1 As I drive down Selkirk road for the first time in months, the thing that strikes me most is the number of cattle I see; on both sides of …
Set Me Free (Jalal Mahamede)
COURT Judge: What’s your name? Accused: Human. Judge: Who are your parents? Accused: Neither mother nor father. Judge: Place of birth? Accused: Paradise that has turned to ruins. Judge: Family …
Spirit of Renewal Poetry Reading
Welcome to SPIRIT OF RENEWAL, the Manly Art Gallery and Museum Poetry Alive Reading. This annual event, a synergy of art and poetry, is now in its 7th year. In …
Something In Your Eyes (Kween G)
Artist’s Statement ‘Something in Your Eyes’ is about identifying when someone has been affected by traumatic times. A rise of consciousness is needed in order to identify and recognise our …
Count the Ways (Linda Godfrey)
My Grandmother’s Rifle Reading at the breakfast table, I turn to the book pages and there’s a complaint from a reviewer. Modern poetry is all about the small incidents from …
The Yellow Scarf (Gay Lynch)
‘The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it’ — Oscar Wilde, The Critic as an Artist (1891) Yellow is bold, resistant and grievous. Yellow is fat with …
OPENING THE INNER EYE: Anne Casey’s ‘the light we cannot see’
Review by Wendy J Dunn Edited by Robyn Cadwallader We surface abruptly Somewhere between the third and fourth stages, …
The Mask’s Weight (Amanda Anastasi)
Artist’s Statement ‘The Mask’s Weight’ is a poem written during the COVID-19 pandemic and during Melbourne 6th COVID lockdown. It explores the idea that wearing a mask is a lesser restriction …
Let It Not Be This (Jen Chen)
Long Bay Hospital On the first visit to my client, not guilty by reason of mental illness, Long Bay Hospital extracted biometrics for their security system, digital fingerprints and snaps …
We All Have Our Stories to Tell: DIVING INTO GLASS by Caro Llewellyn reviewed by Samantha Connor
Review by Samantha Connor Edited by Robyn Cadwallader George Orwell once famously said, ‘Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful’. It’s why I read Diving into …