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To Water
by Les Wicks Predators like us know all about preservation of energy. Background music — a drummer falls into his set the ribbon gum has a hohum on — sheds in…
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Musings of a Dune Thistle (Other Terrain Press, 2025)
For me at least, there is always a level of excitement and anticipation when one receives a poet’s first book. Not only a first book from him, but the first book from…
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The Emerald Coast, 1976
By Les Wicks There was no plan that day, not too many plans anyday back then. Came up from Sydney to stay with Taye, see how she was going with…
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Duck’n’dive
By Les Wicks Is fear the biggest factor in persistence? Curiosity is always its enemy. Feeding wars, theft & compromise dread has treacherous hours kills the rare certainties to replace…
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Anxiety
By Lindsay McLeod The insistent ghosts of my missteps have assembled here tonight the undeniable palette smeared with all the trapdoors of consequence the howls of my painted flesh…
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Seang (Hungering): Book Review.
Reviewer: Wendy J. Dunn Casey writes in her introduction to this powerful work: Each poem also operates to express resistance—almost always on several footings. Each strives to answer the question…
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It is Forever (oh the joy!)
By Christina Yin. They run up the slope together, brown paws and black paws, one after the other, ears flapping and noses twitching with excitement. Up at the crest of the…
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Vinculum
By Brad Whittingham I opened my eyes to a lifeless landscape. There were insinuations of vistas and peaks, but they refused to reveal their details. All was a dream, save for her.…
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Whatever Happened To
by Lindsay McLeod those days when I had that chain of users tight about my ankles pulling me down pushing the reason overboard for fun zero to zed in seconds,…
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One Saturday Afternoon in Hell
By Mark O’Flynn Dean’s wife, Shona, likes to fill out forms in supermarkets, in the backs of magazines, newspapers, anywhere where you might stand a chance of winning something. You know the…
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Colours of Surprises.
The novel follows Sophia, a curious young woman drawn to the mysteries surrounding an old homestead on the outskirts of town. Locals whisper about ghostly sightings, but it’s the history of the…
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Down
By Lindsay McLeod.
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Quiet Graves of Balákhi
The A4 Interstellar Quarterly Galactic News Quiet Graves of Balákhi by Anda Jones 15th Quater 8563 I bring sweet Martian biscuits to meet Margot Hedtesa. As the son of a Balákhi woman,…
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JENNIE HOLLAMBY
Jennie Hollamby is currently completing a creative practice PhD by Artefact and Exegesis at Swinburne University of Technology. Her current research focus includes practice-led research, trauma-focused life writing, evocative autoethnography and exo-autoethnography.…
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Audience
Standing at the front door as her mother slips into heels, she is curious. Eager to learn more. ‘Can I come and hear you sing tonight, Mummy?’ She wants to see…
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Imogen Fullagar
Imogen Fullagar is an avid letter writer, keeper of personal journals, and general creative. She lives in Australia between Canberra and Hobart. Her writing tends to explore systemic interactions or insights offered…
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Georgia Rodgers
I am currently a student at Swinburne University, studying a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Climate and Social Justice. I have a deep love for the environment and all of the beauty…
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Lambing in Iceland
By Imogen Fullagar I am an over-qualified, under-employed, over-fifty mother, who has recently completed building her own self-contained she-shed on a tiny Tasmanian farm. I need something that is definitively mine…
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The Water Between Us
by Georgia Rodgers. I sit next to her on the warm, sun-bleached sands. The outstretched limbs of friendly eucalypts shade us from the thirsty heat, and the scent of their drying leaves…
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Brad Whittingham
Brad Whittingham is a student currently studying Game Design and Creative Writing at Swinburne University. When he’s not vibing to Chappel Roan (or the Disco Elysium OST), he’s often either cooking, drawing,…
