bands of earth etch the transantarctic ranges cold geological burials we are linked through the exoskeletal — cambrian shells coil, mineralised bodies, the trilobite and then there is glossopteris — the …
Night Drive (Nike Sulway)
1 In early autumn we are driving home together midnight fog steaming up from some unseen fault in the world the headlights catch at a dead wallaby humped over the …
OCHRE LINES: Us Mob Writing (Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Samantha Faulkner and Lisa Fuller)
(edited by Phillip Hall) Through the looking glass by Kerry Reed Gilbert Creation surrounds me As I walk upon hallowed land Red dirt claims me The sun burns brightly on …
FREE POETRY (Janet Galbraith and Writing Through Fences)
ABOUT FREE POETRY Writing Through Fences is a group made up of writers and artists who are, or have been, detained in Australia’s immigration detention prisons, along with others who …
Antithesis (Michelle Hartman)
Antithesis I am reading Mark Strand’s poem about a man in his bedroom clipping pieces of his body away while he lays there and hums the part of me that …
The running doll (Tricia Dearborn)
the doll in my dream is one of those old-fashioned plastic dolls with arms and legs that move but this doll has no arms no head as it runs, its …
Come inside (Saddiq Dzukogi)
A Small Bridge My body becomes a room no one lives in while I wait to read it to myself at the courtyard, standing before a plant wrapped in my …
Mr. Hyde’s Lament (Beth Gordon)
Mr. Hyde’s Lament I survived radiation poisoning, religious crimes, crawled from under a rock to weather paperwork the consistency of thickly polluted waves, learned to swim with seeping wounds, learned …
Sestinas (Pete Spence)
Variations on a Theme a serpentine trail through the day no straight lines between the dots clotting up the veneer and pageantry and hoops of thickening sound like varnished shadows …
2017 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its third year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers. All the paintings used in the competition are personally …