Hard drives, printed emails, bracing for the symbolic click Laughed at our canned food stacks, our computer backups and stored Levitating transport believed indicators pointed Two and three zeroes, some still thought we’d flip to perfectionīut many of us upon seeing the lack of unwheeled Landfills eradicated while convenience multiplied. Trash compressed into water resistant bookless libraries: Scent-less human excrement toilets flush recycled water With restored forests and sleek modern buildings powered by We’d return the planet to full eco-balance complete
The magic year approaching fast, the one we’d all writtenĪbout in grade school: we’d ride hovercrafts to the mall and Moya Pacey and Sandra Renew (founding editors)Įverything unknown: five years before the millennium.
Finally, we thank guest editor Anne Casey and feature artist Teena McCarthy for their substantial contributions to this issue. We also want to acknowledge the poets who contributed audio recordings of readings of their poems and thank Melinda Smith who contributed a review article of collections by the four Canberra-based Not Very Quiet editors. We want to thank sincerely every poet who submitted their poems to Issue 7 of Not Very Quiet. A very diverse collection of eighty poems that ranges from narratives to short lyrics in a variety of forms drawing upon direct experience and the transformative effect of poetry.
It was a great privilege to read the submissions and a very difficult task to narrow down the choices for publication. A compelling trigger for reflection, speculation, reconciliation and closure but for some it led to uncomfortable, disturbing and challenging memories and often raw personal writing. Poets used it as an opportunity to look back, to explore many different memories. The provocation is consonant with the times we are living through. It’s very clear to us that women poets wanted to write and share poems for this Memoir issue that ‘resonate with the desire or compulsion to revisit, relive, interrogate, reinterpret, record and recreate the past’. It’s our biggest yet with over 500 poems received from near and far: every continent represented, except for Antarctica and South America. We are delighted at the response to Issue 7 – Memoir.
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