Kate Fagan was born in 1973 and lives in Sydney. Additional publications include the chapbooks return to a new physics (Sydney: Vagabond) and Thought’s Kilometre (London: Tolling Elves). Her poetry appears in Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets. Kate is the editor of HOW2, a US-based journal of innovative contemporary and modernist writing by women, and co-editor with Peter Minter of material poetics review. Also a musician, she has performed extensively across Australia and in the UK.

• I. CalendarII. return to a new physicsIII. Anti-landscapeAnti-landscape: lighthouse beachLighthouse series‘Geophilosophy’EcologueIV. The waste of tonguesThe phoenix cupBeing as such (eulogy)In pursuit of blueSentienceThe waste of tongues

Fagan, in typical post-language internationalist style, utilises lyric to produce an effect that is both concrete and casual. But it also convinces: “we step into locations / and change them, or they happen to us.” With Fagan there is no preamble, no setting up of the poet’s stall, no hang-up about ‘voice.’ The simple statement above immediately questions itself but without angst; the tone is cool and open. The compression and control here, the artifice used to give the impression of saying so much with so little, produces a poetry not strictly dependent on the character of its author, a poetry which works with its muse at one remove.