A man in a black suit on a white windswept beach. Wind snatching an umbrella, turning it into a batwing. Hands so cold and trembling fingers don’t work. Tingly feeling …
VOICES OF DIASPORA: (Mark William Jackson, Angelene Karas and Eunice Andrada)
(edited by Ramon Loyola & Michele Seminara) Proof of Life By Mark William Jackson If asked for proof of identity I can pull a card from my sacred wallet that …
Mad Poets Workshop Winners: The Wollongong Writers Festival
Spinning By Kyra Thomsen I spin myself into a frenzy legs lurching in and out like a spider building a web unravelling my inner-silk exposing my underbelly. The tea is …
Token (Anne Elvey)
A scale catches the light. A gold coin and a gold fish flash in the moat of a university house. I am torn by this writing whiteness, the attempt to …
2016 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
The Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its second year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers. All the paintings used in the competition are personally selected by …
cobalt (Jordie Albiston)
Co–nclusion: following find in 1982 by local sponge diver Mehmed Çakir & 11 campaigns {over 22 000 descends} the Uluburun drowned in the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the …
BEN FRATER AND THE MAD POETS OF THE GONG
By Tim Heffernan It is significant that the poetry of Benjamin Frater is reprised for the 2016 Wollongong Writers Festival and that he will be an integral part of the …
BHP (Be Humble Please) (Teena McCarthy)
(painting & poetry for Nanna) black by day white by night this broken ol’ town all battered and burned high gutters in case of a storm silver & gold yes! …
INsects (Anna Spargo-Ryan)
On windy days she went back to the building to find the shreds of skin he had left there. She caught the elevator to the top floor. It swagged in …
The Incandescent (Chris Lynch)
And you. When you saunter in, glowing like a tomboy, blue as a blowtorch and blazing. Made of glass you would shatter, but born of fire you can burn, like …