• Amirah Al Wassif

    Amirah Al Wassif

    Amirah Al Wassif is a freelance writer, poet, and novelist. Five of her books were written in Arabic and many of her English works have been published in many international literary and…

  • Obi Wan

    Obi Wan

    by Anne Walsh.   I want to go like Obi Wan Kenobi with a smile that says I knew all of this would happen, I wanted it to. I wanted to lose…

  • Poem thingo

    Poem thingo

    By Nicki Bacon.   Stare at me from a distance, A tale of boredom now known. Stare at me from a closeness, My life, a dullness sewn.   This flash of light…

  • Watershed Warning

    Watershed Warning

    By Drucilla Wall,   Erect blue towers on my body. I lie low in sweet reflection, to all my creatures give provision, I layer the stone to mark the way.   At…

  • Angela T. Carr

    Angela T. Carr

    Angela T. Carr is a poet, editor and creative writing facilitator. Her debut collection How to Lose Your Home & Save Your Life (Bradshaw Books, 2014), won the Cork Literary Review Poetry…

  • The Fossil Maker

    The Fossil Maker

    By Debbie Lim,   For Bob Slaughter, palaeontologist   He understands the bones of little fish. The way each spine will set in stone beneath the weight of forests, sediment, the collapsed…

  • The Octopus

    The Octopus

    by Anthony Lawrence,   Having knocked the lid from the cooler it was captive in, it slid along the jetty to confer with the knots in stained timber as to which direction…

  • Widgie

    Widgie

    By Sandra Renew,   we segued from Elvis to the Beatles, louts and moral delinquents frequenting Kings Cross milk bars in our hundreds       bodgies and widgies, didn’t know we were the new…

  • Jill Jones

    Jill Jones

    Jill Jones’ most recent books are Viva the Real(UQP), Brink(Five Islands Press), The Beautiful Anxiety(Puncher & Wattmann), which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2015, and Breaking the Days(Whitmore Press),…

  • Bernadette Gallagher

    Bernadette Gallagher

    Bernadette Gallagher was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1959 and has been living in the countryside of Co. Cork since 1986. She worked as a project manager and IT specialist for many…

  • Matthew M.C. Smith

    Matthew M.C. Smith

    Matthew M C Smith is a poet from Swansea, Wales. He is particularly interested in mythic, historic, cosmic and neo-romantic poetry. He edits Black Bough Poetry, a new platform for micro-poetry. He…

  • Drucilla Wall

    Drucilla Wall

    Drucilla Wall’s book of poetry is The Geese at the Gates, published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. Her co-edited collection, Thinking Continental: Essays and Poems of Place, explores ideas of place through…

  • Anne Walsh

    Anne Walsh

    Anne Walsh has been shortlisted twice for both the ACU Prize in Literature and for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Mascara, Canberra Times, Backstory Journal, Other Terrain…

  • K.S. Moore

    K.S. Moore

    K. S. Moore is a Welsh poet, based in Ireland. Her poetry has recently appeared in New Welsh Review, Anthropocene, Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet, Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Honest Ulsterman, Boyne Berries,…

  • Nicki Bacon

    Nicki Bacon

    Nicki Bacon is a 17-year-old literature student who loves partying, exercise and hanging out with mates. He’s training for a triathlon and does some acting when he gets casting roles.

  • Peter Boyle

    Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He has had eight books of poetry published and seven books as a translator. In 2017 his book Ghostspeakingwon the Kenneth Slessor…

  • Deer Woman at Fifty

    Deer Woman at Fifty

    By Drucilla Wall,   One misty night on the road to Wentzville, a doe cut across the headlights and vanished kicking gravel chips from the edge of the woods, her provoking rump…

  • Cocoon

    Cocoon

    By K.S. Moore,   The cancer has spread I want to cocoon myself with the living, hide from decayed wings, talk to people I don’t know, reassure myself we are human. This…