Hello Dolly (Rebecca Jessen)
It is at once an ordinary and extraordinary Sunday. I am at home in Toowoomba with my girlfriend, and most of the daylight hours are spent assembling an IKEA flat pack bed. A task not to be underestimated. There are sore muscles and coffee cravings by the afternoon. There is a much-needed trip to a […]
Reading in an Undiscovered Library: Pulse – Prose Poems as Collaboration
Review by Lucy Alexander Edited by Robyn Cadwallader The woman has borrowed arms and legs. She walks on a tightrope in front of the watching crowd. They stand back as in- structed, and do not attempt to become a bigger part of what is happening… It is difficult to find an adequate definition of prose […]
TRUTH IN THE CAGE (Mohammad Ali Maleki)
You can find my whole life in my poems like a letter to God —Mohammad Ali Maleki Translated by Manus Island detainee Mansour Shoushtari Edited by Michele Seminara and Marilyn Beech A Dream of Death My dears, I know these are stories are old: but please, I ask you, listen. I was once young and […]
family portrait (Dave Drayton)
at first we were individual laugh at a cherub flashing gang signals so young that an assistant had to fold & knot those chubby thighs cross-legged but once the count can or is stop/ped the tubes are tied the sheets of Vagifem and Cenestin emptied into pillboxes it’s time to assemble the ranks in uniform […]
