He buys the lovely stuff duty-free as a diplomat. The spirits are sealed in their bottles like genies in jars. Bialoguski helps load up the car and they’re away. …
The Petrov Poems: Snake (Lesley Lebkowicz)
Dusya knows she looks good. Western clothes flirt with her hips and breasts while her blonde hair curls like a film star’s. She sees how men look. (They may …
The Petrov Poems: Canberra (Lesley Lebkowicz)
Over the coming weeks Verity La will be publishing a series of poems by Canberra-based poet Lesley Lebkowicz exploring the infamous Petrov Affair. The poems, ‘Canberra’, ‘Snake’, ‘Booze’, ‘A Charm . …
Duck Part 2 (Andrew Galan)
Two six-fingered blue arms loop around black, black, black boiling ink. It should not gawk; but with toes pigeoned around night’s dark dirt, the storm-cloud to salmon tulip is an …
Where is the Werewolf? (Andrew Galan)
What is going to be different this winter? When vests are still in fashion and I forget my hat but remember my tie that was how many years …
The City Lights of San Francisco (Graham Nunn)
folding tacos with her left hand she rolls a cigarette wake of the ferry a young couple fight over the timetable long night sirens …
Holding (Paul Hetherington)
He held her body lightly, shirted as it was, falling backwards as it was, away from him. He read in her arched back the prow-lines of figureheads on ships …
The Mother Poem (Andrew Galan)
[In preparation you will need a photocopy or printout of this poem, a book or pieces of cardboard big enough to hold this poem, glue, and a wooden spoon. Paste …
Tissue (Paul Hetherington)
He thought of his family: how his mother had been locked into grief about something she couldn’t name and was passionately present or strangely, remotely apart; how his father …
Instructions From God (Maria Takolander)
1. Clothe yourself in sky, gag your greedy mouth, and with a stick brush the barren dust you walk lest you tread on a single creature of mine for …