echoes smack on a photograph/ show about twelve/ all standing round in their morning/ like our thoughts/ all children have to leave somewhere/ and yet fishponds reflect/ if not actual …
These Things I Know (K W George)
I know things about this man. I first met him seventeen years ago when he removed a BCC from the right side of my forehead. That time I had staples …
The Black War Thesis (David Thomas Henry Wright)
‘This is clearly an important subject, but – and I don’t mean to be rude – why does your particular project matter?’ asked Professor McCombe, the Associate Dean of the …
2017 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its third year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers. All the paintings used in the competition are personally …
VALENTINES DAY STARS 2017! (Rachael Nielsen)
The world is on the edge of great catastrophe; Trump and Colonial xenophobia have already come after many, and though it is a time to pull closer to love and …
The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)
The Bridge I Must Walk Across Is this what it means to be lost? Stuck inside my skin — unable to shed it, unable to grow another — I am …
Easily the Hardest Thing (Jane Downing)
Was there any normal anymore? The others in the waiting room were at either end of a spectrum, tottering on an unfair seesaw between the obese and anorexic. The woman …
Frowny Face (Shannon Burns)
(Edited by Omar J. Sakr) Mother died today. I got an email. It said, mother passed away funeral tomorrow yours. I thought: Mine? Am I dead too? So here I …
The Burden of Wings (David Adès)
At first, everything was blurred, beyond comprehension. Testing, I hovered above, taking in a new perspective, strange, troubling. I watched myself retreat, backed into a corner, on my knees, in …
CHANGING THE GROUND OF EXISTENCE: an interview with Paul Hetherington
If there’s ever a part of human endeavour where people work extremely hard, achieve an extraordinary amount, but, in the main, unless there’s a miracle (and we all know they’re …