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Writing from Awe (Anne Walsh)

Ice Breaker I step onto ice I know will break but sometime it has to.                               …

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Anne Walsh

Parts of An Enticing, Profit-less Whole: Finlay Lloyd’s Smalls

Review by Nigel Featherstone It is a widely held view that the publishing industry is currently going through a rough patch. Or, to put it more dramatically, it is in …

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Carmel BirdCassandra AthertonFINLAY LLOYD "SMALLS" Numbers 7-10Nigel FeatherstonePaul McDermottPhillip StamatellisTimothy Morrell

A Nurse’s Meditations in the Sluice Room (Louise McKenna)

Your contempt is like a needle waved in my face. Do I distress you because I don’t wear stockings or an apron pinned below my breasts? Do I bother you …

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Louise McKenna

A Reluctant Sale (Hayley Scrivenor)

He mentions within the first few minutes he is a lawyer.  That’s why he can be trusted, he says, because he has a reputation to protect. Personally, I always think there is …

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Hayley Scrivenor

Langkawi airport (Amy Hilhorst)

On the wall at gate 4 a Malaysian flag hangs sideways, lower rod displaced and scrunched at the bottom, where the stripes stretch furthest from the star. Couples compare passport …

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Amy Hilhorst

Urban Alphabet (Kristen Roberts)

A is for ‘orses. And cows. But there aren’t any horses or cows around here, so people use it to mulch their flower beds instead. B is for honey. Not …

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Kristen Roberts

YOU CAN BE CRUEL TO A BEE (Lizz Murphy)

  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 …

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Lizz Murphy

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 …

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Days of Wine and BruisesJustin Lowe

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 …

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2016 Sydney International Women's Poetry & Arts FestivalMichele Seminara

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 …

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Nathanael O'Reilly
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