Cirrus@Austlit

A journal for nonfiction poetry could be considered its own kind of sustained mutiny, as a space and mode through which to refuse to obey the orders and conventions of genre, to reject the navigational tools that separate books into neat categories on bookstore shelves, to dwell in a less 'comfortable' literary space to see what might emerge. Certainly, across the 39 issues of Rabbit, I have revelled in the results of poet, poets tackling topic and theme with the mighty tools of line and breath, of pattern and rhythm, of  gesture and play: I have enjoyed observing the relegation of narrative,' the informational to the background as poets foreground less 'stable' places that encourage a reader's active engagement and interpretation.' (Jessica Wilkinson : Editorial introduction)