tita ruth tells stories as if she belongs to them as if they are alive eating tinola at the kitchen table with us in the house apu built bare hands …
Thawing of Time (Richard J Bell)
Artist’s Statement ‘Thawing of Time’ is a poetical short film about life beginning to thaw after being exited from mental health services. For years I tired to create movement in …
Final Frontier (Joo-Inn Chew)
Between traffic lights the night is dark and shapeless. My father’s van feels like a dented spaceship, dad and I strapped in like astronauts jetting through nothingness. He drives silently, …
Bare (Melinda Smith)
The dead are necessary they are forked like branches they have their own names call them: they are not hiding what use will you come to ? a eucalypt stag …
Pants (Lesley Boland)
I pour myself a wine from the open bottle in the ice bucket and find a seat on the outdoor lounge. To my left is a play area for the …
Poems for Thinking: Jennifer Maiden’s brookings: the noun (Ben Hession)
Review by Ben Hession Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Jennifer Maiden is an Australian poet who has been active for over fifty years, with a number of awards to her name. …
Recompense (Luke Best)
David with the Head of Goliath (Rome) — Caravaggio Fatality There’s a boy on the wall of my writing space: the all-dark 3a.m. cubicle. …
Leakage (Ian Gibbins)
Artist’s Statement ‘Under the hammer, blessed with character, a driveway absolved of tree fall, another pearly-eyed crow, a year’s worth of indecision on the compost heap…’ The text includes samples …
Waiting for Divinity (Karen Bell)
(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) ‘Are you standing in the street? What’s that background noise?’ Prof. Iris, a friend and mentor who let me keep her after undergrad, called me from …
My Suspect Friend, Anxiety (Joel Ephraims)
The Pharmacy on Hospital Hill I observe the surroundings of this place where I come to make sense. The colour opulence of the glittering cars of buyers of subsidized drugs, …