Artist’s Statement ‘Make Me’ is an erotic poem with a developed performance which borrows from Indigenous ceremony and brings in sensuous elements that exemplify the grounded and tactile nature …
Who Is He (And What Is He To You?) (Jesse Rice-Evans)
after Grey’s Anatomy S13E16 If you’re having second thoughts, remember that it happens to all of us: knowing that sitting in windowless rooms becomes normal; the smeared latinate language that …
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. …
An Abyss of Feathers
(Anne Elvey)
memorial coin a rainbow of magic possums plays ring-a-rosie on the $2 coin she passes for the boat ride to free- dom saying listen listen to me listen to the …
Observance (Anne Casey)
To stand naked on cold stone Emptied cups cascading Past unblinded eyes As hands and feet are washed Within a sea concentric circles pooled As beneath the welling surface A …