The Burroughs from Snowy River Burroughs of the Overflow Burrough’s Five Heys *Cut-ups sourced from The Man from Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow by A.B Paterson, Five Bells by Kenneth …
Professional Conduct
(Phillip Hall)
Professional Conduct After Jan Senbergs, ‘Otway Night’ With all the swagger of Buckley’s and none I bark my soprano cacophony, like a howling jackass, anchoring a calling to be needed, …
The Inexplicable Hardness of Things (Ian Gibbins)
Our location indeterminate: disused Mechanics’ Institute, unlocked shipping container, crushed metal path beside the bus lane or upgraded City Bypass. “It doesn’t matter […static…] you decide.” Fairy floss hair in …
TRUTH IN THE CAGE
(Mohammad Ali Maleki)
You can find my whole life in my poems like a letter to God — Mohammad Ali Maleki Translated by Manus Island detainee Mansour Shoushtari Edited by Michele Seminara and Marilyn …
family portrait (Dave Drayton)
at first we were individual laugh at a cherub flashing gang signals so young that an assistant had to fold & knot those chubby thighs cross-legged but once the count …
SHAPING THE FRACTURED SELF (editor: Heather Taylor Johnson)
Axiology (Anne M Carson) ‘There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen If I was ceramic I’d be kintsukuroi, pottery which has been …
A Sorry Memento, or Sorry Lamento (Teena McCarthy)
The night bird sings its mourning song. The day beckons, light through shadow. It feels hollow but sinks me and a kind of weight follows reaching into every crevice. ‘Don’t …
POETRY IN THE MINEFIELDS (Iraqi poets translated by Haider Catan and Tim Heffernan)
(edited by Ramon Loyola & Michele Seminara) An Extract from the Introduction to The Poetry in the Minefields By Abdulrahman Almajedi, Iraqi journalist and poet living in the Netherlands Organizers of …
How to Knit a Human (Anna Jacobson)
Cravings I don’t wear a watch in hospital. I count time by meals. A nurse hands me a Milky Way bar after ECT. I hold it in my lap; look …
The Lumen Seed (Judith Crispin)
The Lumen Seed opens onto an apocalyptic scene. A hardwood mulga tree, reaching for the sky, holds a placard: “The Lord’s Return is Near”. In Coober Pedy, a curved handmade …