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 …
The State of Australian Reality: Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories
Review by David Thomas Henry Wright Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories are both short(er) story collections. Both were published in …
From the Corner of My Eye (Jillian Butler)
If singles’ bars are hell, then lesbian bars are the deepest fucking circle. I was a newbie, a baby Dyke, fresh meat and everyone in the place knew it. In …
MARRIAGE EQUALITY STARS 2017 (Rachael Nielsen)
The Australian people are poised to see if those most comfortable with snail mail will give the freaks permission to get into bed with their heterosexual privilege and allow them …
Tide (Jo Langdon)
‘I just want to remember / in full, ugly color’ — Emily O’Neill How it felt held under the pier then released like trash; the words that came after — ‘at …
BLOOD OATH (Magdalena Ball and Rob Walker)
‘Blood Oath’ is a multimedia collaboration by Magdalena Ball & Rob Walker. (Music credit: ‘Transport to the Heart’ by Martyn Bloor & M Elwell Romancito) Rob Walker and …
To and From Hadamar (Ben Hession)
It was nothing special, really, an overcast bus on a non-descript journey: a sort of euphemistic ride — the white-coated driver, the passengers chattering about simple things, but in a …