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On Being An Angel
By Angela T. Carr, After Francesca Woodman, Angel Series (1977) To fly, a girl must first roll out from under the musk sour of flesh must will her bones to…
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Being Yours
By K.S. Moore, The exquisite madness of being yours – heart full, arms full. Top of the stairs you become a ball, that deep-learned womb style curling of form only asks…
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the package
By Owen Bullock, wrapped in multi-coloured paper in the shape of a citadel unwrapped shrinks to a small pyramid receivers fiddle with the object for a few moments finding…
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Stella Maris Home for the Demented
By Liana Joy Christensen, The tides of propriety recede leaving the sharp tang of mineral salts on the shifting breeze the rich rot of seaweed You’ve seen it all before…
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Anne M. Carson
Anne M Carson is a poet and essayist who is published internationally and widely in Australia. Two Green Parrots was published in 2019, and Massaging Himmler: A Poetic Biography of Dr Felix…
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The hero’s journey in life and play
by Jacqueline Moran. The hero’s journey is a way of describing our experiences, their effects on us, what they mean to us, and how we respond. In this way, the hero’s journey…
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Bumming with Ziggy
By Kristen De Kline I slept with her again last night we screamed as we came lit up as we crashed down we wrote poems every day on brown paper bags eulogies…
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Angry Days – Part II
by Gerrit Bos, There are angry days, there are quiet days. There are good days when peace settles on the haze. There are angry days, there are quiet days. When…
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Les Wicks
Les Wicks has been published across 38 countries in 17 languages. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken – New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022). He can be found at leswicks.tripod.com/lw.htm
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Elliot Perlman Interview.
by Samuel Elliott. Elliot Perlman’s Three Dollarswon the Age Book of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Award (UK), the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for…
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The Poet Laureate
By Bernadette Gallagher, is replaced by the next incumbent not as swift as the football manager who slipped from favour like the priest at Nemi sword in hand at watch to…
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the last
By Owen Bullock, hearing Keijiro Suga feet of cement sprout out of the jungle pools of concrete expand, merge pillars cover trees, warehouses, palaces roads plaster the earth sheets of…
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Quadratic Love Song
By Angela T. Carr, So many things will sit inside a square – a book, a bell, a tooth, a cup, a bone – but who would look and think to…
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CASTING SHADE
By Devika Brendon, There it is, again, the self that is not shy That has held back – not out of fear – but Out of a desire that the blow…
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A Good Ball
By Eugen Bacon ‘The game is alive,’ coughed the score worm. It illuminated with body shimmers who was winning. It was the Cyclops. The amphitheatre erupted. An umpire blew his horn…
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The soft fall of midnight
By Matthew M.C. Smith, I know the soft fall of midnight: the film of dew on dark buds’ lips a scent of lavender pressed underfoot the celestial stream in the…
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Eleanor Hooker
by Nik Shone. Eleanor Hooker is an Irish poet and writer. She has published two poetry collections with Dedalus Press: A Tug of Blue (2016); The Shadow Owner’s Companion (2012). Her third collection…
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Jayne Fenton Keane
Jayne Fenton Keane has been extensively published in print, radio, digital, performance, sound and visual mediums. Her published poetry collections include ‘Torn’, ‘Ophelia’s Codpiece’ and ‘The Transparent Lung’. Jayne’s practice reflects an…
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Stuart Barnes
Stuart Barnes was born and grew up in Hobart and lived in Melbourne for seventeen years before moving to Rockhampton. His first poetry collection, Glasshouses (UQP), won the Thomas Shapcott Prize, was commended for the…
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Julie Fredericks
Julie Fredericks lives in Sydney. After a long hiatus she has returned to writing poetry and is a very happy “apprentice” of the North Shore Poetry Project. Her work is inspired by…
