Explore themes of modern culture, identity, and resistance through the unique perspectives of these diverse artists. From Ali Cobby Eckermann to Courtney Barnett, discover the poets who are shaping the cultural landscape of Australia and New Zealand. Solid Air is a must-read for poetry lovers, students of literature, and anyone seeking a fresh and engaging voice in contemporary art.
- 272 pages
- English
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Experience the raw energy of Australian and New Zealand spoken word.
Solid Air captures the vibrant voices of over 100 performance poets, transporting their powerful words from the stage to the page. This groundbreaking anthology blends slam, hip-hop, and experimental styles, offering a literary experience that is both thought-provoking and electrifying.
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- Cover
- Editor Biographies
- Title page
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Foreword: ALISON WHITTAKER
- Introduction: DAVID STAVANGER AND ANNE-MARIE TE WHIU
- HANI ABDILE: The beautiful ocean
- JESSICA ALICE: Landmarks
- EUNICE ANDRADA: (Because I am a daughter) of diaspora
- EVELYN ARALUEN: Fern your own gully
- KEN ARKIND: Godbox
- TUSIATA AVIA: Three reasons for sleeping with a white man
- MARYAM AZAM: A brief guide to hijab fashion
- HINEMOANA BAKER: If I had to sing
- COURTNEY BARNETT: Depreston
- THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER: In my day (Nan)
- HERA LINDSAY BIRD: Children are the orgasm of the world
- AMY BODOSSIAN: My housemate’s girlfriend
- BEHROUZ BOOCHANI: Forgive me my love
- C.J. BOWERBIRD: To the flight attendant on QF11 to LA
- ALLAN BOYD (AKA THE ANTIPOET): fly in fly out fly in fly out
- JAKOB BOYD (AKA LAUNDRY MAN): Employment separation certificate
- JESSE JOHN BRAND: Dear Mrs Miller
- BEN BROWN: Moko
- EDDY BURGER: My VICES
- PASCALLE BURTON: What is your ceiling?
- RHYAN CLAPHAM (AKA DOBBY): Maury Wiseman
- JOHN CLARKE: Sigrid Sassoon: The Prime Minister
- MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE: gil scott-heron is on parole
- CLAIRE G. COLEMAN: I am the road
- JENNIFER COMPTON: Love is not love
- ARIELLE COTTINGHAM: Tramlines
- DAMIAN COWELL: I took my girl to see Eraserhead
- EMILY CROCKER: Spooks
- NATHAN CURNOW: Corpse fete
- KORALY DIMITRIADIS: My wedding dress
- TUG DUMBLY: My country
- QUINN EADES: What it’s really like to grow up with lesbians in the 70s and 80s
- ALICE EATHER: Yúya karrabúra (Fire is burning)
- ALI COBBY ECKERMANN: Circles & Squares
- DAVID EGGLETON: Taranaki bitter
- LORIN ELIZABETH: Leaves
- TIM EVANS: Poem, interrupted
- GABRIELLE EVERALL: Vita means life
- BELA FARKAS: Brushing with Tom
- JAYNE FENTON KEANE: Murmuration
- LIONEL FOGARTY: SCENIC MAPS PARTS
- BENJAMIN FRATER: To kill the Prime Minister
- ZENOBIA FROST: Reality on-demand
- FURY: when they legalise gay marriage
- ANDREW GALAN: Art, industry, architecture & pets
- IAN GIBBINS: dog daze
- ANAHERA GILDEA: Sedition – a letter to the writer from Meri Mangakāhia
- MADDIE GODFREY: Labels are for jars
- HADLEY: Brookside bramble
- DAVID HALLETT: Stuff
- JORDAN HAMEL: Ham and cheese toasties
- MOHAMED HASSAN: Customs: a love story
- KELLY LEE HICKEY: How to stay afloat
- DOMINIC HOEY: Hotel room
- ELEANOR JACKSON: When women go to war
- JOELISTICS: Nostromo
- TERI LOUISE KELLY: Girls like me
- ZOHAB ZEE KHAN: Mosque
- SIMON KINDT: One little lonely moment on the train from Brisbane to the coast, and just like that
- LANIYUK: Finger on the map
- KLARE LANSON: #commute
- DAISY LAVEA-TIMO: Whakamana
- MICHELLE LAW: The wheel
- LUKA LESSON: Yiayia
- L-FRESH THE LION: The LION Speaks
- ELEANOR MALBON: Somehow fragile
- SARA MANSOUR: My Australia
- SELINA TUSITALA MARSH: Pussy cat
- LAURIE MAY: Houso kid
- IAN McBRYDE: Spree
- LAURA JEAN McKAY: Val Plumwood canoe
- COURTNEY SINA MEREDITH: No motorbikes, no golf
- MILES MERRILL: Night’s knows
- MISBAH: Rooftops in Karachi
- SCOTT-PATRICK MITCHELL: types of men
- MORGANICS: Hipster killer
- LORNA MUNRO: Untitled
- MELANIE MUNUNGGURR-WILLIAMS: I run …
- OMAR MUSA: The boys
- ANISA NANDAULA: Human
- NGĀ HINEPŪKŌRERO: Moe mai rā
- STEVEN OLIVER: You can’t be black
- JESSE OLIVER: 20 questions
- SEAN O’CALLAGHAN: You see more on foot
- ANGELA PEITA: Ways to draw blood from feathers
- KIRI PIAHANA-WONG: Of books and bookcases
- Π.O.: Memo
- TE KAHU ROLLESTON: Te Rarangatira
- TESSA ROSE: Sean, Shawn, Shorn, Shaun: these I have known
- CANDY ROYALLE: Impermanent
- MAX RYAN: Old guys
- OMAR SAKR: How to live in a world that is burning
- SARA SALEH: InshaAllah
- BEN SALTER: No security blues
- RAY SHIPLEY: The Catholic-Mobile
- STEVE SMART: W.O.W.
- AMANDA STEWART: postiche
- GRACE TAYLOR: Tinā (Mother)
- SANDRA THIBODEAUX: An early survey of principles
- TAYI TIBBLE: Assimilation
- MERLYNN TONG: Moonface and me
- SABA VASEFI: Student day
- صبا واصفی: شانزده آذر
- SAM WAGAN WATSON: When pencils sing excuses
- TAIKA WAITITI & EMILY BEAUTRAIS: Give nothing
- ANIA WALWICZ: doctor proctor
- wāni: On all the things I am still learning to name
- JAHRA ‘RAGER’ WASASALA: This is how we burn the endless woman (an excerpt)
- TEILA WATSON (AKA ANCESTRESS): War
- UNCLE HERB WHARTON: Tracks
- SEAN M. WHELAN: You probably think this poem is about you (and it probably is)
- PHILIP WILCOX: this microphone only tells the truth
- SCOTT WINGS: THIS IS MY MAXIMALIST POEM ABOUT MYSOGYNY
- TROY WONG: The pigeon is a Big Man
- LUKE WREN REID: Box
- QUAN YEOMANS: I get the internet
- EMILIE ZOEY BAKER: Hey, Mary Shelley
- MOHSEN SOLTANY ZAND: Realpolitik
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
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