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Something More for Tracey
By Karla Whitmore This poem is a response to Tracey Moffatt’s photographic series entitled Something More (1989) in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. It is 87 words in length. I was interested in the…
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Flight of the Rohingya
By Frances Roberts Water and a little food snatched up containers a rug a pole survival driven humanity pouring from a fissure abandoning home again the road to Bangladesh. An exodus of…
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Interview with Susan Carland
Interviewed by Abby Claridge. Like many feminists, Susan Carland faces criticism for her views. But, unlike many Western feminists, her Muslim faith is often bought up in an effort to delegitimize her…
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Review of Eugen Bacon’s fiction
By Roanna Gonsalves Eugen Bacon writes with cheekiness and a fierce intelligence that shines through every page of her work. Right from the first sentence, the voices of each of her narrators…
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Selfies on my Mind
By Jacob Parsons I have a confession to make: I am a millennial that has never shared a selfie on social media. I feel very much in the minority here. Posting a…
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Book Review of Katya de Becerra’s What the Woods Keep
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “[…] my mother left our family home and walked into the fog-shrouded forest […] never to be seen again. One missing human in a crowd of many. Yet…
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Toad Princes
By Sandra Renew we were out that night in the Holden ute road through the cane-fields slippery as all get out down-pour roaring and closing down the viewing distance to a few feet…
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Defence Forces Seek Artists
By Paul Casey First published in Virtual Tides, (Salmon Poetry, 2016).
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Shame Shame
By Anne Elvey First appeared in Anne Elvey’s collection White on White (Cordite Books, 2018).
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Departure
By Frances Roberts. Caught in the tide of you your skin moving liquid against mine the surf of my heart booming in my ears… in this ever and never place give me…
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Frances Roberts
Prior to graduating as a psychologist, with a particular interest in complex behaviour difficulties, I taught French, German and English in high school and used my prior training in dance to assist…
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Interview with Judith Beveridge.
Interviewer: Abby Claridge. There is a reason Judith Beveridge is considered one of the most iconic contemporary Australian poets of today. Her style is refined and her development as writer has been…
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Eugen Bacon
Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She has sold many stories and articles, together with anthologies. Her stories have won, been shortlisted and commended…
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Jessica Murdoch
Jessica is a writer, teacher and experienced list maker. She has spent almost a decade teaching primary age students and is passionate about all young people having access to critical literacy skills, opportunities…
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Apocalypse
By Eugen Bacon Blood and sweat The kitchen is alive with old knowledge. Red dust, oregano leaves, cockerel feathers. Dried flowers adulterate dainty cucumber sandwiches garnished with pickled shallots, arrayed on…
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Om mani padme hum སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་
—for Kif againby David Allen Sullivan. We are met with outstretched hands by those nearest the door. I think the woman wants to charge us, so give her five kwai.She pockets it, but we’re…
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A Letter to a Faraway Friend
By Skye B Jenner Twirling the pen in her delicate fingers, she thought. And thought. And thought. Sometimes it was hard to put emotions into words. The pen twirled. How could she…
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Solli Raphael
I love writing, and poetry allows me to share my thoughts with you. I would like for people to be inspired to remember that money and externalized successes are not the only…
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Book review: and my heart crumples like a coke can.
By Wendy J. Dunn I just knew ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’was a special book from almost the first moment I took it from my tall tower of TBR…
