With the open eave of her scarf she catches the tree snags blue winter Skylight ceiling of criss and cross In the naming of them colours empty of themselves …
Days of Wine and Bruises (Justin Lowe)
God Drinks at the Sandringham (from From Church to Alice, 1996) He usually comes to sit by me in the grainy light of 4 o’clock He will often sit on His …
A Review of the 2016 Sydney International Women’s Poetry & Arts Festival
by Michele Seminara One of the major feminist festivals in Sydney, the third annual International Women’s Poetry and Arts Festival took place at NSW Parliament House on March 16. The …
Border Crossings (Nathanael O’Reilly)
I. Vienna to Brno As we cross the Danube and leave Vienna the guy on my left reads every article in Le Monde about the Paris terror. The girl on my …
QUESTIONING MASCULINITY, VIOLENCE, AND ADVENTURE: an interview with Adrian Caesar
Adrian Caesar is an Australian writer with a terrific literary capacity, an engaging warmth and wit, and a deep sense of humanity. Born in the United Kingdom, Caesar emigrated to …
water weight (Emily Crocker)
the Baptist plunged her delicate but thorough into the waves rinsing wine dregs from her glass stem core contaminating the ocean with thoughts it’ll never be big enough for us …
Project Bali (Alice Allan)
(edited by Jillian Schedneck) Smiles, smiles—how the Balinese can project. – John Olsen, journal entry, September 1973. Mum hadn’t left Australia in 45 years. It took us six months to …
He’s Got Your Number, All Right (Kathryn Hummel)
I said: Sweetie, Baby— what were you thinking when you pulled out that double-headed match and stuffed it right back in the box? Honey! Child! As your Uncle I gotta …
Growth Always Growth (Fabrice Poussin)
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, Eskimo Pie, The Chimes and will appear in other magazines throughout 2016. …
Reasonable Delusions of a Religious Nature (Tim Heffernan)
walking reality or phantasmagoria, desperate love on a rented bed. insanity or elated perception, a numbed litany that will be said. lie that winter freezing on oil stained concrete. …