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 …
BLOOD OATH (Magdalena Ball and Rob Walker)
‘Blood Oath’ is a multimedia collaboration by Magdalena Ball & Rob Walker. (Music credit: ‘Transport to the Heart’ by Martyn Bloor & M Elwell Romancito) Rob Walker and …
To and From Hadamar (Ben Hession)
It was nothing special, really, an overcast bus on a non-descript journey: a sort of euphemistic ride — the white-coated driver, the passengers chattering about simple things, but in a …
The Gentle Art of Releasing (Janette Dadd)
(Edited by Alise Blayney & Tim Heffernan) Bones You’re in my dreams now. I can’t get rid of you. …
Tom’s Lagoon (Louis Armand)
1. Teeth in a jar, corks screwed to arthritic fists. A ten-mile stretch of frozen sky reflected in it. They stoop there, anchored, boy & old man pocketing scrap from …
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (Gayelene Carbis)
Lessons On Life From My Sister In First Year I just want to enjoy things I don’t want to think about them. don’t you do anything for fun you can’t …
I text you a photo of my knitting (Tricia Dearborn)
the knitting lies curved along its cable it rests on the pattern which covers my journal in which is secreted my dream of two nights ago the one where I …