Call for Submissions for Issue 39: The MUTINY Issue

Rabbit is currently accepting poetry submissions for Issue 39: the MUTINY Issue, to be guest co-edited by Jennifer Compton and Joan Fleming.

When you don’t trust the captains, it’s time to take back the ship. For Rabbit: MUTINY, we seek rogue poems that resist the usual rules of resistance. We’re after nonfiction poems, in all aesthetic registers, that scorn the tyranny of planned obsolescence, false idolatry, rabid anthropocentrism, bad governance, and the logic of the market above all else. Send us your long-sighted, large-hearted, reverent/irreverent calls to arms. Any increment of subversion or transgression, down to and including dumb insolence, is eagerly solicited for this issue. Now is not the time to be a civic coward.

We invite poets to send up to 3 poems in one document through Rabbit’s Submittable site. Please include in the cover letter of your submission:

• full contact details (postal address, email)

• 50-word max. bio

• a short (50-word max.) response to the following: "Name a poem or a work that refuses to obey orders, that incites rebellion, or that questions the validity of authority, and why it gets you."

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT Thursday 29th February 2024 (see the ‘Contribute’ page for Submittable link)

About the guest poetry editors:

Jennifer Compton lives in Melbourne on unceded Boon Wurrung Country. In 2013 her poem ‘Now You Shall Know’ won the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She very much appreciates being given the big cheque but she also relishes the hurly burly of the open mic. Recent Work Press published her 11th book of poetry the moment, taken in 2021.

Award-winning poet Joan Fleming is the author of the collections The Same as Yes and Failed Love Poems (THWUP), and the post-collapse verse novel Song of Less (Cordite Books). She works as a lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, and writes about staying awake on the precipice.