Four Oceans, Toby Davidson’s second collection, confirms his reputation as one of the most expansive and radical voices in the emerging generation of Australian poets. It moves from Western to …
An Interview With Saddiq Dzukogi: Your Crib, My Qibla
Saddiq Dzukogi with Verity La Poetry Editors Michele Seminara and Robbie Coburn Wineglass When your mother found strands of your hair hung up in the teeth of your comb, your …
Clytemnestra (Justin Lowe)
those gleaming vessels of fate the well-lived the sanctified bestowed the luxury of a death off-stage a servant’s scream from the wings those parvenus who don’t carry …
(Motel Ghosts) Audrey Molloy
Motel Ghosts Ever wonder where they go? The souls of the extinct—not the bones of pipistrelles, finer than eyelashes, the rufous down of boobook owls or starry pelts of quolls, …
A Captain’s (Ian Gibbins)
Artist’s Statement “Here again, not well, likely a turnspit, jiggered … whose trajectory scours my sleep? What worriment forths mildewed landsend?” A captain, out on the high seas, on …
Thou Shalt Not Wank (Ali Whitelock)
Artist’s Statement The horrific sex scandals pouring out of Canberra this year (2021) made my blood boil hotter than the planet: the rape allegations, the footage of liberal staffers masturbating …
Mama Said (David Ishaya Osu)
Breakfast Table Mama serves us coffee at night. Not because she wants us to stay awake. Everyone brings a dream to the breakfast table. Face your food, you are still …
Memory for Dust (James Laidler)
Artist’s Statement ‘Memory for Dust’ is a poem that lay buried in one of my journals for a number of years. It recounts the death of our pet cat which …
Bird Call (Djon Mundine)
Anne’s Song If the song of the songbird, could replace my wrong word Then my dear, that’s the song I would borrow And tonight, you would hear the saddest song …
Four Oceans (Toby Davidson)
Turn Back You have come in the least of your free time to here, for no fit reason and against the predominantly unconscious wishes of reasonable people. They would have …