Review by Lucy Alexander It’s striking that the works of hip-hop artist and Australian Poetry Slam champion Omar Musa and prize-winning contemporary poet and novelist Judy Johnson reflect so well …
Visitors (Tony Walton)
They come for you- in old fashioned hats, from where you don’t know, to fuck you hard against every wall you’ve built up. They know how to pick all …
My own private apocalypse (Oliver Driscoll)
I start with the irises. My sister-in-law was here on the weekend and called them chrysanthemums but she did not explain why. Later I eradicate the years between 1768 and …
Change and Damage Beyond Belief: Judith Wright’s The Coral Battleground
Review by Tristan Foster Let’s talk, briefly, about fights. Humans love a fight – fighting is among the first things we do: the fight for breath, for attention, the fight …
Apocrypha (Gregory Horne)
After Bugs Bunny in Drag the first real girl I loved sat at the end of the last pew in St Lawrence’s. Next to her, her jet black mother, a …
An Impulse / Action (Robbie Coburn)
Woodstock- struck by winter a cold wind breaks up the sky. cold /makes decisions (ending) a shade of frost descended on the grasses. to the west a light beyond the …
Gathering Experience, Thought, Love and Craft: Janet Galbraith’s re-membering
Review by Robyn Cadwallader On the second page of Janet Galbraith’s first poetry collection, re-membering, there is a definition, a kind of sub-title: ‘to both remember what has been and …
Jimmy Watson’s (Nathanael O’Reilly)
Last time I saw you during the autumn of ninety-two we got drunk at Jimmy Watson’s celebrating your girlfriend’s twentieth You wore your t-shirt inside out making some kind of …
8am (Yolande Norris)
8am at the lights on a wave of fuming plastic, new car smell the son is young and beautiful, dead-eyed out the window Yolande Norris is a writer and producer based …
Breathing significant life into proceedings: Robert Harris’ An Officer and a Spy
Review by Robert Goodman The blurb for An Officer and a Spy refers to its subject – the Dreyfus Affair – as ‘the most famous miscarriage of justice in history’. …