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 …
White Noise (Beth Spencer)
those clouds I could almost touch and the tickety-tick of talk at ten-thousand ‘tea? tea? tea?’ the steward mows down the aisle spoons clinking paper on screens a …
Poems From Glasshouses (Stuart Barnes/Leigh Backhouse)
ENDONE® Oxycodone hydrochloride 5 mg Blister-white tablet engraved with ‘ENDONE’ on one side, break bar the other. It does not take the place of your doctor or pharmacist: opium or …
Burroughs Does Oz (Joe Dolce)
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 …