Published in 2013, the seventh issue of Rabbit, Australia's journal for nonfiction poetry, approaches sound as a physical, social and conceptual phenomenon, bringing together experimental writing, visual poetry and criticism.

Contributors including Amanda Stewart, Lance Nizami, Patrick Jones, Autumn Royal, Susan Hawthorne and Andrew J. Carruthers approach the theme through typography, fragmentation, repetition, silence and the material properties of words. Letters scatter across pages, conventional syntax gives way to spatial arrangements, and poems attend to the noises of bodies, cities, environments and political upheaval. The issue also features interviews, visual artwork and critical writing, extending its interest in sound beyond the printed poem.

Its central proposition is that poetry need not merely describe the audible world: the page itself can become a kind of acoustic space.

Rabbit Poetry Journal, Melbourne, Summer 2013. Number Seven: The Sound Issue. Original issue. Illustrated paperback journal with typographic and visual poetry throughout. Light shelfwear to illustrated wrappers; interior pages appear clean and well preserved.