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Featured Artist Issue 29: Jessica Tobin

• Featured Artist: Jessica Tobin. Biographical note and artist statement 

Reviews

• Dance, film, poetry: Sarah St Vincent Welch reviews text messages from the universe
• The magical and surreal: Colin Dardis reviews (Un)belonging by Nathanael O’Reilly
• From whence we derive our strength: Devika Brendon reviews Mountain Secrets— edited by Joan Fenney
• The marrow of individual experience and disrupted heritage: Malcolm St Hill reviews sing out when you want me by Kerri Shying
• Listen, bitch: Melinda Smith and Caren Florance shout it’s time to turn the volume down on misogynistic language. Reviewed by Natalie D-Napoleon
• Reaching inside you: Ali Whitelock reviews Case Notes by David Stavanger
• One hundred and eighty degree turns: John Bartlett reviews Family Trees by Michael Farrell
• Passion and Elegance: John Foulcher reviews Mosaics from the Map & Under this Saffron Sun / Safran Gunesin Alinda

Poetry

• Andrew Burke: Five Poems
• Robbie Coburn: Six Poems
• Heather Taylor Johnson: Three Poems
• Susan Millar DuMars: Six Poems
• Michael Witts: Three Poems

Video Poems

• ‘Kinaesthetic Grace’: A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Routine of Space’: A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Shelter’: A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Making Lace’ A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Synonymous with Strength’ – A video poem by Stephen James Smith & Elma Orkestra

Launches

• Fresh & poetic: Richard Regan and Leanne Searle launch The Last Asbestos Town by Helen Hagemann
• Jill Jones Memes for Disaffected Teens or Introducing Aidan Coleman’s Introduction to Jill Jones’ collection A History of What I’ll Become.
• A poet to hail and to treasure: Peter Holland launches New and Selected by Andrew Burke
• Virtual Launch: Rebecca Kylie Law talks about Pan’s Dance: New and Selected Poems
• A connection to the landscape: Richard James Allen launches Sandpaper Swimming – Going After Burke & Wills by George Watt

Articles

• DODO Magazine: A history by Michael Witts

Obituary

• Vale Walter Billeter
• Vale: Ania Walwicz