At the festival I saw Bukowski’s bluebird tattooed on a shapely leg, YAWP on an inner wrist. I’m sure it’s important to know we must write so as not to …
An Imitation of Catullus (Ben Hession)
My dear, you have no ethical dealer – if you must make him a lover, be honest: your heart will simply whore you, short changing your dignity. But you’re a …
Black Pomegranate (Saba Vasefi)
In my father’s garden you pick a black pomegranate and when I open my pocket for you to place the fruit there, you look at me with a fervent stare. You …
Pachinko Sunsets and Concrete Flamingos: poems by David Gilbey and Mark Roberts
Australian Studies Conference, Hachioji, Tokyo (David Gilbey) There are no seats on the shinkansen to Tokyo so I stand for 300 kilometres, suspended, at more than 200 kph, clambering the …
Claiming Ground in the Imagination of Place: Martin Langford’s Ground
Ground is Martin Langford’s latest book and it features on its cover a black-and-white photograph of cloud. In choosing this clever image, Puncher & Wattmann’s cover designer Matthew Holt is …
Cheep Cheep (David Adès)
Maybe all the pin-downable things have been pinned, framed on walls like a collector’s set of old butterflies, and we can all regress now in a stew of ancient enmities, …
Sydney International Women’s Poetry & Arts Festival 2016
Sydney International Women’s Poetry & Arts Festival joins with the Women Poets International Movement (MPI) for the third year in a row to bring the Woman Scream Festival 2016 to …
Matt & Tess in the Wild Weather: Poems by Les Wicks
Matt in The Wild Weather My Summer sits in silence. She wears this pet name like I have the power to give it, Tess is rolling familiar smoke I query …
Mr In-between (Brian Young) & The Straight Road Story (Namall Manu)
Mr In-between by Brian Young (edited by Phillip Hall) White trash, black trash, that in-between one brown one trash You tell me, what fuck am I??!!! Might have been stolen …
IT’S TIME TO PUT OUR FEET UP!
Yep, it’s nearly Christmas, and this weary editor is looking forward to lying screen-free on a beach for a few blissful weeks. But first, a HUGE thanks to all our …