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
  • 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
  • 29 days since (Jenny Pollak)29 days since (Jenny Pollak)
    The valve of the heart bends forward over the bones of the hill. This is how air carves the earth to claim a place it can hold. The long face ... Read More
  • VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 10: Eileen ChongVERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 10: Eileen Chong
    EILEEN CHONG: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Managing Editor Michele Seminara chat with Eileen Chong about her forthcoming book, Rainforest, out ... Read More
  • The Light Fantastic (Mark O’Flynn)The Light Fantastic (Mark O’Flynn)
    GRASSHOPPER, 1889 Stuck fast  the grasshopper in Van Gogh’s painting  Olive Grove has achieved some immortality,  at least so far as it goes for grasshoppers.  Like Pharaohs eviscerated, or thylacines ... Read More
  • Simone Says (Emily Barber)Simone Says (Emily Barber)
    I wake naked in an empty bed. ‘Reuben?’ I call, but there’s no response. Anxious all of a sudden, I pull on knickers and a camisole and pad down the ... Read More
The Vault
  • A Captain’s (Ian Gibbins)A Captain’s (Ian Gibbins)
    Artist’s Statement “Here again, not well, likely a turnspit, jiggered … whose trajectory scours my sleep? What worriment forths mildewed landsend?”   A captain, out on the high seas, on ... Read More
  • Colony Collapse (Ian Gibbins)Colony Collapse (Ian Gibbins)
    Artist’s Statement “I am still watching ghosts, eyes rimed with salt, homesick… this was never our natural state, our true inheritance… we should not be here…” While walking around the ... Read More
  • An Abyss of Feathers <br>(Anne Elvey)An Abyss of Feathers <br>(Anne Elvey)
    memorial coin a rainbow of magic possums plays ring-a-rosie on the $2 coin she passes for the boat ride to free- dom saying listen listen to me listen to the ... Read More
  • VOICES OF DIASPORA: (Mark William Jackson, Angelene Karas and Eunice Andrada)VOICES OF DIASPORA: (Mark William Jackson, Angelene Karas and Eunice Andrada)
    (edited by Ramon Loyola & Michele Seminara) Proof of Life By Mark William Jackson If asked for proof of identity I can pull a card from my sacred wallet that ... Read More
  • Adieu to 2020Adieu to 2020
    Well I think we can all agree that 2020 has been quite the ride (and that’s putting it nicely!) This year has presented everyone — without exception — with challenges ... Read More