'When we put out the call for TRANSQUEER we asked poets ‘to explore trans identities not as positions to defend but as modes of becoming and thus ways of being human’ (Joy Ladin, Trans Studies Quarterly, 2016: 640) and ‘to believe that the world is QUEER, or that oneself is, or both, [and that this] is a window of doubt through which all creative possibility comes into being’ (Mark Doty, The Art of Description: World into Word).' (Stuart Barnes and Quinn Eades : Introduction)
Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
The Kindness of Strangers: On New Zealand’s Literary Journals by Louise Wallace
Three Translated Xhevdet Bajraj Poems by Alice Whitmore
Four Translated Ángelo Néstore Poems by Lawrence Schimel
‘There is nothing more shared than language’: Carolyn DeCarlo Interviews Gregory Kan
Owen Bullock Reviews Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Winnie Siulolovao Dunn Reviews Tayi Tibble
Play Animals by Trish Salah
Queer and Desperate Poetry by Amber Dawn
TASHA by Eileen Myles
Moonface by Lune Loh
I in the Execrable Excess by B B P Hosmillo
IX by Ruben Quesada
Love Transposed by Ian Iqbal Rashid
@Lesbian_Animals by Robyn Maree Pickens
Personnel by A D Harper
Soteriology by Andrew Kirkrose
New DLC Patch : The Seven Deadly Skins for Gender Switch System by Andy Winter
Female Impersonator Holding Long Gloves by Chris Tse
I am a Man by Emma Barnes
Untitled 1 by Kristin LaFollette
Broken Dictionary by R A Briggs
A Dream of the Cyborg as Metaphor for the Historical Body Called Language by Francesca Lisette
Truck Stop Bitch by Megan Dunn
Drag Act by Kevin Cahill
I Look at My Body and See the Source of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile by Mark Anthony Cayanan
Finding Herbert by R L Swihart
At Rome by Penny Newell
Looking for Hot GAM by Andy Quan
The Doctors Say by Mark Ward
Dear Mr President by CA Conrad
Winnie Siulolovao Dunn Reviews Tayi Tibble
Owen Bullock Reviews Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Includes art by Ms Saffaa, Ross Gibson and Chris Abrahams
'Two very recent books by two mid-career Melbourne poets offer distinct intellectual gymnasiums in which to lift and push and run and sweat. I may not have been able to master these books, but they knocked the breath out of me.' (Introduction)