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JR Moores surveys the latest psych and noise-rock releases, pines for the CD-R format and wonders what comes after perfection

Karen and Alister Lepard had floodwaters sweep through their property on Cabbage Tree Lane on April 6.

This is no trickery: the pleasure of an optical illusion is in illumination, proliferation. In these dexterous (at times, ambidextrous) poems, fog is not disorientation, for the book’s title is subject-predicate more than adjective-noun: fog notes, draws attention, sketches—mementos to the self, tasting notes, half-caught snatches of music.

Granta's most-read poetry in 2023, featuring work by Seán Hewitt, Mary Jean Chan and Bebe Ashley.

New fiction, poetry, and nonfiction book titles from small, independent, and university presses received at NewPages.com. Great reading!

New fiction, poetry, and nonfiction book titles from small, independent, and university presses received at NewPages.com. Great reading!

The US-based Kolkata boy on his twin identities, working with Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, his magnum opus on mesh and more

When Swift ushers listeners through that door in the first line, the listener steps toward a perpetual present, time fractured by emotional trauma, a place where the overness of past love is never truly over, “’cause,” as the chorus begins, “there we are again.”

“I feel truer to myself while reading than I do experiencing the world through my body — so any chance to read is ideal for me.”

What do you get when you flood your body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals? This week during The Write Question, CAConrad, author of ‘AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration,’ talks with Lauren about their writing processes: the (soma)tic poetry rituals that result in poetry that shimmers, surprises, and sears.