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, …
DIG (Miguel Jacq)
it is the duty of parents to name you, to store read-only instinct in your shell of foreign flesh. this seems disruptive at first but I go naturally, native to …
SILENT AS A LANTERN (Stephen Oliver)
Flame is cupola. See it erupt from shock-blown window frames of tall buildings. Boisterous as applause exploding from theatre galleries. Observe flame’s upward curve, elegant as the carved prows of …
Not the 3:30pm Nightly News! (Robin Reich)
There’s been a massive sell-off overnight in hectopascals, with community profit-takers acknowledging that the boys did good. The meanings of specific words have been reversed, precipitating a quest for …
Maintaining the Strange Fire: David Stavanger’s The Special and Rob Walker’s tropeland
Review by Lucy Alexander David Stavanger is also Ghostboy… or Ghostboy is also David Stavanger — whichever way you like to approach it, they are both responsible for the poems …
balloons (Rose Hunter)
like balloons, we were way up there then gone. it was not incremental. that first night (or was it second) any case, tacos de pastor and tell me about yourself; …