Getting there This is the morning I wake from a dream of drowning, and wait for what comes next. Someone brings me tea I cannot drink, chocolates made of coconut. …
Walking with Bella (Eileen Chong)
I like to go to the ends of things — …
And Now, Tenderness (David Adès)
And now, tenderness, should it come, should it ever come again, unsolicited, from an unexpected quarter, should it be felt and recognised, will break over me like a wave, dissolving …
Jandamarra (Brenda Saunders)
High walls of sound ring the gorge once more children whisper sacred notes in language sing to heal their wounded land, call up the Unggud Junba. A Great Snake returns …
2018 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its fourth year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon. All the paintings used in the competition …
Painting (Joe Dolce)
She has spread canvas across the long side of the shed, and sits on a low stool, washing blue over white weave. She likes plein air, the humid day cut …
The View From Heaven (Damen O’Brien)
Tickling out of a golden universe, the native bees swarm: spots of ash in a warm wind, migraine patterns dancing. Each tiny tick and tock and black note small as …
Little Key (Judy Johnson)
It could be almost anywhere in the Middle East. The result of war or famine or …
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 — …
Wishbone
(Emily Crocker)
Taking your hip bones from the countertop I wish to clothe you from the linen cupboard. Organic bamboo. Modern greys. …