In a dream, Batman and Bernini’s St Theresa walked on a long green carpet that stretched across a wide and empty piazza. In the distance the colonnades were filled with …
Roaches Dancing (Joran Monteiro)
the earth is dead and we are all roaches dancing on its coffin until the lights finally die and we realise, with vomit in our nostrils, that the party …
A Moment of Falling (Andrea Goldsmith)
Jack has been hopelessly in love with Ava since they met at university at the age of 18. He is now in his mid-forties. Until the meeting in the excerpt …
THE WELL-EXERCISED IMAGINATION: an interview with Andrea Goldsmith
The official blurb says this: ‘Andrea Goldsmith originally trained as a speech pathologist and was a pioneer in the development of communication aids for people unable to speak. Her first …
Driving Hours (Stu Hatton)
reading dust signatures communication of the road we blur trees ’92 mixtape, landscape mix until we tire of music too-loud talkback vowels when the tape ejects …
NEGOTIATING DEATH: an interview with Ivy Alvarez
ALEC PATRIC We often negotiate with death when we write. There’s a last will and testament to everything we put down to paper. The literary act itself, hands a …
You Were Lost Within My Sights (Lara S. Williams)
We flattened ourselves between the soupy heat shimmer and sharp yellow stalks running down the hill toward Cooma Presbyterian Church. Ants made ladders of our ankles, leaving bubble bites in …
Something took form (Alison Murray)
in Narbonne I listened to a cat scratch of claws on a tiled roof, a storm, the cathedral bells. The death of Rimbaud …
The Decline (Lee Sandwith)
‘For death begins with life’s first breath. And life begins at touch of death.’ John Oxenham
THE TRANSITIONS OF JOSEPHINE ROWE: an interview
ALEC PATRIC Every writer has a muse, whether we put much thought into it or not. When we start out and are struggling to find our creative sources, we run …