Edited by Robyn Cadwalader In this consistently strong collection Janine Leane takes us on a journey. The title, Walk Back Over asks us to step back, take another look at …
Animal (Kit Kelen)
a kind of creature my love comes of its own wilderness furry here and there dangling with suspended eye might have been a rock but moves and proves the eye …
Stains on a Map (Linda Godfrey)
too late to hill up asparagus to blanch it, to drink tea in a Russian port in winter, torpedo the Atlantic. Reflux stains the map with the telling of your …
Migraine (Stuart Barnes)
A pain in the neck. Brume spuming at the eye’s dead centre, odd digits prodding sockets, inner ear’s even keel. Eely fevers no anal -gesic can truly cure. Half-mask …
Man out of Time (Justin Lowe)
he was everyone’s friend everyone’s confidante he slotted in nicely under a crooked arm he was a kind of bellwether people would cross the room to greet him they always …
yūgen (Jan Dean)
almost me, almost you imagine you were meant to be half of two but disturbance caused absorption a rush of …
A Series of Scenarios in the Place of the Mad
(Colin Hambrook)
Fish Eye and The Mirror He is thrown into a gap, down to the centre of the earth, opening like a womb down to the core of creation. And all …
Leave you shoes here (Claire Rosslyn Wilson)
Artist’s statement ‘Leave you shoes here’ is a video-poem that has gathered together images, sounds and text from both Barcelona and Australia, layering one on top of another in order …
Inside my head (Susan Hawthorne)
for my father Inside my head are patterns a quilt of paddocks seen from the cockpit of the Tiger Moth the coastline is drawn in waves, crumpled like silk maps …
Fortune-telling (Eileen Chong)
All night I dreamed of my home, of the roads that are so long and straight they die in the middle— …