On my bookshelves, after my chronologically ordered issues of Overland, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging etc., after my poetry collections, alphabetised by poet’s surname, sit the anthologies in no particular order …
Thoroughly Modern Poets in Triptych: Blemish Books' Triptych Poets Issue Two
Review by Mark William Jackson On my bookshelves, after my chronologically ordered issues of Overland, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging etc., after my poetry collections, alphabetised by poet’s surname, sit the …
EXPLAINING BEES: an interview with Wayne Macauley
RYAN O’NEILL A few years ago you made a comment about Australian short stories that could be just as well applied to Australian novels, namely that ‘the stuff that gets …
Wrinkled Time (Gabrielle Bryden)
Madeleine L’Engle wrinkled time. crumples, crinkles, dips waves, ripples, loops stringy twirls oscillating tendrils freewheelin’ in non-linear time Breath ceases, baby cries for the first time, life …
Bicycle (Les Zigomanis)
‘You’re stressed,’ my GP told me following a check-up. ‘Is there anything bothering you?’ Bothering me? Hmmm. Let me see. Relationship in the shitter, no social life, and work …
A REINTERPRETATION OF SELF: an interview with Les Zigomanis
BEL WOODS The day I met Les Zig he commented on my left-handedness. He then proceeded to list every left-handed person in the Professional Writing and Editing course we were …
Each morning (Louise Pine)
Each morning I get off the train at Spencer Street station to go to work. I’m part of the crowd that pours out of train carriages onto asphalt platforms, …
The Petrov Poems: Done (Lesley Lebkowicz)
He slides the documents out of the KGB safe into an envelope and settles his future under his shirt – its straight edges buckle against his belly. He buttons …
The Petrov Poems: A charm to keep him safe (Lesley Lebkowicz)
He won’t leave until April the third, the day his successor is due. He’ll tie up all the loose ends and hand over the codes the accounts his notes. …
A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok reviewed by Robert Goodman
AS Byatt, the grand lady of English letters, is best known for her lengthy tomes exploring the minutiae of English life. As she admits in an illuminating afterword to Raganrok, …