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251 Winter 2023

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Louis Armand

(2011). His critical works include Videology (2015), The Organ-Grinder’s Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde (2013) and Incendiary Devices (1993). He is formerly an editor of the international arts journal VLAK and co-directs the Prague Microfestival. www.louis-armand.com

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23 July 20238 August 2023 · Friday Poetry

Three poems by Louis Armand

Louis Armand

& William Blake on the Manly ferry / shirtless at bowsprit, big dipper across the Heads. / the poem sought you out, / gullscreech in wide mandala sky, a ravenous / thing. lifetimes pass though art pretends not to, a burnt stub / on manicured suburban lawn, / once, almost.

Published in Overland Issue 250 Autumn 2023 · Poetry

Structures don’t go out onto the streets? Notes on John Tranter’s radical pastiche

Louis Armand

My first real encounter with John Tranter’s work, outside the miscellaneous poetry journals that somehow found their way into the local public library, came about unexpectedly enough through the efforts of John Millett, editor of the soon-to-be-defunct Poetry Australia.

Published in Overland Issue 250 Autumn 2023 · Poetry

DI/ODE CLXX

Louis Armand

raw bone scrapes / wires through bared soles of feet & tin-can telephone voice to braindead hours like windowdraught. there are killing words of pure hypnotism, too, as though a contrary fact cld alter the physics of it. they whisper constantly.

Published in Overland Issue 242 Autumn 2021 · Poetry

Conspiracy theory is contemporary genre literature

Louis Armand

1. the task isn’t to tell the truth / but to induce in the reader / the belief that they’ve discovered it 2. only the poet finds Abyssinia inside the toe of their shoe