Rabbit 36

What makes (an) art ‘work’? What draws us (individually, collectively) to particular works of art? How might we—as artist and/or audience—understand matters of intention, reception, consensus, affect? This issue considers how a poem might provide an ideal—open, expansive, vital—space to explore these questions, not merely ekphrastically, but philosophically, spatially, sonically, architecturally and affectively. Featuring poems by Bella Li, LK Holt, Ellen van Neervan, Paul Collis, Luke Beesley, Ouyang Yu and more.