Benjamin Laird

Poetry

Programmable/Electronic

2022
Rotation About a Fixed AxisRotation About a Fixed Axis, Issue 107: Liminal, Cordite Poetry Review
2019
Psychometric ResearchesPsychometric Researches, Red Room Poetry. Shortlisted for the QUT Digital Literature Award in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards.
2017
Core ValuesCore Values, Australian Poetry (first read as part of the Transforming My Country series at the Melbourne Writers Festival 2016). Shortlisted for the QUT Digital Literature Award in the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards.
2016
The Durham PoemsThe Durham Poems, SOd Press. Included in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 4.
2014
William-DentonWilliam-Denton, The Code of Things
Denton's Game of LifeDenton’s Game of Life, The Code of Things
2013
They Have Large Eyes and Can See In All DirectionsThey Have Large Eyes and Can See In All Directions, The Code of Things
2012
False SecurityFalse Security
Machine StateMachine State, (En)coded Poetry: Read, Write, Execute
TerminalTerminal, (En)coded Poetry: Read, Write, Execute
Re(U)topiaRe(U)topia, (En)coded Poetry: Read, Write, Execute
SubsurfaceSubsurface, (En)coded Poetry: Read, Write, Execute
The Representation of SelfThe Representation of Self, (En)coded Poetry: Read, Write, Execute
2011
Sound-less-scapeSound-less-scape, Issue 36.0: Electronica, Cordite Poetry Review
Nothing Left InNothing Left In, Issue 36.0: Electronica, Cordite Poetry Review
Skin and BoneSkin and Bone, Issue 10: Skin, Peril

Print

2020
repeat, after me, Scars: An Anthology of Microlit, Spineless Wonders
2018
No Nations of the Dead, Vol. 2, Tell Me Like You Mean It, Australian Poetry
2017
Night on Jupiter, Issue 4, para·text
The People of Jupiter Floating in the Air, Issue 4, para·text
They Use no Ink, but Write Straight Along, Issue 4, para·text
Core Values, Issue 7.1, Australian Poetry Journal (linearised print version)
2015
The Mineral Wealth of Western Australia, Issue 15: Biography, Rabbit
Published Every Saturday, at the Corner of Liberty and Water Streets, Dayton, O, Issue 15: Biography, Rabbit
I Would Not Be a King in the Bulletin, Issue 15: Biography, Rabbit
Annie Dreams of Mars, Issue 15: Biography, Rabbit
2014
Maribyrnong, Issue 16, Unusual Work
Uganda, Issue 16, Unusual Work
Loose Cantos Wreck the Book, Issue 16, Unusual Work
2013
The Last Fleet, Issue 13, Unusual Work
Elemental Positioning, Issue 13, Unusual Work
Rendering, Issue 13, Unusual Work
2012
Oppositional, Issue 3: Visual, Rabbit
Division, Issue 3: Visual, Rabbit
Predator Drone: A Family History, Issue 3: Visual, Rabbit

Collaborations

2014
Composition GPDF107/GPDFE006, with Angela Genusa, Gauss PDF

Editing/Curating

2017
Australian Poetry Journal, Issue 7.2: Work, with Cassandra Atherton
2014
Photonic Overland, Special e-poetry issue of Overland
2013
Electronic Overland, Special e-poetry issue of Overland

Essays/Articles

2013
Paying the Writers, with Jennifer Mills, Issue 211 Winter 2013, Overland
2012
CEOs, Authors and White-collar Work, Issue 206 Autumn 2012, Overland
2011
Australian Literary Journals: Virtual and Social, Issue 36.0: Electronica, Cordite Poetry Review

Interviews

2017
Interview with Mark Nowak, Issue 22: Jazz, Rabbit

Projects

2020
Panacea, Red Room Poetry
2014
Bot or Not, with Oscar Schwartz