EPIZOOTICS #2 1

EPIZOOTICS! Issue 2

Edited by
Caitlin Stobie
Harrison Sullivan
Matthew Carbery
Peter Adkins

Published August 2017

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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.

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Contents
6 Editorial

CREATIVE

9 ‘Strangled Ramble’ and ‘A Grave Matter’ — Ben Marsh

Allen

11 ‘Depth Gauge’, ‘OMNIS’ and ‘Zynaps’ — Bill Bulloch

14 ‘VERNIX CASEOSA’ — Bryn Tales

15 ‘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

23 ‘Tantalus Beaker’, ‘The Ocean Biome : Keepsake & Egress’

and ‘The Lung : Heartbreak’ — Christopher Cokinos

29 ‘(1)’, ‘(2)’, ‘Tombstone’ and ‘What Space

Between Us’ — David Rushmer

33 ‘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

38 ‘isle of mull, 2016’ — Dominic O’Key

39 ‘Untitled Collaboration’ — Grizel Luttman-Johnson

40 ‘Osculation’ and ‘The Sunbather’ — Heather J
Macpherson

42 ‘The Eucalyptus Tree (Amic Deck, Wits

University)’ — Kirby Manià

44 ‘Field Recordings (2016)’ — Matthew Carbery

49 ‘shoaling’ — Natalie Joelle

52 ‘Blot: A Narrative’ — Peter Adkins

60 ‘Specific Inherited Mutations’ — Rachel Gippetti

61 ‘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

78 Canalchemy #2 — Steve Hitchins

80 ‘Ten Tiny Poems (30 January 2016)’,

‘Decompression’, — Stuart Ross

83 ‘Ringwood’ — Tom Betteridge

89 ‘Erotica’ — Tom Snarsky

90 ‘The Sons Of Hell’ — William Telford

 CRITICAL

95 ‘Plasticising the Biogea’ — Eline Tabak

REVIEWS

110 Roy Fisher’s Slakki: New & Neglected Poems — Oliver Webb

112 Sam Solnick’s Poetry and the

Anthropocene: Ecology, biology and technology in
contemporary British and Irish poetry — Harrison Sullivan

115 Dylan Trigg’s Topophobia: A

Phenomenology of Anxiety — Matthew Carbery

118 Ian Duhig’s The Blind Road Maker — Steve Spence

121 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 vain-
blown lung
blooms. A handful,
sleepcorn,
ways out the truth-
stammered mouth
hereout to the snow-
speakings.

II.

Fathomsuns
over the greyblack waste.
A tree-
heigh 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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