Damen O'Brien Archives

The View From Heaven (Damen O’Brien)

Verity La September 14, 2018 Heightened Talk

Tickling out of a golden universe, the native bees swarm: spots of ash in a warm wind, migraine patterns dancing. Each tiny tick and tock and black note small as …

The QPF Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award Winners 2015

Verity La December 11, 2015 Heightened Talk

In 2015 Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) proudly announced the inaugural Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award. This new award is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon, who has agreed …

How My Father Got His Robotic Hand (Jacqui Dent)September 18, 2012
It was in the summer of 1995 and my father was working in a top-secret IBM water lab off the coast of Wollongong. Thanks to classic films like Deep Blue ... Read More
Under the Radar (Peter Papathanasiou)September 7, 2018
Although I grew up in Australia, I was born in a rural part of Greece, in the region of Macedonia. The northern regions of Macedonia, Thessaly and Thrace were hit ... Read More
DIG (Miguel Jacq)December 2, 2015
it is the duty of parents to name you, to store read-only instinct in your shell of foreign flesh. this seems disruptive at first but I go naturally, native to ... Read More