Under the transmitter towers a papaya garden receiving rain. A thousand silent swallows came. From you, no message. Feeling for the right stone in opaque water — fish-trap building. Banana tree — …
FEELING PLACE: SLOW-TIME ON COUNTRY. Jeanine Leane Reviews Phillip Hall’s Fume
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader In 2011, Phillip Hall was, in his own words, ‘offered the opportunity of a lifetime, to work in remote Indigenous education’. His collection of non-fiction poetry …
Wishbone
(Emily Crocker)
Taking your hip bones from the countertop I wish to clothe you from the linen cupboard. Organic bamboo. Modern greys. …
All Flesh
(Ben Brooker)
‘We should give it a name,’ Angela said. Her mother blinked at her. ‘You said “it”.’ ‘What?’ ‘If it’s an “it”, how come it needs a name?’ Angela, not knowing …
An Abyss of Feathers
(Anne Elvey)
memorial coin a rainbow of magic possums plays ring-a-rosie on the $2 coin she passes for the boat ride to free- dom saying listen listen to me listen to the …
Book of Colours
(Robyn Cadwallader)
The cross had just enough lacework and carving to give space for his hands and feet, and despite his aching clumsiness he climbed up as far as he could for …
Observance (Anne Casey)
To stand naked on cold stone Emptied cups cascading Past unblinded eyes As hands and feet are washed Within a sea concentric circles pooled As beneath the welling surface A …
The Biker King of Contract Bridge
(Catherine Harris)
(edited by Kathryn Hummel) Andrew Mill is a motorbike-riding, Champion Ruby-smoking Gold Grand Master and contract bridge teacher. He is sixty years old, gets around on a black 2015 Triumph …
Selective Mutism
(Alison Bennett)
she is fight or flight volcanic dynamite a raging accident that was never meant to happen so she begins to swallow her voice into pretend smiles her body now a …
Removing Blood Stains
(Amy T Matthews)
(edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) 1. Exsanguination. Ex – out of. Sanguis – blood. To bleed out. 2. It takes up to fifteen minutes to bleed out. 3. Felix Baumgartner fell …