Iconoclast
May 2025


Iconoclast
May 2025

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The Australian literary scene and beyond is under attack. Tune in to our podcast, where poets Magan Magan and Michele Seminara explore the hostile nature of woke ideology and its attack on freedom of expression in the arts.

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The Australian literary scene is being undermined and stifled. Tune in to our podcast, where poets Magan Magan and Michele Seminara explore the hostile nature of woke ideology and its attack on freedom of expression in the arts.

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  • MEN OF A TIME AND PLACE: an interview with Nigel FeatherstoneMEN OF A TIME AND PLACE: an interview with Nigel Featherstone
    Nigel Featherstone is a well-known and well-loved writer in the Australian literary community. Author of critically-acclaimed novel, Remnants (Pandanus Books, 2005), three novellas — The Beach Volcano (2014), I’m Ready ... Read More
  • I am a Palestinian Child (Badaoui El-Hage & Zeina Issa)I am a Palestinian Child (Badaoui El-Hage & Zeina Issa)
    Seventy years and spring has not yet arrived. For seventy years, our windows and doors brought forth revolt after revolt and we churned the tune of every song into an ... Read More
  • The Tea Ceremony (Indigo Perry)The Tea Ceremony (Indigo Perry)
    Once, after he’d confessed to another indiscretion, she got up and ran from the riverbank. When she reached the highway, she slowed down and walked, heartbeat steady by the time ... Read More
  • Poems by Juan Garrido-Salgado and Ariel Riveros PavezPoems by Juan Garrido-Salgado and Ariel Riveros Pavez
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The Vault
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    In the Middle of Analysis In the middle of the night in the middle of a shared pandemic I lay on my back not falling to pieces in the middle ... Read More
  • Working it out (Jen Webb)Working it out (Jen Webb)
    Getting there This is the morning I wake from a dream of drowning, and wait for what comes next. Someone brings me tea I cannot drink, chocolates made of coconut. ... Read More
  • Bloom (Les Wicks)Bloom (Les Wicks)
    Suburbs now have their community gardens. Husbands buried there turn the pages of books abandoned because the heroine fretted too much to actually do anything. This ambition to compost sees ... Read More
  • Triage (Rebecca Jessen)Triage (Rebecca Jessen)
    the kind lady on the end of the line will say this: I have to ask. in the present you wait. yes, I was thirteen, only the one time. yes, ... Read More
  • Back Row (Andrew Hall)Back Row (Andrew Hall)
    Bowling Shoes I just remembered today that when I was a kid, whenever we went bowling, I used to wear bowling shoes. They would all change into theirs, then Dad ... Read More