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 …
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. …