I Ghosts shift by the road in the moonlight, standing in line, alert. A collision with a kangaroo is not only unpalatable to the kangaroo but is expensive to the …
Eight Rules for Making Fire (Shane Strange)
I watch him through the kitchen window as he cuts the wood, outside, in the cold morning. He has his back to me. I watch as he braces his …
Do You Remember? (Laurie Steed)
It’s fifteen years since the accident and the guy who fell off the ute is back on track. He’s got a job at DPC and has coffee-drinking competitions with a …
THE REACH AND THE ENGAGEMENT: an interview with Rob Spillman
EMILY KIDDELL I heard a rumour that the good people of Tin House might be keen to visit Australia with a version of the increasingly popular Tin House Summer Writers …
A Grave Turn (Ashley Capes)
streets have a saliva sheen, the stones bathing in it. fog is school-pants grey, thick on the tongue. the older trams shudder until they stop and the conductor retires. drunks …
The remembered, the haunted, and the differing (Robyn Cadwallader)
The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, home …
The Remembered, the Haunted, and the Differing: Patricia Sykes’ The Abbotsford Mysteries
Review by Robyn Cadwallader The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford …
The World-Swimmers (Patrick West)
For days now you have been driving across unbroken grassland, which you know you’ll never be able to leave behind forever, no matter how fast you might go, or …
What it’s like to want to write when all they want is for you to sing (JL Shenstone)
There came a time in my life when I had to face the fact that I was never going to relate to most of the population. They go to work, …