first beat of spring careening down chimney full bore into wall, window pane, again again. daylight moth snared by sun – carry on in vain til spent; flaring, failing filament …
manifest (Melinda Smith)
If you must make me, draw me forth through that needle’s eye have a care for this raw skin what abrades it, how it may be sliced and sutured I …
Forecast (Jamie Alcock)
I am under the silence of a silent migraine yet before me are seas of blessed days. click. In the future eagles nest in cardboard boxes and women …
Rabbit on the Promenade (Ariel Riveros Pavez)
Rabbit on the Promenade in homage to JS Harry Umwelt of responses and in the substrates below a silt of muted action. There are inaudible gasps bouncing in echo chambers …
Trainwreck (Miguel Jacq)
Worlds away in the grey harbour of St Nazaire my second cousin reveals railway tracks encased inside shipyard walls — an over-engineered defence of resolute rust; the only steadfast structure …
Bivouac (Charlotte Guest)
The terms of our arrangement are revised every three days. You trace my bones, protruding through my skin, as we recap the clauses, their causes, and intended effects. Let’s press …
How to live in a world that is burning (Omar Sakr)
1. there are many kinds of vision. 2. the nurse said getting glasses has been on her to-do list since 2008 It’s a long list but also, the world is …
Winter (K W George)
A man in a black suit on a white windswept beach. Wind snatching an umbrella, turning it into a batwing. Hands so cold and trembling fingers don’t work. Tingly feeling …
Token (Anne Elvey)
A scale catches the light. A gold coin and a gold fish flash in the moat of a university house. I am torn by this writing whiteness, the attempt to …
2016 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
The Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its second year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers. All the paintings used in the competition are personally selected by …