The 2020 Spirit of Self Expression poetry reading took place on 27 September at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The event featured 22 works by a broad and exciting range …
EMBODY & GRIEF FOR HIRE
Launch of Verity La Anthology No. 2 EMBODY What does it mean to be embodied in human or animal form? How does our body — its size, colour, race, gender, …
A DECLARATION OF LOVE FOR HUMANITY: Judith Crispin reviews Les Wicks’ Belief
Review by Judith Crispin Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Les Wicks’ fourteenth collection of poems, Belief, is clever and brutal — an unflinching examination of human belief, in all of its …
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 …
GROWLING COCKATOOS AND HOPEFUL SWASTIKAS: Les Wicks’ Getting By Not Fitting In
Review by David Thomas Henry Wright Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Les Wicks’ Getting By Not Fitting In opens with two quotes, one by Mao Tse-tung: ‘All is chaos under the heavens, the …
Perhaps the Adventure (Les Wicks)
or maybe just the thrushes, their pecks. Paris, 1940. Les Boches have lined up our Gauloises & shot them. Plus the internet hasn’t even been invented. Klaus thinks Feminism is …
Matt & Tess in the Wild Weather: Poems by Les Wicks
Matt in The Wild Weather My Summer sits in silence. She wears this pet name like I have the power to give it, Tess is rolling familiar smoke I query …
More Views than Umm Like Everybody (Les Wicks)
Beer Shit has a Facebook page, 877 fans (hits the) as in followers/aficionados say oscillating fans are necessary Bud mud, the brown drown that some find exhilarating. LOL. Add it …