Rubber tyre rolls bain-marie aisles grips heavy toddler centrifugally snug three kids run beside reaching pushing scream delight across fluorescent tiles tread bounces down metal staircase arm waves round’n’round …
JUMPING THROUGH AND MANAGING THE TANGLE: an interview with Writing Australia’s Mary Delahunty
The unstoppable Mary Delahunty has been many things. She’s been an award-winning journalist on the ABC’s Four Corners and 7.30 Report programs, as well as on commercial networks. From 1999 …
Fists (Peter Farrar)
Car exhaust unfurls from my neighbour’s garage. I don’t know if they are committing suicide or smoking meat. I roll a cigarette. Have progressed well past a pack a …
The List Grows (Emilie Collyer)
This is what you can’t do. It’s a list that grows. Like that taunt boys used to write on blackboards: the more you rub the bigger it gets. Pink …
One Day in English (Francesca Rendle-Short)
One day in English things did go haywire. The teachers must have known exactly who Glory was the day she arrived. News would have travelled fast around the staffroom …
WRITING IN THE GAP BETWEEN: an interview with Francesca Rendle-Short
Francesca Rendle-Short has been many things in her life: radio producer, editor, art gallery worker, and mother of two now-adult children. She has a Doctor of Creative Arts from the …
Thoroughly modern poets in triptych: 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 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 …