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A mad survivalist's loot. From homeless to discarded pocket cathedrals to return back to a citadel after years of science and sands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'In this small collection of poems, Ariel Riveros shares with us a deep and wide  range of subjects\/themes all intrinsically  permeated with his own and very particular schizoanalytic perception\/feelings\/fears of the world (his own Universe\/Cosmome). \u003cem\u003eCommoning\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable  example of hybrid poetry: an awesome\/ so intense blend of experimental, conceptual,  surreal, beat and Latin-Australian Neo barococo poetry- and Ariel's first language is English. Highly recommended reading.' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMario Licón Cabrera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'a regular crazy Ai Wei Wei' - Prof. Chris Clancy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'moments reminiscent of John Fowles' - CD Barron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A star caught a devil eavesdropping;\u003cbr\u003eAnd shot down, a flame burning in its wake;\u003cbr\u003eLike a horseman in the desert who has lost his turban;\u003cbr\u003eIt ends fluttering behind him.” Shihab Al Din al-Nuwayri (1316) describing a comet. Happy 2018 Monsieur!' - \u003ca class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adam.raffel?fref=mentions\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100003712655687\u0026amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\"\u003eAdam Raffel\u003c\/a\u003e to me on New Years Day 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'not Chronos' fool' - Alise Blayney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Sounds like Albert's famous Gedankenexperiment that convinced him gravity acted in a curved space-time. Great minds dream alike' - Dr Frederick Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAriel Riveros\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Sydney-based writer and literary translator. He was the founding editor of Australian Latino Press and organiser for The Blue Space Poetry Jam readings. His works have appeared in various publications including \u003cem\u003eSoutherly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eContrappasso Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMascara Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFourW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVerity La\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eETZ\u003c\/em\u003e, '\u003cem\u003eForgetting is so Long' Poetry Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJournal of Postcolonial Text\u003c\/em\u003e. Ariel has featured at major national literary festivals and poetry events. His chapbook of short stories, \u003cem\u003eSelf-Imposed House Arrest\u003c\/em\u003e, was published through Blank Rune Press in 2015. 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What I enjoyed most is the way the birds intensely haunt the imagination of the speaker … We can see in Dimitra Harvey’s poem how the poetic imagination depends upon emotion, so that by the end, the speaker’s deep connection to the birds allows for an expansion and activation of knowledge.' \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eJudith Beveridge,\u003cem\u003e Cordite.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimitra Harvey\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Sydney to a Greek mother, and grew up on Wangal country. She has a Bachelor of Performance Studies from the University of Western Sydney, and a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. 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