Taxi! by Brenda Saunders I met her at the lights with six plastic bags Food bought at Woollies with a Salvo’s card making for the taxis on Pitt and Park …
Efficiency (Chelsea Avard)
Edited by Omar J. Sakr Monday. Eleven PM. Time to sleep. Today has gone well. As close to perfect as any flawed day can go. And all the days are …
SONGS OF TRUTH AND PASSION: an interview with John Stokes
In Canberra, among the crowds at a poetry event (indeed any kind of literary happening) there is likely to be a man, a particular man, who goes about his …
The Special (David Stavanger)
the Psychiatrist the Psychiatrist can sign you away the Psychiatrist can give you a script or several pills depending on the diagnosis pills to start having an erection again pills …
The Flu Hour (Douglas Luman)
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 …