Interviewer: Alec Patric This is the nightmare. You write your first novel. You pour everything you have into it, from raw talent to wild hope. You finish this novel and …
FROM THE EMERGENCY: an interview with Sunil Badami
ALEC PATRIC This is the nightmare. You write your first novel. You pour everything you have into it, from raw talent to wild hope. You finish this novel and a …
The Circumstances of a Book: a review by Geoff Page
Poems from the City: A London Interlude. By Ed Byrne. Melbourne University Publishing. pp 160. $24.99 * It’s rare that the circumstances of a book’s publication are more interesting than …
The Circumstances of a Book: Ed Byrne’s Poems from the City
Review by Geoff Page It’s rare that the circumstances of a book’s publication are more interesting than the book itself but, sadly, this is the case with Ed Byrne’s Poems …
Definitions of Phone on the Web (Shannon McKeogh)
He calls her sad like a heart-beat shiver cold, damp socks from walking on the squishy squash of slugs grudges like the smiles on cigarette packets tar, yellow-coated rot …
Abandoned Cubby Huts: Dreaming and Decay (Daniel Armstrong)
Artist’s Statement The cubby hut is an archetypal structure, a place of imagination, dreams, refuge and adventures. It is ephemeral by nature, both physically and psychologically, as it passes from …
MOUNTING THE FIGHT: an interview with Anthony Macris
With the release of his latest book, you could be forgiven for thinking that more than a decade in academia teaching aspiring writers the fundamentals of literary theory, and writing …
Bonfire (Vicki Thornton)
from that first delicate flame circling match dry twigs curling over branches hissing sap snaps and cracks as it forces itself upon the dead then fire surges snakes over …
The Biggest Love (Krissy Kneen)
No one could ease the pain he felt, had been feeling for too long now. She raised an eyebrow as he entered the kitchen, held her breath. She could smell …
ECSTATIC GIFTS: an interview with Krissy Kneen
ALEC PATRIC Do women like sex? That’s the headline on a fashion magazine I saw this morning. I didn’t pick it up so I don’t know how they answered. I’m …