(Curated by Saba Vasefi) When the moon is the only light in a home you haven’t known, you feel separated from your swan-song language.The moment of standing on a precipice …
A DECLARATION OF LOVE FOR HUMANITY: Judith Crispin reviews Les Wicks’ Belief
Review by Judith Crispin Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Les Wicks’ fourteenth collection of poems, Belief, is clever and brutal — an unflinching examination of human belief, in all of its …
Lateral Love (Kirli Saunders)
Lateral Love I’ve been looking for lateral love in all its forms hoping to find it pouring from hearts that speak soft encouragement keep going bub praying to see …
Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019
Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize (supported by Southern Cross University) is for poems of up to fifty lines that respond to the theme ‘seeking asylum’. The prize celebrates the …
Spirit of Home
On Sunday 10 November, twenty poets gathered at Manly Art Gallery & Museum for the 5th annual Poetry Alive reading to share their original poems responding to the Home Affairs …
memoir (Kaya Lattimore)
tita ruth tells stories as if she belongs to them as if they are alive eating tinola at the kitchen table with us in the house apu built bare hands …
Thawing of Time (Richard J Bell)
Artist’s Statement ‘Thawing of Time’ is a poetical short film about life beginning to thaw after being exited from mental health services. For years I tired to create movement in …
Bare (Melinda Smith)
The dead are necessary they are forked like branches they have their own names call them: they are not hiding what use will you come to ? a eucalypt stag …
Poems for Thinking: Jennifer Maiden’s brookings: the noun (Ben Hession)
Review by Ben Hession Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Jennifer Maiden is an Australian poet who has been active for over fifty years, with a number of awards to her name. …
Recompense (Luke Best)
David with the Head of Goliath (Rome) — Caravaggio Fatality There’s a boy on the wall of my writing space: the all-dark 3a.m. cubicle. …