on the tacit understanding that you will not repeat this to anyone, Artemis walked with me for a while, in the early days when the fire still burned. dust and …
Frowny Face (Shannon Burns)
(Edited by Omar J. Sakr) Mother died today. I got an email. It said, mother passed away funeral tomorrow yours. I thought: Mine? Am I dead too? So here I …
Extracts From a Liar’s Notebook (David Adès)
If you tell the lie, tell it slant but with a direct gaze, with utter conviction, tell it as if you believe it is truth, again and again – and …
Orison for Sheet Music Stores in the American Mid-West (Gregory Horne)
after Kurt Sepmeier’s reading of Michael Drayton’s ‘Since There’s No Help’ * The gasp ‘last!’ long-distance-wise largely because of our situations, po- tentially we knew it was futile and all …
The Hard Earth (Heather Taylor Johnson)
There is a mountain, my son, between us and from this side, here at the bottom where I am dressed appropriately in morning robe, where house mice scurry under the …
THE THINGLINESS OF THINGS: an interview with Jen Webb and Paul Hetherington
The scholar who admits to taking images on her phone when tipsy. The poet who exhibits his work in art galleries. A little capital city that was boldly designed from …
Riding back in the dusk (Anne M Carson)
Malmsbury, Victoria There’s no black like the black of trees silhouetted against sunset; matt, boot-black black. Baked-on Bakelite black, back-lit by the sky’s citrus tones – mandarin, orange and lemon …
In the Beginning was the Word (Joe Nuttall)
When I was about twelve, I went through a brief but intense love affair with particular words. I used to write them, over and over, in different ways, different colours. …
fuel oxygen ignition (Alice Allan)
you’ve mellowed quite a bit your tinsel compliment a night in the country all grown up standing under a floodlight watching hundreds of winged hopefuls fling themselves at the whitegold …
Darlinghurst Nights (Meera Atkinson)
The nights grew hotter and the air faintly sugary. Luna sensed a man just out of range. She waited. And while she waited, she read books from the library, sometimes …