RABBIT 30 – The Long Poem (II)

RABBIT 30 – The Long Poem (II)

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As we release our 30th issue, what would ordinarily be an exciting milestone in Rabbit’s timeline, the world is experiencing unprecedented suffering.

Here in Australia, we recently endured a long and devastating bushfire season that burnt through 18.6 million hectares of land, killing 34 people (with further deaths due to the effects of smoke inhalation) and an estimated 1.3 billion animals, some of which were endangered species now driven to extinction. At the tail-end of this loss, the coronavirus began to spread globally. As I write this editorial, Australia joins many other countries enforcing strict social distancing measures and lockdowns. If you are reading this, you and/or your friends and colleagues in the arts will be suffering the effects of cancelled shows, events, launches, some of which provide vital income. We are compiling this issue as we await some better news for 2020 and beyond, and yet it is heartening to see communities rallying on screens for ‘relocated’ events and readings. Indeed, a highlight of scrolling through my own Facebook feed is seeing friends sharing their postal bounty of newly purchased books. Let’s continue, through these tough months, to support one another’s practice in this way.

I was delighted to receive close to 500 long poems for this issue. My reading pile was large, but I truly enjoyed reading each submission and spending time with the extended meditations on an idea that the longer form affords.

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Rabbit 30 Editorial — Jessica L. Wilkinson

Artist Statement— Gabby Malpas

Rabbit Interviews
Jessica L. Wilkinson interviews Lisa Gorton

Rabbit Essay
A Photographic Essay — Ian McBryde and Nicholas Walton-Healey

Rabbit Reviews
Rosalind Moran reviews Eloise Grills’ Sexy Female Murderesses
Short reviews by Sally Evans

Ask a Rabbit: What is your favourite long nonfiction poem?

Rabbit Homework with Geoff Page

Poems
On Dragons – Adam Aitken
The National Baby (Or, Summer of 2018: The K-Road Karaoke Remix) — Evangeline Riddiford Graham
embodied — Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Silence (in three parts) — Maddie Godfrey
Ismene in a Twelve Step Programme — Claire Gaskin
One of these scenes is not real — Anna Jacobson
Self Portrait As Fibonacci Sequence — Jennifer Sutherland
Church of — Lou Garcia-Dolnik
Silences — Anders Villani
long division — Connor Weightman
from Television — Kate Middleton
Anamnesis — Stuart Cooke
Idiosyncratic Attachments — Amelia Williams
Green Beings (and doing them) — Jake Goetz
Apocalypse, then (and now, carbon lullabies) — Mykaela Saunders
‘On Visiting Elizabeth in the Western Australian Wheatbelt Mary Sings a Song’ — Anne Elvey
Railroad to Destiny — Spencer Chang
A Politics of Naming: A Zuihitsu — Cassandra Atherton
At Belsen — Emilie Collyer
At the Altar of Touch — Gavin Yuan Gao
raised on: — Henry Briffa
Chameleons Under the House — Joel Ephraims
Home, Away — Paul Hetherington
Southing to Antarctica, December 1914 — Marion Starling Boyer
Visitations by Laudanum — Kimberly Miller
Incendiary: A folio of George Sand smoking poems, and one for Anne M — Anne M. Carson
Furniture Music — Mark O’Flynn
C (note) — Stuart Barnes
from The Pound Suite — John A. Scott
Chapter 6 from The Or Tree: An Autobiography — Toby Fitch
Loud in Browsers — Liam Ferney
diving — Ella Skilbeck-Porter
Pool Sweet, 2019. Ink on Paper. — Jarad Bruinstroop
Seventh seal — Ania Walwicz