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— …
To Miscarry a Moon (Ojo Taiye)
ELEGY FOR CLAUDIA PATRICIA GOMEZ GONZALEZ* i- every poem i write is about the same grief: how ordinary it is to want the American dream. i don’t know what Gomez …
Leaving (Nathan Curnow)
The Leaving Poem pack it all up, my love we’ll go to that place beyond them let them sleep and forget about us leave the key in the spot, they’ll …
The Dingo’s Noctuary (Judith Nangala Crispin)
Vision 2 (from The Dingo’s Noctuary) The Mongrels I have no memory of waking. An awareness slowly formed in the dark — scratching acacia, the strum of powerlines in wind. There …
Faust: and now, here I am what I am, and I don’t think I am something else (Juan Garrido Salgado)
Faust: and now, here I am what I am, and I don’t think I am something else I think I’m writing a poem about nothing, for no one. I do …
Apparitions
(Anthony Lawrence)
The Brindle Horses The brindle horses have been put out to pasture wearing their golden plumes. In certain light they appear as muscled apparitions out of a pop-up book for …