Jennifer Liston Archives

Deadspeak (Jennifer Liston)

Verity La April 24, 2018 Heightened Talk

Deadspeak Lycanthrope It’s that time of the month again: time to open the lowest drawer of the dustiest dresser. Sit awhile. Gaze at gauze enfolding precious. Peel it back, fingers …

The Hard Earth (Heather Taylor Johnson)July 24, 2015
There is a mountain, my son, between us and from this side, here at the bottom where I am dressed appropriately in morning robe, where house mice scurry under the ... Read More
The remembered, the haunted, and the differing (Robyn Cadwallader)February 4, 2012
The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, home ... Read More
Do you come here often? (Melinda Smith)October 2, 2015
Sydney, you flirt, you sandstone blonde with your wide blue eyes, your fringes of come-hither frangipani, your swizzle-stick palms, your blinding white mast-thickets bristling in the little bays. Perched on ... Read More