(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 …
Paean to a 1996 Psychotic Breakdown (Ariel Riveros Pavez)
Endless digging like a clown in any Shakespeare play. When psuche realised that she breathed with the plant time became a taught rope of sense and nonsense and happiness and …
Tide (Jo Langdon)
‘I just want to remember / in full, ugly color’ — Emily O’Neill How it felt held under the pier then released like trash; the words that came after — ‘at …