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Eugen Bacon’s Writing Speculative Fiction
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “Genre and subgenre crossings in speculative fiction thrive in this world of blurred boundaries […] Genre bending is ‘writing different’[…] As more cross genre works emerge, authors and…
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Gale Acuff
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in several countries and is the author of three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine.
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This Old Heart of Mine
by Jill Jones. Don’t scrounge, my heart, leave the pickings for the birds, there’s always a magpie or honeyeater who can use it better than you. Just keep beating, flapping your valves…
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Woodwork
by Hélène Cardona If I could gather all the sadness of the world, all the sadness inside me into a gourd, I’d shake it once in a while and let it…
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Kate Harland
Kate’s adulthood has been a roller coaster ride. Quite some time ago, before taking on the care of her sister’s children and then taking on an old run down family sheep farm,…
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When
By Gale Acuff, In Sunday School Miss Hooker tells us that we’re all going to die one day, who knows when, exactly, except for Jesus and God and probably the Holy Ghost. Now…
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Hélène Cardona
Hélène Cardona, poet, actor and translator, is the author of six books, most recently the award-winning Dreaming My Animal Selvesand Life in Suspension,and the translations Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona), Winner of…
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The Un-marvelling
by Jill Jones How strange last night, I beheld your face, electric with thought along with my unrest, alight and hollow when the night trees shivered and the block we walked seemed more…
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Muscle Memory
By Anne M. Carson, The dog’s legs twitch where she lies on the rug, remembering, we say, her run in the park, leaping and loping in the forever freedom of imagination’s…
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Owen Bullock
Owen Bullock has published three collections of poetry, Sometimes the sky isn’t big enough (2010), Semi (2017) and Work & Play (2017); four books of haiku, Wild camomile (2009), Breakfast with epiphanies…
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Meeting The Owl
By Debbie Lim, You see through me instantly, melting away branches, shadow. Meanwhile you wear that primitive mask: as if shocked to the bone. It’s a floating art you practice, levering…
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Shona Blake
Shona Blake is a singer/songwriter/writer based on the west coast of Ireland. Her thoughtful prose has a haunting honesty drawing from her life experiences. She released her first album “Explore” in 2016…
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Devika Brendon
Devika Brendon is a teacher of English language and literature and an editor, reviewer and creative writer. Her poetry and short stories have been published in anthologies and literary journals in Australia, India,…
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Eamonn Wall
Eamonn Wall is the author of Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2015), Sailing Lake Mareotis (2011), A Tour of Your Country (2008) among other poetry collections. His…
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CANCIÓN
By Eamonn Wall, To mark my father’s first day in America a young couple mounted a super-sized Sony boombox atop a garbage can at a bus stop: Dyckman St. & Broadway.…
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Kristen De Kline
Kristen de Kline (aka Kristen Davis) is a Melbourne writer who has published poetry in a range of publications including Pink Cover Zine, Press: 100 Love Letters, Have Your Chill, Australian Poetry…
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Review of Toby Fitch Where Only the Sky had Hung Before.
(Vagabond Press, 2019)by Helen Moore “Retweets are the new/Realism” The cover of Toby Fitch’s latest collection features a painting by the Australian constructivist sculptor Robert Klippel made in 1950. A curving, spiky form composed…
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Liana Joy Christensen
For seven years Liana Joy Christensen was a member of the Voicebox Collective, acting as MC of Western Australia’s longest running live poetry event. She has also been an Australian Poetry Centre…
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DIAMONDS
By Shona Blake, You have diamonds in your mouth And we bleed every time you speak Hearts beat too fast, consumed with stitching wounds Biting down on an itch we cannot…
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Always Even Though
By Les Wicks, I tried looking back at our time, found nothing tragic. I was privileged to see a vulnerability withheld from others. That art, your beauty. All my fault,…
