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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The Vault
  • An Interview With Saddiq Dzukogi: Your Crib, My QiblaAn Interview With Saddiq Dzukogi: Your Crib, My Qibla
    Saddiq Dzukogi with Verity La Poetry Editors Michele Seminara and Robbie Coburn Wineglass When your mother found strands of your hair hung up in the teeth of your comb, your ... Read More
  • Antithesis (Michelle Hartman)
    Antithesis I am reading Mark Strand’s poem about a man in his bedroom clipping pieces of his body away while he lays there and hums the part of me that ... Read More
  • Wishbone <br> (Emily Crocker)Wishbone <br> (Emily Crocker)
    Taking your hip bones from the countertop I wish to clothe you from the linen cupboard. Organic bamboo.           Modern greys.              ... Read More
  • Desolation Songs (Robbie Coburn)Desolation Songs (Robbie Coburn)
    Karma Indiscriminate rain and sunlight. muted light, the room instantly full of bodies — the way they pull up your sleeves and remove your shirt, examining your arms and chest ... Read More
  • Book of Colours <br>(Robyn Cadwallader)Book of Colours <br>(Robyn Cadwallader)
    The cross had just enough lacework and carving to give space for his hands and feet, and despite his aching clumsiness he climbed up as far as he could for ... Read More
The Vault
  •  Analysis (Yvette Henry Holt) Analysis (Yvette Henry Holt)
    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
  • Make Me (Janet Marie Rogers)Make Me (Janet Marie Rogers)
      Artist’s Statement ‘Make Me’ is an erotic poem with a developed performance which borrows from Indigenous ceremony and brings in sensuous elements that exemplify the grounded and tactile nature ... Read More
  • Growth Always Growth (Fabrice Poussin)Growth Always Growth (Fabrice Poussin)
    Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, Eskimo Pie, The Chimes and will appear in other magazines throughout 2016.  ... Read More
  • Common Tongue (Miguel Jacq)Common Tongue (Miguel Jacq)
    i. A weekday, cocooned somewhere in my twenties, one father and his son suspended in a lift shaft an everyday moment, a faraday cage moment until a phone call makes ... Read More
  • The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)
    The Bridge I Must Walk Across Is this what it means to be lost? Stuck inside my skin — unable to shed it, unable to grow another — I am ... Read More