My Grandmother’s Rifle Reading at the breakfast table, I turn to the book pages and there’s a complaint from a reviewer. Modern poetry is all about the small incidents from …
The Yellow Scarf (Gay Lynch)
‘The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it’ — Oscar Wilde, The Critic as an Artist (1891) Yellow is bold, resistant and grievous. Yellow is fat with …
OPENING THE INNER EYE: Anne Casey’s ‘the light we cannot see’
Review by Wendy J Dunn Edited by Robyn Cadwallader We surface abruptly Somewhere between the third and fourth stages, …
The Mask’s Weight (Amanda Anastasi)
Artist’s Statement ‘The Mask’s Weight’ is a poem written during the COVID-19 pandemic and during Melbourne 6th COVID lockdown. It explores the idea that wearing a mask is a lesser restriction …
Let It Not Be This (Jen Chen)
Long Bay Hospital On the first visit to my client, not guilty by reason of mental illness, Long Bay Hospital extracted biometrics for their security system, digital fingerprints and snaps …
We All Have Our Stories to Tell: DIVING INTO GLASS by Caro Llewellyn reviewed by Samantha Connor
Review by Samantha Connor Edited by Robyn Cadwallader George Orwell once famously said, ‘Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful’. It’s why I read Diving into …
A Father, a Daughter and the Sunshine State (Kylie A Hough)
This is the story I never wanted to write. You, me, and a wound I thought the Sunshine State would heal with grandkids, barramundi and gallons of water under the …
Isolation (Rose Lucas)
Isolation makes me nervous at the edge how will I be who will I be without you …
The Immortals (Jenny Pollak)
Artist’s Statement This video poem is a work that began as an immersive sculptural installation comprised of three video projections falling across the floor, walls and ceiling of the Manly …
Exit (Mohammad Ali Maleki)
Exit Have you ever heard about our years of sorrow? From fear of death we fled our homes for here. We didn’t know we were traveling to the city of …