Nov
2007 4
2007 4
Editorial
This edition themed “The meaning of life” features an interview with Alice Pung exploring her meaning of life. It includes a poem inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Master, a commentary by Rosey Chang on the Dalai Lama and poetry by myself, Rosey and George Mouradatis. We also have a sound piece by ...
Nov
2007 4
2007 4
Interview with Alice Pung
Alice Pung is the author of the highly successful “An Unpolished Gem”. We managed to catch her in between literary dates and her work as a lawyer to ask her a few questions about the meaning of life...
Nov
2007 4
2007 4
Asian/Australian Values Workshop
Highlights from the Asian/Australian Values: New Directions in Australian Literature Workshop I attended this workshop along with Tom Cho courtesy of Wenche Ommundsen and Alison Broinowski who brought together writers, publishers and academics to discuss Asian/Australian Values. Much was quoted from the current Griffith Review issue “In the...
Nov
2007 4
2007 4
Language – an audio composition by Josh Goldman
Josh Goldman is a composer / improviser / guitarist / educator who resides in the United States. He composes / improvises / performs music, using acoustic and electronic sources, for various ensembles and settings. Much of his music combines sound and visual elements (film / video / various installation spaces). His compositions and performances...
Nov
2007 4
2007 4
The Dalai Lama and the Dharma
I’m a student of Dharma, the Buddha’s teachings. I’m a baby student and very new to the path. Never having attended a Buddhist teaching or even read a Buddhist book, when I was 25 I bought a ticket to teachings by the Dalai Lama in Sydney. Although raised a Catholic, I naively expected to return ...
Nov
2007 4
2007 4
Thich Nhat Hanh – Zen Master
Saigon He walks in silence Ten thousand hushes And the world takes a breath...
Nov
2007 4
2007 4
Hungry caterpillars
nameless dumb late afternoon and silence crawls in great puddles of caterpillars—...
Jun
2007 17
2007 17
Editorial
Welcome to Peril number 3 – themed “Rebel”. We have a smorgasbord of articles, pieces and poems for you, starting with an article by Scott Brook about Vietnamese-Australian eighties fashion with its rebellious overtones...
Jun
2007 17
2007 17
Yumi Umiumare
Yumi Umiumare as ‘cross-cultural’ rebel in ‘DasSHOKU Hora!!’ Japanese-born performer Yumi Umiumare’s playful investigations of cross-cultural femininity strategically utilise in-between subjectivities to fracture cultured and gendered truths. In 1995 Umiumare devised a performance in Melbourne named Tokyo DasShoku girl...
