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'Edgar’s poetry is like that – detailed, deceptive, minutely crafted, significant and changing – implicating both the watcher and the watched. In Sarah Howe’s ‘Two Systems’ lecture at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute last year, speaking of her own poetry’s slippage between different cultural and historical referents, she cited Heather McHugh’s dictum ‘All poetry is fragment … shaped by its breakages at every turn.’ Edgar’s is like that too: shardish, provisional, ‘hispid’ (to poach one of his clever, obscure words).' (Introduction)

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Epigraph: ‘… the sinople eye of a butterfly wing …’ Sarah Howe

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y Mascara Literary Review #UNFUNDED no. 20 April 2017 11131909 2017 periodical issue Abstract
'I’m very pleased that #UNFUNDED Issue 20 has arrived to celebrate a decade of Mascara.
'My thanks to all our contributors to the journal and to our editors, especially Jo Langdon and our intern, Zachary Ward.
'We remain grateful to the Australia Council and to the writing community for their strong support, past and present in social media and for our activism.
We are seeing new literary journals such as The Suburban Review, Pencilled-In and platforms such as Feminartsy emerge to support writers in the margins, suggesting the continuity of discourses necessary to sustain and foster diversity.
'A serious editorial is to follow here soon; meantime, we hope you enjoy some of the excellent work in these pages ….
Michelle Cahill
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