Although I grew up in Australia, I was born in a rural part of Greece, in the region of Macedonia. The northern regions of Macedonia, Thessaly and Thrace were hit …
Little Key (Judy Johnson)
It could be almost anywhere in the Middle East. The result of war or famine or …
Shanghai Street Photography (Brenton Rossow)
Brenton Rossow is a filmmaker, poet, and musician, who has returned to Perth, Western Australia after 14 years in South East Asia. He recently produced a feature length documentary called Shanghainese …
My Father’s Shopping List (Mark O’Flynn)
The trouble with having a doctor for a father is that you are brought up calling a spade a spade. Or more accurately a spatula a spatula, a scalpel a …
Java Suite (Mike Ladd)
Under the transmitter towers a papaya garden receiving rain. A thousand silent swallows came. From you, no message. Feeling for the right stone in opaque water — fish-trap building. Banana tree — …
FEELING PLACE: SLOW-TIME ON COUNTRY. Jeanine Leane Reviews Phillip Hall’s Fume
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader In 2011, Phillip Hall was, in his own words, ‘offered the opportunity of a lifetime, to work in remote Indigenous education’. His collection of non-fiction poetry …
Wishbone
(Emily Crocker)
Taking your hip bones from the countertop I wish to clothe you from the linen cupboard. Organic bamboo. Modern greys. …
All Flesh
(Ben Brooker)
‘We should give it a name,’ Angela said. Her mother blinked at her. ‘You said “it”.’ ‘What?’ ‘If it’s an “it”, how come it needs a name?’ Angela, not knowing …
An Abyss of Feathers
(Anne Elvey)
memorial coin a rainbow of magic possums plays ring-a-rosie on the $2 coin she passes for the boat ride to free- dom saying listen listen to me listen to the …
Book of Colours
(Robyn Cadwallader)
The cross had just enough lacework and carving to give space for his hands and feet, and despite his aching clumsiness he climbed up as far as he could for …