Review by Tony Messenger Edited by Robyn Cadwallader In 2016, UWA Publishing launched their new poetry list ‘in response to the reductions in poetry publishing nationally’, and in the three …
Rebirth (Patrick Sylvain)
For Grandpa F.P. I am dancing with faltering steps in a consuming Land of spiked honey. My flight to the carousel Of possibilities brought tears to my grandfather’s Angry eyes. …
Here and There (Jacob Parsons)
Edited by Kathryn Hummel ‘Will you permanently move to Sarajevo?’ my friend M asks me. It seems inevitable. It’s in Sarajevo that the most important aspects of my life play …
Carbon (Jayne Fenton Keane)
He has learned not to ask dangerous questions in the company of carnivorous flowers. “The signs are ominous” says the light in an arithmetic of tossed berries. Clouds will not …
Cyclothymia (Julie Maclean)
It floods like shame after a lie like a bleeding glacier …
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 …
A Christian in Manus Prison (Mohammad Ali Maleki)
Dedicated to my brothers in Bomana Immigration Prison There is no one left in this world who has not heard your name. Everyone knows your story. We humans are all …
Over And Out (For Now)
As the country burns and our arts sector crumbles, Verity La powers (well, maybe limps) to its finish line. How good is Australia, ay? But let’s not be downtrodden. When …
OUT OF THE VOID: Voices from Detention (Yasaman Bagheri and Farhad Bandesh )
(Curated by Saba Vasefi) When the moon is the only light in a home you haven’t known, you feel separated from your swan-song language.The moment of standing on a precipice …
Lady Green Sleeves (Ewa Mazierska)
(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) In the early 1980s, when I was in the last year of secondary school in Toruń, a historic city in northern Poland, I was asked to …