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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined
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A guided meditation, proceeding backwards through the four parts of Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined:

'Goldfish Oil: Consider an orange. It has many pleasing features: bright peel, pungent scent, pleasing heft in your hand. But none of these features is the orange. You could paint the orange purple, de-scent it, dangle it in zero gravity … and it would remain an orange. Where, then, is the essence of the orange? Whence its orangeness?

'Bitter Berries Bite Back: Are you holding an orange? If so, eat it before reading any further; it’s important to the example, and you’ll need the sustenance. Good. Now you’re clutching something even more marvellous and mysterious than any fruit: the absence of fruit. It has no colour, no scent, no heft … yet there it is, in the palm of your hand. (It’s also stashed underneath your chair, balanced atop your head, and stuffed into the toe of your left shoe.) Check all these places and see for yourself: no fruit. How can you perceive what isn’t there?

'Closets: Consider the inside of your own head. It’s more tractable than any pumpkin or melon: you’ve lived there all your life. Do you have secrets up there: old love letters, embarrassing self-portraits, or half-starved animals scrabbling to get out? Did you leave a crate of oranges there once, and forget about it? What happens to oranges when they can’t breathe?

'The Rug from under You: If you have one apple, and you take away two apples, how many apples do you have? If two potatoes are launched towards each other at a velocity of 100 kph, where will it end? If this sentence is true, then you are an orange. Slip out of your pith, into a poem.

–Rachael Briggs' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Cordite Press , 2016 .
      image of person or book cover 3955147686911405310.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 58p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 March 2016
      ISBN: 9780994259691
      Series: y separately published work icon CorditeBooks : Series 1 Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2016 10421282 2016 series - publisher poetry Number in series: 7

Works about this Work

Anupama Pilbrow of Rachael Briggs, Common Anupama Pilbrow , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 244-247)

Anupama Pilbrow examines the structure of presence-absence of poem categories within Rachael Briggs' Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined.

Poetry's Biodiversity Lucas Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 66-67)

— Review of She Woke & Rose Autumn Royal , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Spelter to Pewter Javant Biarujia , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetic Art of Moving Pictures Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 22)

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
A Whiff of Gunpowder Greg McLaren , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 2 2016; (p. 70-82)

'Just one of the many really interesting trails that thread through the seeming wilds of Australian poetry over the last two or so decades (cripes, has it been that long?) is the slow, constant morphing one of Cordite. Sydney poets Adrian Wiggins and Peter Minter, founders of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, launched their first issue in 1997. After five issues in a broadsheet format and an oscillating editorship that included Margaret Cronin and Jennifer Kremmer, the editorship was handed over in 2005 to David Prater, whose key innovation was to appoint guest editors for mini- and, later, entire issues.'

(Introduction)

Poetic Art of Moving Pictures Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 22)

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetry's Biodiversity Lucas Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 66-67)

— Review of She Woke & Rose Autumn Royal , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Spelter to Pewter Javant Biarujia , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
A Whiff of Gunpowder Greg McLaren , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 2 2016; (p. 70-82)

'Just one of the many really interesting trails that thread through the seeming wilds of Australian poetry over the last two or so decades (cripes, has it been that long?) is the slow, constant morphing one of Cordite. Sydney poets Adrian Wiggins and Peter Minter, founders of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, launched their first issue in 1997. After five issues in a broadsheet format and an oscillating editorship that included Margaret Cronin and Jennifer Kremmer, the editorship was handed over in 2005 to David Prater, whose key innovation was to appoint guest editors for mini- and, later, entire issues.'

(Introduction)

Anupama Pilbrow of Rachael Briggs, Common Anupama Pilbrow , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 244-247)

Anupama Pilbrow examines the structure of presence-absence of poem categories within Rachael Briggs' Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined.

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