KalliopeX

02/05/2024

Please welcome Issue 6 into your reading rooms! We may be considered a small journal but our reach is vast.
https://www.kalliopex.com/issue-6-autumn-2024/

16/12/2023

Kalliope X Issue 5 is live! https://www.kalliopex.com/issue-5-summer-2023/

28/11/2023

27/11/2023

The Asian Australian Writers Festival is on this Thursday the 30th of November at the University of Melbourne! Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/asian-australian-writers-festival

26/11/2023

In Kalliope X Issue 3, Peter Lyssiotis limbs a spiritual homecoming in his masterful 'The Oi 12' poems: https://www.kalliopex.com/poet-peter-lyssiotis/

25/11/2023

Also in Kalliope X Issue 3, David Roberts tackles Greek Weird Wave cinema, the Junta and celluloid metonymy: https://www.kalliopex.com/essay-the-state-is-a-sick-person-the-hippocratic-cinema-of-the-greek-weird-wave-by-david-roberts/

24/11/2023

From Michelle Cahill, a quartet of vital, introspective poems in Kalliope X Issue 3: https://www.kalliopex.com/feature-poet-michelle-cahill/

23/11/2023

Also in Kalliope X Issue 3, Erika Carreon's dreamscape of urban disquiet entrenched in the Anthropocene: https://www.kalliopex.com/fiction-the-city-calls-by-erika-carreon/

From 'Python':

"She cut open the python’s belly and pulled out her husband’s partly-digested body. Which is better: this, or catching him with one of the mistresses. Seeing them laid out, spouse and snake side by side, she had to admit that she didn’t know who to feel sorry for."

22/11/2023

With Issue 5 of Kalliope X slated for December the 1st, why not revisit some of our bounteous, fit-to-burst previous issues? In Kalliope X Issue 3, for example, Dmetri Kakmi speaks with the wonderful Lee Kofman about writing, the body and personal adversity: https://www.kalliopex.com/interview-with-lee-kofman/

05/11/2023

Issue 2 of Kalliope X also features this richly detailed excerpt from Sara M Saleh's coming-of-age novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living, now published by Affirm Press: https://www.kalliopex.com/fiction-songs-for-the-dead-and-the-living-by-sara-saleh/

03/11/2023

Also in Kalliope X Issue 2, this suite of superb poems by Myron Lysenko depicting the personal impacts of Chernobyl (translated into Ukrainian by Olya and Marko Pavlyshyn): https://www.kalliopex.com/poet-myron-lysenko/

01/11/2023

In Kalliope X Issue 2, Amra Pajalić reflects on trauma in her powerful memoir, 'Helpless': https://www.kalliopex.com/memoir-helpless/

01/11/2023

At 7:30pm on Monday the 6th of November at La Mama Courthouse (and via livestream), contrabassist, cellist, composer and friend of Kalliope X, Nick Tsiavos, will launch his album, Maps for Losing Oneself, with a night of unmissable music.

Where: La Mama Courthouse, 349 Drummond Street, Carlton
When: 7:30-8:40pm on 6 November

Tickets for the in-person concert and the livestream can be booked through https://lamama.com.au/whats-on/la-mamica/musica-november-2023-maps-for-losing-oneself/?fbclid=IwAR2JlDQHKnxmsugr1E1NWkWGGKXG_EmovTb-7XHdAOqIv1ooFfkeoVc-kCA

31/10/2023

Greek Beat poet Tasos Denegris features in Kalliope X Issue 2, both in Greek and in English translation (by George Mouratidis and Dimitris Troaditis): https://www.kalliopex.com/feature-poet-tasos-denegris/

From 'Faust and Indian Cannabis' (1989):

"Rarely has a person not given a f**k about
The sum values of the European spirit
Understanding, monuments, advisability, superiority,
Inferiority, Michaelangelo, Bardot,
Discourse, guardianship,
Rarely
Without having to give in exchange
A square acre from his sole."

21/10/2023

Issue 5 of Kalliope X is out on December the 1st! In the meantime, catch up on some of the brilliant contributions to our previous issues. For example, Effie Carr's trenchant depiction of childhood Otherness in 'Void Ab Initio', a chapter from her novel-in-progress: https://www.kalliopex.com/fiction-void-ab-initio-by-effie-carr/

06/10/2023

Dmetri Kakmi reflects on the singer, enigma and self-professed "Holy Fool" Diamanda Galas in Issue 1 of Kalliope X:

Essay Diamanda Galas: The Scourge of God by DMETRI KAKMI

05/10/2023

At 6:30pm on Tuesday the 10th of October at the University of Melbourne, Visiting Professor Yiorgos Anagnostou (Ohio State University) will deliver the 2023 Walter Mangold Public Lecture. With close attention to Greek Americans, the lecture "'writes' the history of European Americans in post-Civil Rights America."

Where: The University of Melbourne, Forum Theatre (Room 153), Arts West - North Wing (148A)
When: 6:30-7:45pm on 10 October

Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2023-walter-mangold-public-lecture-tickets-716938370967?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR1ZWKrqVnjc7HsfXyxN7pgc9XPsp-kpP1xKUJZG2vUAYwiSasTORdhggd4

Multiculturalism and the Making of European Americans in the United States: Politics, Ethnicity and Whiteness

01/10/2023

Also in Kalliope X Issue 1, this cadenza of incandescent, freefalling poetry courtesy George Mouratidis:

Poetry George Mouratidis Palm Sunday March for Peace 1986 α. Lit by city sunday afternoon a dawn-blue balloon swirled with spraypaint green tied to its twin, licorice black given away indiscriminately some kind of omen pupil of an eye into a

27/09/2023

Issue 1 of Kalliope X boasts these marvellous poems, both world-historical and tenderly personal, from Angela Costi:

Poetry Angela Costi What Mama Told Me You came out of me like a fish Your toys were books, I let you play with them At the Fish shop, you slept on the couch at the back When you woke, I made you hot chips You even ate the oysters!

22/09/2023

On Friday the 29th of September at 6:30-8:30pm, poet Ouyang Yu and artist Jessye Wdowin-McGregor are celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and the opening of Ekphrasis, their three-month residency at correspondences! Bookings are essential.

Where: correspondences (www.correspondences.work), 39 Sydney Road, Brunswick
When: 6:30-8:30pm on 29 September

Book tickets at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/correspondences1/998535

20/09/2023

Congratulations to Nadia Niaz, whose debut poetry collection, The Djinn Hunters, has been published as part of the Rabbit Poets Series! The book will be launched on Tuesday the 26th of September at 6-8pm at Crystal Palace & Courtyard.

LAUNCH DETAILS:

Where: Crystal Palace & Courtyard, 743-745 Nicholson Street, Carlton North
When: 6-8pm on 26 September
R.S.V.P: [email protected]

Copies of the book will be available at the launch and can also be bought direct from Rabbit Poetry at https://rabbitpoetry.com/shop?category=RPS+BOOKS

19/09/2023

The legendary Pi O is launching his new book of poetry, The Tour, at Brunswick Bound on Tuesday the 26th of September at 6pm. The book details, in the author's inimitable style, his experience on tour with other Australian poets in the U.S. and Canada in 1985. But it is also, Pi O tells us, "a history of performance poetry, racism, and class struggle, in Australian literature and how it was informed and practiced. you’d be maaaaaad not to come."

LAUNCH DETAILS:

Where: Brunswick Bound, 361 Sydney Road, Brunswick
When: 6pm on 26 September

The Tour is available at all good bookstores or direct from Giramondo Publishing at https://giramondopublishing.com/books/pi-o-the-tour/

17/09/2023

In Issue 1 of Kalliope X, Michael Mohammed Ahmad speaks about his novel, The Other Half of You, with George Mouratidis:

Interview Michael Mohammed Ahmad by GEORGE MOURATIDIS It's been about three years

11/09/2023

In the lead-up to Kalliope X Issue 5, why not peruse our prodigious back issues? Issue 1 features this excellent excerpt from Hoa Pham's memoir-in-progress, Admission:

Memoir A Cloud Floating in a Piece of Paper An excerpt from Admission, a memoir by

22/07/2023

Congratulations to Shirley Le on her delightful debut novel! Funny Ethnics is a refreshingly satirical second-generation migrant story that charts the travails of Sylvia Nguyen, caught between the cultural norms of Australia and the expectations of her Vietnamese family. Le is a member of the Sweatshop Literary Movement. Funny Ethnics is published by Affirm Press.

27/06/2023

Hunker down this winter and read some poetry.
Lagoon by Prithvi Varatharajan https://www.kalliopex.com/poet-prithvi-varatharajan/.

31/05/2023

This is fabulous. On Netflix

An American death row prisoner with a sideline in solving mysteries helps a young British journalist search for a friend who's suddenly disappeared.

28/05/2023

Looking for a little shot of horror, read 'Oh, Mother' by Paolo Di Orazio
https://www.kalliopex.com/fiction-oh-mother-by-paolo-di-orazio/.