(edited by Phillip Hall) Through the looking glass by Kerry Reed Gilbert Creation surrounds me As I walk upon hallowed land Red dirt claims me The sun burns brightly on …
FREE POETRY (Janet Galbraith and Writing Through Fences)
ABOUT FREE POETRY Writing Through Fences is a group made up of writers and artists who are, or have been, detained in Australia’s immigration detention prisons, along with others who …
Antithesis (Michelle Hartman)
Antithesis I am reading Mark Strand’s poem about a man in his bedroom clipping pieces of his body away while he lays there and hums the part of me that …
The Gilded Boy (John Bartlett)
Christ, one minute I’m walking behind Akmal and the next I’m lying on the ground, stunned, covered in dust and blood. His blood. I never understood why there wasn’t a …
The running doll (Tricia Dearborn)
the doll in my dream is one of those old-fashioned plastic dolls with arms and legs that move but this doll has no arms no head as it runs, its …
An Absence of Noise: Stephanie Buckle’s Habits of Silence and Félix Calvino’s So Much Smoke
Review by Kathryn Hummel Edited by Robyn Cadwallader A land as vast as Australia is well-suited to capturing through snapshots, for viewing separately or stitched together in a panorama. In many …
Postcards (Jane Akweley Odartey)
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 …