At the note of an owl’s hoot, a field mouse is made into a packet for its suffering. & here I set to nonsense, boiling a house worth of …
The Anchoress (Robyn Cadwallader)
I had always wanted to be a jongleur, to leap from the shoulders of another, to fly and tumble, to dare myself in thin air with nothing but my arms …
Bit By Bloody Bit (David Adès)
Bitten once bitten a second time I averted my face …
The Family Files (Rebecca Jessen)
The Magic Mile We lived at the end of the magic mile, bordering a dense forest of trees; if you ended up at the Sizzler, you’d gone too far. Lansdowne …
Three Poems for Ariel (Justin Lowe)
Parvenu like all self-made men I carry the hallmark of earlier experiments. cavernous days, ghosts rattling their chains in my pocket, the haunted smile of a man caught rifling through …
What Lies at the Core of a Successful Family: Nigel Featherstone’s The Beach Volcano
Review by Amanda Hickey The Albury family of Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay are about money and social standing, and although they appear prickly and self-absorbed, it is the father’s eightieth birthday …
Art of Deconstruction (Julie Maclean)
Such a little room line by line to keep my honeyeaters in Walls held by feather and spit If I feed them enough I will be reborn able to hold …
Daddy and Arnold (Charles Bane, Jr.)
I can tell you this because my father’s gone. I was lawyering in Chicago when I got a phone call that my Dad was dying. The caller told me that …
Concourse for the Borroloola mob (Phillip Gijindarraji Hall)
In my troopie dodging dogs, ditches and broken bikes I’m at a camp of concrete blocks, crushed soft drink cans and verandas strewn with mattresses: here each building’s bound …
The Stars 2015 — Verity La Style (Rachael Nielsen)
CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): You’ve turned having a lot of dreams but no outcomes into an art. But of course you’ve made no art. You approach everything like …