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 …
The Stars December 2015 (Rachael Nielsen)
If there’s a proper time to celebrate romance it’s in the sultry seasons of spring and summer, when sweat once again lubricates our days and even cicadas are preoccupied with …
Eyes as Fire (Peter Mitchell)
A foot floors the accelerator. Flowers of flame blossom on the rocks below. The voices of fame chorus praises: Thelma and Louise become sky riders. Even though the scales of …
The QPF Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award Winners 2015
In 2015 Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) proudly announced the inaugural Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award. This new award is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon, who has agreed …
Excerpts of Escape from a Victorian Asylum: Brief List of Items from the Wellcome Collection (James Walton)
This restless melancholia unsoothed in the application of tubular tobacco rectum smoke wanders from the crying wall searching for the music where Napoleon’s toothbrush strums over Bentham’s skin dancing in …
Shop Til You Drop (Jemma Payne)
It was Dr Hope’s last day in the country. The girl selling necklaces was barely older than his twins. She wore a faded Adidas t-shirt, and when she turned away, …