The wind scrapes ripples into the water’s surface and for an instant it has a pattern of corrugated iron like the roof of a house. Under full sun, the water …
yūgen (Jan Dean)
almost me, almost you imagine you were meant to be half of two but disturbance caused absorption a rush of …
A Series of Scenarios in the Place of the Mad
(Colin Hambrook)
Fish Eye and The Mirror He is thrown into a gap, down to the centre of the earth, opening like a womb down to the core of creation. And all …
Leave you shoes here (Claire Rosslyn Wilson)
Artist’s statement ‘Leave you shoes here’ is a video-poem that has gathered together images, sounds and text from both Barcelona and Australia, layering one on top of another in order …
Inside my head
(Susan Hawthorne)
for my father Inside my head are patterns a quilt of paddocks seen from the cockpit of the Tiger Moth the coastline is drawn in waves, crumpled like silk maps …
Fortune-telling (Eileen Chong)
All night I dreamed of my home, of the roads that are so long and straight they die in the middle— …
My Mother (Taylor Croteau)
I am the same age my mother was when she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I am the same age my mother was the first time she tried to kill me. …
To Miscarry a Moon (Ojo Taiye)
ELEGY FOR CLAUDIA PATRICIA GOMEZ GONZALEZ* i- every poem i write is about the same grief: how ordinary it is to want the American dream. i don’t know what Gomez …
Within the Filipino Diasporic Cloud (Eileen R. Tabios)
From ‘PILIPINZ CLOUDYGENOUS’ (2018-2019): a Poetry and Visual Art Installation by Eileen R. Tabios You leave the land of your ancestors and your birth. In the 20th and 21st century, …
Afterburn (Kylie Hough)
Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne I lie on a queen mattress covered in red peonies in a darkened room, looking up at the still ceiling fan. I can make out three …