ALEC PATRIC Alice Gage created and edits Ampersand, a biannual literary journal deeply informed by visual art. I’ve always been interested in these intersections of text and image. Cinema’s moving images have …
(Agnieszka Niemira)
through the sound of snow chochoły* dancing in my past in my future (* Stanisław Wyspiański ‘Wesele’)
Blood (Simonne Michelle-Wells)
After twelve years of marriage his fishing hat, which sits forgotten on my armoire, is all that remains. The house creaks and groans, trying to establish a new order. The …
Unroadworthy Love (Demet Divaroren)
We can’t take it for a drive, it’s leaking in three places But it’s smooth to touch The engine’s faulty, it needs a service But it sounds so good …
Shank’s Mare (Shane Jesse Christmass)
O boring dudes step away from the bar & let the rest of us get to the Brandy Stop holding aloof over the full ashtray Fuck off you fops, …
Chapter One: Early Fragments (Glenda Guest)
Gordon and Dorothy She was sixteen and at a dance when she saw him. It was, she said, like the song, across a crowded room. And I did know immediately …
Invasion (Derek Motion)
1 we’re phantasmagoric & over fed square (post eco parking post an ill-thought dumplings ploy & the odour of spilling soy) even to interiors breasting a ship’s plushie …
Dark Bathroom (Ivy Alvarez)
water fills your mouth as your glass eyes stare from underneath the tap — the old tub holds you cold and mute and your back’s warmth leaches clockwise down the …
Garage [hat] (Ivy Alvarez)
cold creeps in—a song seeps through the cracks it depends on your neck the tie of your knot how your toes swing your fingertips tingle your tongue says the …
AUSTRALIA'S NEW HERO OF MAGIC REALISM: an interview with Glenda Guest
In the literary world there is a propensity for prize-winning authors to be elevated – or to elevate themselves – onto a special pedestal, complete with pretentious black-and-white profile photographs …