Contents

Rabbit 40 Editorial — Jessica L. Wilkinson
Artist Statement — Josh Dykgraaf

Nonfiction Poetry: Extinction
Poetry Editorial — Elena Gomez and aj carruthers

Rabbit Interviews
Amelia Dale interviews Holly Isemonger
Amelia Dale interviews Stuart Barnes

Rabbit Essays
Love at the crack — Francesca Rendle-Short
from Addictionary: Poessays — Javant Biarujia

Rabbit Reviews
Grace Roodenrys reviews Kate Fagan's Song in the Grass

Ask a Rabbit
What is the role of the poem in an era of decline?

Rabbit Homework
With Bonny Cassidy

Poems
Annotations on Colour — Jayant Kashyap
On Heaven — Daniel Chan Yee Ann
Moor — Ruby Lawrence
Swamp cancer — Sophia Hyland-Wolzak
Quanta — Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
lit-phosphorus — Micaela Kaibni Raen
When the mountains call — Nishtha Tewari
Thylacine Song — Toby Fitch
This Time-light Shimmering — Anthony Nusirihan
the arborescent — Xiaoran Shi
Storm. Passed. — Esha Kaur Tiwana
Right to Go, Misnomer? — Nicholas Powell
Lasiorhinus latifrons — Sarah Pearce
Heritage — Margaret Bradstock
O small moon — Elias Greig
Birthplace — David Ishaya Osu
Angelus Novus — Jenifer Hetherington
Girl Meets Dog — Tess Ritchie
River — Joseph Jude
Megachasma pelagios — August Moulang
oyster — Maya Weeks
dungeness crab — Maya Weeks
"The Use and Abuse of History": A Synopsis — Elnura Huseynova
Flood Myth — Gurmeet Kaur
welcome to all this — Rae White

First Nations Poetry: Extinction
Curated by Jeanine Leane

Dhuminbil Yuriwawi: Poison Waterholes — Jessika Spencer
Invasive Species — Liana Fowler
In the blood — Michelle Hyde
Gone — Lisa Fuller
It's Gone! — Joyce Graham
Still Here — Samantha Faulkner
Annihilation — Marissa McDowell