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 …
Poems by Juan Garrido-Salgado and Ariel Riveros Pavez
(edited by Ramon Loyola) Changing Places to Sleep Not for Political / Security Reasons After the Reading at Sappho Last Night By Juan Garrido-Salgado To Beth Spencer and Claudia Taranto …
Love Song (Sandra Renew)
beneath her scarf, her honour— everything lowers to its haunches, puffs out its cheeks vulnerable to reality even hope sinks. I would blow my hope alive with my last breath …
Mercury (Ben Hession)
Estrangement has its latitudes, the most hospitable to residency, here: trembling, trying to avoid extremes — every day you are busy celebrating two birthdays, slowly, you can have your medication and …