EPIZOOTICS #2
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EPIZOOTICS! Issue 2 Edited by Caitlin Stobie Harrison Sullivan Matthew Carbery Peter Adkins
Published August 2017 https://epizooticszine.wordpress.com/ Cover Art: ‘rendered2’ by Bethan Hughes ‘Hollow Lifefield’, ‘Fathomsuns’, and ‘The Poles’ are printed courtesy of Suhrkamp Verlag. ‘Specific Inherited Mutations’ was previously published in Eyewear. All rights reserved. This journal is protected by copyright. The copyright © remains with the named author. The moral right of the journal’s contributors have been asserted. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without prior permission.
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Editorial CREATIVE
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‘Strangled Ramble’ and ‘A Grave Matter’ — Ben Marsh Allen
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‘Depth Gauge’, ‘OMNIS’ and ‘Zynaps’ — Bill Bulloch
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‘VERNIX CASEOSA’ — Bryn Tales
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‘The Acceleration of a Horse on a Plane’ and ‘Nests XX- XXIII’ — Calum Hazell
20 ‘Pine Needle Poem (After David Miller, 2010)’ — Camilla Nelson 21
‘Three Celan Translations’ — Charles Eager
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‘Tantalus Beaker’, ‘The Ocean Biome : Keepsake & Egress’ and ‘The Lung : Heartbreak’ — Christopher Cokinos
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‘(1)’, ‘(2)’, ‘Tombstone’ and ‘What Space Between Us’ — David Rushmer
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‘Examination at the Faculty of Medicine, 1901’, ‘Blouet, 0.61x0.49m.’, ‘Medical Inspection, 0.83x0.61m’, ‘Dog-Cart, 0.27x0.35m.’ and ‘Alone, 1896’, — Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo
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‘isle of mull, 2016’ — Dominic O’Key
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‘Untitled Collaboration’ — Grizel Luttman-Johnson
40 ‘Osculation’ and ‘The Sunbather’ — Heather J Macpherson 42
‘The Eucalyptus Tree (Amic Deck, Wits University)’ — Kirby Manià
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‘Field Recordings (2016)’ — Matthew Carbery
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‘shoaling’ — Natalie Joelle
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‘Blot: A Narrative’ — Peter Adkins
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‘Specific Inherited Mutations’ — Rachel Gippetti
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‘LUCID’ — Skye McDade-Burn
69 ‘Sepia Night’, ‘Fenollosa Manuscript’ and ‘Acclaimed Ashes’ —Sneha Subramanian Kanta 72
‘An Unsettling Effect’, ‘Expanding the Search Area’, ‘An Expert in the Field’, ‘An Underwater Shot’, ‘Tide Tables’ — Steve Spence
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Canalchemy #2 — Steve Hitchins
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‘Ten Tiny Poems (30 January 2016)’, ‘Decompression’, — Stuart Ross
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‘Ringwood’ — Tom Betteridge
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‘Erotica’ — Tom Snarsky
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‘The Sons Of Hell’ — William Telford
CRITICAL 95
‘Plasticising the Biogea’ — Eline Tabak REVIEWS
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Roy Fisher’s Slakki: New & Neglected Poems — Oliver Webb
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Sam Solnick’s Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry — Harrison Sullivan
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Dylan Trigg’s Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety — Matthew Carbery
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Ian Duhig’s The Blind Road Maker — Steve Spence
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Biographical Notes
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‘Three Celan Translations’ — Charles Eager We who were Charles’s five translations now are three. I. Hollow lifefield. In the windcatch the vainblown lung blooms. A handful, sleepcorn, ways out the truthstammered mouth hereout to the snowspeakings. II. Fathomsuns over the greyblack waste. A treeheigh thought grasps in the lighttone: there are still songs to sing overleaf of mankind. III. ‘And I will go to bed at noon.’ — Fool, King Lear The poles are in us, unovercomeable in waking. We sleep across, before the gate of expience,
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I lose you to you, that is my snowconsolement, say, that Jerusalem is, say’t, as were I this, your white, as were you mein, as could we without us we be, I leaf you over, for ever, you pray, you to-bed us free.
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