Review by David Thomas Henry Wright Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Les Wicks’ Getting By Not Fitting In opens with two quotes, one by Mao Tse-tung: ‘All is chaos under the heavens, the …
Triage (Rebecca Jessen)
the kind lady on the end of the line will say this: I have to ask. in the present you wait. yes, I was thirteen, only the one time. yes, …
Earth Apples of Modern Love and Mushrooms (Julie Maclean)
after Marina Abramovic at MOMA They are lying again about Putin’s hacking I return to tears rolling face to face hungry for the strange one to look deep for longer …
Parentheses (Shastra Deo)
stitch our disunion into the gutshot —split my belly, suture. spare me your hand and bandage. kneel: your thighs bracket my hips as you etymologise me. anatomy of my …
The Health Inspectors – Part One (Anthony Macris)
(from an untitled novel in progress) He lies on the worn lino of the living room floor, waiting for his favourite TV show to begin. The room is dark; he …
Canjeera (Deb Wain)
The house is early-morning quiet when Khadro wakes. Light leaks into the room; the moon glows through the poorly curtained window. Nightmares of her past have followed her across borders, …
Shop girl (Bronwyn Lovell)
if you are waiting for the right girl the really truly special one who blows your mind and cock and the girl shop doesn’t have her in yet you can …
Glossopteris (Sophie Finlay)
bands of earth etch the transantarctic ranges cold geological burials we are linked through the exoskeletal — cambrian shells coil, mineralised bodies, the trilobite and then there is glossopteris — the …
Postcards (Jane Akweley Odartey)
Artist’s Statement These abstract photographs are from an ongoing series entitled Postcards—based on the notion that the individual is a world of its own. The work serves as an aesthetic …
Burroughs Does Oz (Joe Dolce)
The Burroughs from Snowy River Burroughs of the Overflow Burrough’s Five Heys *Cut-ups sourced from The Man from Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow by A.B Paterson, Five Bells by Kenneth …