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When Your Limbs Are No Longer Ghosts

Rafael S. W. on the mysteries surrounding phantom limbs and their potential for prosthetics.
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Don't Read This Review Until You Read This Book
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From the DJ Booth: Going Down Swinging 37 Launch Party
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Psychological Shopping: Target

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A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O

We found this explosion of an interview – A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O – in the sixth issue of Going Down Swinging, published in Spring 1984.
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Lingua Fracas

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The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

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The Poetry of Food: Awarding the SecondBite Prize

The topic of food has long been a lively muse for the creative mind – think sensual stimulation, social ritual, folk traditions, nourishment, and its converse, deprivation. The inaugural...
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Beards of Australia
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29-Hour Bus Ride
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Two People Write Letters to each Other about Things That Happen While They are Travelling in Different Countries Even Though, Sometimes, Not a Lot Actually Happens: Part I

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Do Not Shake The Bridge

A long bridge of books and paper spans the gorge. You have gone ahead and vertigo is a hand clasped round my ankle, with the gravity of flesh  ...
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Last Words of the Old Man with the Photographic Memory

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Finding the Will

Fiona Broom tries to find the most elusive of powers.
On Writing

PRISM International: Al Purdy Versus Earle Birney (Letter Excerpts)
On Writing

The Meditations Part VIII: Emilie Zoey Baker on 'Fuck You, Glee'
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Initially NO

On Writing

Poetry As Ritual: Directing the ‘Kimono of Mourning’

Anne M. Carson writes on confronting grief through ritual and poetry, and discusses the creative process surrounding the upcoming collaborative performance of her poem, ‘The dresser removes the Kimono...
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Reconciling Creativity with Copy

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