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After the boat (view from the shore)
By Ramon Loyola Trammelled by felled trees on each side of the shore, my limbs feel invisible and mangled, after two months and a quarter of a night at sea, with hands…
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Preconceptions in Palmerstown Park
By Nessa O’Mahony November, post-work. Strewn leaves trip up on the weary walk to the car parked far enough out to be free. The Starlet misplaced on this street of Victorian villas,…
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I stole these words from Syria
By Sandra Renew why are the poets the first to be killed? he was killed because of that poem where did he hide his poems? he hides them in his head and…
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A tanka
By Sandra Renew the missing one million bones dead air we all want someone to know our death (First published in Atlas Poetica 20: A journal of World Tanka (ed. M. Kei, Keibooks, 2015).)…
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The Great Hunger
By Fiona Perry My kind owes a debt to the people of the Choctaw Nation Torn from the bones their progenitors left as a sacred Deposit on land as revered as womb.…
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Random Acts of National Identity
By Richard James Allen I am not sure if where you live is a statement of intent. It might be a statement of accident. Like accidents of the light reflecting between the…
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mia council casa es tu council casa
By Ali Whitelock i live out of sydney these days it is close to the beach though we are not wealthy. Some days there are whales other days dolphins occasional jellies and…
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Politics
by Jordan King-Lacroix i. “Let’s not talk about politics.” “You’re going to let politics ruin a friendship?” “Two things you never discuss at dinner; politics and religion.” “Ignorance is bliss, politics just…
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Babies’ Eyes
By Wendy J. Dunn Babies’ eyes I want to cry They haunt me Babies’ eyes Dull Frightened Disengaged from life Babies who don’t know How to play Babies born in prison…
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Book Review: The Earth Does Not Get Fat by Julia Prendergast
Review by Nik Shone. This is a book you should 100% add to your collection. It is above all a story of love and a journey to find the truth behind closed doors.…
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Book review: Dark Matters by Susan Hawthorne.
By Madeleine Reid. Dark Matters is a terrifying, yet beautiful novel by the Australian writer, Susan Hawthorne, published by the feminist and contemporary Spinifex Press, in 2017. It deals with the issues of…
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Book review: Dark Matter by Robin Morgan
Review written by Nik Shone In her new collection, Dark Matter, Robin Morgan explores themes that have been prevalent throughout her life as she details her experiences in ageing and her diagnosis…
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Now He is Here
By Denise O’Hagan I tread between slabs of stone shining like the underbellies of giant bugs in the shimmering light of an autumn afternoon and think that this was just the sort…
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Ali Whitelock
Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet living in Australia. Her debut collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ was published by Wakefield Press, Adelaide in 2018 with a forthcoming UK…
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Jesse Williams
Jesse Williams is a writer from Victoria’s surf coast currently studying a Bachelor of Arts at Swinburne, majoring in creative writing. He has been inspired by countless writers since first reading Harry…
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Moya Pacey
Moya Pacey was born and grew up in Middlesbrough in the north of England. She came to Canberra in 1978 when it was a country town masquerading as a city and taught…
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Louise Carter
Louise is a Sydney poet whose work has appeared in Best Australian Poems 2012 & 2015, Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin, Westerly and Seizure. She is slowly completing a Doctor of Creative Arts…
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Fiona Perry
Fiona’s short stories and poetry have been published in The Irish Literary Review, Spontaneity Magazine, Into The Void, Dodging The Rain and Skylight47 amongst others. She grew up in Ireland but has…
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S. Nagaveeran (Ravi).
Originally from Sri Lanka, Ravi Nagaveeran was a detainee for more than three years in Nauru and Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation. Now living in the Australian community, Ravi uses his poems as…
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Lizz Murphy
Lizz Murphy has published 13 books including eight poetry titles. PressPress published her micropoetry books Shebird (PressPress), Portraits and Six Hundred Dollars; Ginninderra Press recently reprinted Walk the Wildly. Spinifex Press published…
