Artist’s Statement These abstract photographs are from an ongoing series entitled Postcards—based on the notion that the individual is a world of its own. The work serves as an aesthetic …
Breathing Machine: a memoir stopped here (Carol Major)
In December 1999 the earth spun toward a great shadow marking the end of a millennium and those who relied on mechanical timekeeping began to stack tinned goods into cupboards, …
Come inside (Saddiq Dzukogi)
A Small Bridge My body becomes a room no one lives in while I wait to read it to myself at the courtyard, standing before a plant wrapped in my …
The Black War Thesis (David Thomas Henry Wright)
‘This is clearly an important subject, but – and I don’t mean to be rude – why does your particular project matter?’ asked Professor McCombe, the Associate Dean of the …
Mr. Hyde’s Lament (Beth Gordon)
Mr. Hyde’s Lament I survived radiation poisoning, religious crimes, crawled from under a rock to weather paperwork the consistency of thickly polluted waves, learned to swim with seeping wounds, learned …
One Who Stays at Home
(Rijn Collins)
The Spanish photographer only lasted three days. His hands shook as he loaded up the rental car. We all came out to watch him leave, not quite believing he was serious. …
Sestinas (Pete Spence)
Variations on a Theme a serpentine trail through the day no straight lines between the dots clotting up the veneer and pageantry and hoops of thickening sound like varnished shadows …
Like Light (Jayne Marshall)
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) My head is full of metaphors for him. His proximity pulls down hard on my stomach, the solid ground spins beneath me, a face travels slowly …
2017 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its third year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers. All the paintings used in the competition are personally …
Paean to a 1996 Psychotic Breakdown (Ariel Riveros Pavez)
Endless digging like a clown in any Shakespeare play. When psuche realised that she breathed with the plant time became a taught rope of sense and nonsense and happiness and …