Call for poetry submissions: Rabbit 40: The Extinction Issue

Rabbit is currently accepting submissions for Issue 40: the EXTINCTION Issue, to be guest co-edited by Elena Gomez and AJ Carruthers.

The sixth mass extinction bears the marks of centuries of capitalist accumulation. While the science of climate catastrophe is well documented and broadly accepted, ways of preventing extinction are far from settled. Poetry has engaged with the destructive nature of capitalism and imperial expansion since early English industrialisation, and contemporary poetry confronts these questions with aesthetic curiosity and force. If it feels impossible to imagine a future, poetry offers itself as a site to do just that.

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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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Rabbit Homework with Jane Hirshfield
Rabbit Homework with Jane Hirshfield

‘A poem that draws on the sciences may sometimes start with a thought or subject far from science—but science then offers the image, metaphor, naming vocabulary that opens a door that poem needed to find.’

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Amelia Dale interviews Astrid Lorange
Amelia Dale interviews Astrid Lorange

‘We say ‘when this is all over’ as a way of fantasising about certain things: touching people, wandering the streets, lying in the sun. But we know that there’s nothing to return to, that is, there is only something different ahead, something yet to be realised, something to hope for and build towards.’

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Forum Q&A: Cassandra Atherton responds
Forum Q&A: Cassandra Atherton responds

‘The prose poem’s disruption of linearity and closure, means it’s a form that is always in the process of becoming; it is always rejecting the scripts of hegemonic and social convention.’

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Forum Q&A: David Stavanger responds
Forum Q&A: David Stavanger responds

‘I don't subscribe to poetry as a remedy, no more than I do the pills in my bathroom drawer. They're part of the spectrum of things that equal tomorrow, and the day after that.’

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Forum Q&A: Alvin Pang responds
Forum Q&A: Alvin Pang responds

‘So there is a time for laughter and camaraderie and connection, and there is a time where that immediacy just isn't available—and the distance, sobriety and grief becomes part of what is conveyed, including the irony of, say, trying to read an energetic, humorous poem in a setting or in a tone that doesn't lend itself to that levity.’

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Rabbit Homework with Alvin Pang
Rabbit Homework with Alvin Pang

The word ‘lineage’ derives from the Latin linea, meaning a line. It is an account of how things are related in an iterated sequence—describing, for instance, how particular ancestors give rise to descendants in a family tree, or how a species evolves over time from one form to the next, or how ideas have developed over time by being taken up and advanced by one thinker after another.’

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