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No Shelter (Andy Jackson)

Floating home from a poetry reading, fog and who I am closing in as I walk forward, I am still visible. A mostly full stubbie of beer, VB I suspect, …

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Among the RegularsAndy JacksonNo Shelter

Shopping for Girls (Tiggy Johnson)

It’s too late to get my daughter newborn stilettos a baby makeover cotton crop bras in size 0 or a romper to claim her daddy just wanted a blowjob. Perhaps …

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Australian poetryTiggy Johnson

What We’ve Done (A.S. Patric)

 so we took the rhyme out of poetry and the reason out of song we took rhythm out of voices chose flat, unpretentious faces and smiled in ways and days …

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A.S. PatricAustralian poetry
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  • Home
  • About
    • The Journal
    • An editorial-shaped box
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  • Vault
    • Fiction
      • Lies to Live By
      • Being Sure
    • Interviews
      • Lighthouse Yarns
    • Non Fiction
      • Rogue State
      • Verity La Forum
    • Poetry
      • Heightened Talk
      • Spoken Word
    • Reviews
      • Through the Looking Glass
    • Projects
      • Black Cockatoo
      • Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project
      • Discoursing Diaspora
      • Disrupt
      • Out of Limbo
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