My first kiss was framed by rusty corrugated iron walls and wonky wooden fences. It was sung by earth shattering sounds of passing cement-tankers. The crown of my head melting …
In Sympathy (K. S. Moore)
What you once called vixen, you now mourn — loss of her burgundy crown, loss of her tawny eyes. Her lips no longer ssh you, neither do they speak of …
These Hills Are My Ribs (Niko Boskovic)
Going Through These Motions Doesn’t Do Us Any Good, So Let’s Change the Teacher Victimization may be the most overthought term used to describe my people. But what do you …
Wreck (Robbie Coburn)
Farm Study Nothing much ever happens. a muteness that lies down in darkness cleanly parted before the drive of rain settling behind the mountains the sculpted gums have long been …
Reaching Light: Selected Poems (Robert Adamson)
On the Poetry of Robert Adamson — Devin Johnston Robert Adamson has always been a restless poet, reinventing himself with each new book. His work abounds with redirections and experiments, …
Spirit of Self Expression 2020 Live Poetry Reading
The 2020 Spirit of Self Expression poetry reading took place on 27 September at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The event featured 22 works by a broad and exciting range …
Double Paradise (Okwudili Nebeolisa)
Though I was asleep your voice slit through me like a scythe, I was enjoying the dream. I wished the water was like glass and that I could sit on …
Mind Goals (Mohammad Ali Maleki)
June 20 is United Nations World Refugee Day, a day where we hold the 25.9 million refugees of the world in our thoughts. Refugees around the world have made and …
Untitled (Luke Patterson)
(edited by Phillip Hall) I’m not even sure how to speak my father’s Country or tame the river dog’s cunning drag to the bog bottom of reconciliation. But I tell …
LADY OF THE MURALS (Stephen Oliver)
‘The memory of you keeps calling after me like a rolling train.’ — Bob Dylan & Sam Shepard: Brownsville Girl ‘Out of a headstrong cloud column emerged one square-rigged ship, …