Kristine McKinney Rees Archives

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019

Verity La November 22, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Poetry

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 …

Make Me (Janet Marie Rogers)October 16, 2018
Artist’s Statement ‘Make Me’ is an erotic poem with a developed performance which borrows from Indigenous ceremony and brings in sensuous elements that exemplify the grounded and tactile nature ... Read More
Causes (An Jin)May 17, 2019
Tram Accident tram driver tells me I’m going to die I think about being a mess they can’t get out of the tracks I think about delays on the line ... Read More
The Cry Room (Gaele Sobott)March 12, 2018
Birth I just slipped out she said. Like a slip of the tongue, slipshod, a slip stitch forever unknitted. I was born. Slippery, sibilant, small in the scheme of everyday ... Read More