I’m convinced of it, but of course I know how it looks, the oven, the gas, the history of clinical depression. Incontrovertible evidence shows she’d left her husband, taken their …
In the Hills, On the Shore (Patricia Russo)
In the hills overlooking the sea, she is chopping and stirring. She sends a message in the wind: In half one hour the evening meal will be ready. Meanwhile the …
Dali and the Department of War (Tim Slade)
A metal beak opens: rewriting history, hairpin maneuvers of flight, sparrows nest peacefully inside a dead motor. The sparrows work, a little sunshine now, as the morning pours anti-freeze green— …
WINGSPAN: A Festschrift for Robert Adamson
Almost Once Devin Johnston The moment you died, the day turned sideways, no longer moving in any direction, the winter sunlight fossilized. I wandered Surry Hills beneath the flow of …
Anxiety is a Dumpster Fire: A One-Breath Exorcism (Alise Blayney)
The Lexicon of Losing It Ang‑zhy‑i‑tee for brekky / panic on toast / doom scrolling in the bloodstream — the body already an altar of sparks / angor‑animi / Cassandra …
Fitzroy North 3068 (Yvette Henry Holt)
Heresy Her\sea Just as sea urchins are aligned with the biological calling of a mustardy full moon rising so too are poetesses, beneath nocturnal shoreline floorboards we gather like alphabetical …
Treading Water (Caroline Reid)
I On average there are 2.59 people in an Australian household. On average there are eight peas in a pod. Some days I’m the biggest pea. On average I shame …
/PRAYER.BIN: Fragmented Liturgies for the Digital Soul (Brentley Frazer)
1_The Simulacrum of Thunder I. The Burial [Magnetic Ghost-Scripts] Magnetic tape unspools_ a blackened vein red dirt drenched in digital rain beneath the …
Love in Abundance and Decay: Vessels of Love 2026 Poetry and Films
Vessels of Love is an annual poetry program presented by Poetry Sydney that seeks to explore ideas and forms of love over the week of Valentine’s Day, 8-14 February. The …
A Woman Talks to Her Tongue (Alison Gorman)
A Woman Talks to Her Tongue 1. Sometimes I wonder if the cat has caught you, swallowed you like an …