ALEC PATRIC An American living in Australia (for me at least) always provokes the question, why? If I wonder at this question, perhaps it’s because the United States of America …
Evergrey (Kirk Marshall)
There is a tree; the squirrels know this. You could professionally train a red-kneed bird-eating spider to locate it by scent, but still the bulbous globe of the huntress would …
Enter Sol (Sam van Zweden)
The birds know – There’s no lying to them. With the creaking of the cosmic pulley Which brings us the sun, Accusatory fingers of night-cloaked branches Point to the …
The Haze and Hard Burn of Nathan Curnow
Alec Patric: Everyone knows Nathan Curnow, nationally acclaimed poet. Tell me about Nathan Curnow, the playwright. Nathan Curnow: I’ve been writing plays for as long as I’ve been writing poetry, …
THE HAZE AND BURN: an interview with Nathan Curnow
ALEC PATRIC Everyone knows Nathan Curnow, nationally acclaimed poet. Tell me about Nathan Curnow, the playwright. NATHAN CURNOW I’ve been writing plays for as long as I’ve been writing poetry, …
man with gun (Eric Dando)
john is into guns. it is all he talks about. he subscribes to gun magazines. the type that have pictures of guns in them. sometimes the magazines have free …
The Mudda (Alan Gould)
Poets are born, they say, not made. By the time of my own birth I was an over-cooked baby, having dallied in the interior of The Mudda for week after …
THE DEEPEST ENCHANTMENT: an interview with Alan Gould
Alan Gould is one of those rare – and utterly intriguing – literary beasts: an accomplished poet and an accomplished novelist. His latest novel, The Lakewoman, was short-listed for …
A Little Trap Door Opens, Silence (Colin James)
Is that you God loitering in the begonias behind old man Kebler’s barn? the trails there are endless labyrinths of cruelty to their friends if you lay low, the …