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 — …
HEART’S WORDS IN EXILE: Janet Galbraith Reviews Truth in the Cage by Mohammad Ali Maleki. Plus, a Poetic Film Based on Mohammad’s Poem ‘Brother’, Directed by Siân Darling.
Truth in the Cage, with its very title, immediately claims that what we are hearing is truth. It is a truth that has been caged, a truth that those outside …
My Nana is a Mermaid (Anna Jacobson)
Artist’s Statement This video work was inspired by old photographs I discovered of my nana and grandad when they were young. I was drawn to the photograph of my nana …
Prize Winning Poems from our Black Cockatoo Editors Brenda Saunders & Yvette Henry Holt
Verity La are proud of the achievements of all our fantastic editors. Recently, poems from two of our Black Cockatoo editors, Brenda Saunders and Yvette Henry Holt, placed as Winner & Highly …
A HABIT OF OPENNESS: an interview with Melinda Smith
Having won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call, in a way Melinda Smith needs no introduction. However, in the interests …
The Spirit of Nature 2018 Manly Art Gallery Poetry Alive Reading
What happens when poetry and art mix? Magic, that’s what! On 4 November 2018, twenty poets gathered to read their ekphrastic poems to a full and appreciative house at the …
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 …
Blemished (Andy Jackson)
Blemished from the Rabbinic scriptures and a Buzzfeed article A hunched back could be a misshapen eyebrow. Withered could also be dwarf. Some of our problems are to do with …
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 …