Compton and Joan Fleming.

When you don’t trust the captains, it’s time to take back the ship. For Rabbit: MUTINY, we seek rogue poems that resist the usual rules of resistance. We’re after nonfiction poems, in all aesthetic registers, that scorn the tyranny of planned obsolescence, false idolatry, rabid anthropocentrism, bad governance, and the logic of the market above all else. Send us your long-sighted, large-hearted, reverent/irreverent calls to arms.

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Call for Submissions for Issue 38: The ARCHIVE Issue

Rabbit is currently accepting poetry submissions for Issue 38: the ARCHIVE Issue, to be guest co-edited by Anne Casey and Jason Wee. How can we, as poets, return to the archive and reanimate voices and lives silenced through time and the resolve of official record-makers? How else might we think of, approach and (re)imagine archives, as cosmologies, as expansive structures for comprehending larger, wider dimensions, like the past, time, universes? For this issue, we are interested in poems that explore, engage with, test and challenge 'the archive' as place, space, repository and/or concept.

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