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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …