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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Pukumani poles, Tiwi Islands.
by Peter Boyle.
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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…
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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),…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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From the country of pain*
by Peter Boyle.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…






