(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 …
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 …
Lateral Love (Kirli Saunders)
Lateral Love I’ve been looking for lateral love in all its forms hoping to find it pouring from hearts that speak soft encouragement keep going bub praying to see …
FAMILY, SECRETS & SACRIFICE: an interview with Peter Papathanasiou
Peter Papathanasiou is the son of migrants and grandson of refugees. His parents emigrated from Greece to Australia in 1956 but were unable to have children, a huge sorrow — …
Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019
Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize (supported by Southern Cross University) is for poems of up to fifty lines that respond to the theme ‘seeking asylum’. The prize celebrates the …
The Permit (Eran Asoulin)
(edited by Kathryn Hummel) We stopped at a car park on the Israeli side of the Kalandia checkpoint near Jerusalem, through which one must pass in order to enter Ramallah. …
Spirit of Home
On Sunday 10 November, twenty poets gathered at Manly Art Gallery & Museum for the 5th annual Poetry Alive reading to share their original poems responding to the Home Affairs …
memoir (Kaya Lattimore)
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, …