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Snapshots
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The canal swallows the viewer's horror CARNIVAL Strutting past the vendors of lottery tickets 'the boys' can only guess at what is kept, at what is lost inside mothers with crumbled stucco faces. If a door is left carelessly ajar, they are anonymous when they enter. When they check out they check out the beach: that gap between the legs of the red bikini resembling a hypen - it connects yet separates say, the words 'hermit ' and 'crab' ; 'shell ' still presents this difficulty, it does not encompass the world. David Howard Carols, 2003, Melbourne Poetryetc is a listserv relating to poetry and poetics which provides a forum for poets to debate their critical and creative work. The list has over the years run a number of projects for its members, of which Snapshots has been the most enduring. Every Wednesday, Poetryetc members were invited to post short poems on any subject or in any form they chose. The idea was to make a poetic collage of instamatic “snaps” of that day that reflected the international membership of the list. The project has generated an astounding number of poems. The first two runs, of six weeks each, and the first ten weeks of the third run, are archived at Wild Honey Press www.wildhoneypress.com under Poetryetc Project. The rest - amounting in all to a run of a year - are archived here. Poetryetc, like its affiliate Salt Publishing (http://www.saltpublishing.com), was founded by Australian poet John Kinsella. Salt is managed by Christopher Hamilton-Emery (cemery@saltpublishing.com), while Poetryetc is owned by Alison Croggon (ajcroggon@bigpond.com). Poetryetc is now archived at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/poetryetc.html. and anyone interested can join from that url. To contact the listowner: Alison Croggon These pages are designed, maintained, and hosted by Rebecca Seiferle, the Editor of The Drunken Boat. To email. 
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