Let It Not Be This (Jen Chen)

Long Bay Hospital On the first visit to my client, not guilty by reason of mental illness, Long Bay Hospital extracted biometrics for their security system, digital fingerprints and snaps …

Clytemnestra (Justin Lowe)

those gleaming vessels of fate   the well-lived the sanctified   bestowed the luxury of a death off-stage   a servant’s scream from the wings   those parvenus who don’t carry …

Sea Country (Sophie Finlay)

wax and wane deep in the trench ancient reefs lie submerged — their skeletons remember when the cryosphere stretched taut over continents these drowned cities gleam grey like marcasite — …

Bug pond (Carl Walsh)

Algae rusts the surface Daring us to become water treaders and step A water boatman sculls over the water — Charon ferrying dead souls Of needlebugs and backswimmers  In absentia, …