please read Pauline – by Lily Woodberry
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please read Pauline – by Lily Woodberry

‍if you lose my father

                           do not panic! he’s on the lawn

        toes turned out nose up  

the nose pokes

                                      indoors at the ten-minute mark

                     crikey you gotta see this

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Spiderweb – by Edie Popper
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Spiderweb – by Edie Popper

 A spider’s moved into my kitchen window, the northern one 

that gets good sun. Eye-sized, single scampering hand: 

daily, working at its weave. If a memory is a moth or mote …

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Cold Water Swimming in Lyme Regis – by Audrey Molloy
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Cold Water Swimming in Lyme Regis – by Audrey Molloy

RUNNER-UP IN THE GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE 2025

Out again, through the flounce of dulse and tangle,
out again, through the icy bands—

sea fingers clasping calves and thighs,
sea tongues lapping frozen lips.

At twelve degrees the shock can cause your heart
to founder if you enter suddenly;

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My Kaathii Sister – by Julie Janson
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My Kaathii Sister – by Julie Janson

RUNNER-UP IN THE GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE 2025

“She’s gone to Bourke on the back of a truck with that fatherless baby”

My mother laughs, and sighs, shutting her thin purse

A week of rough driving and sleeping under green canvas

We students live in the Anglican manse for free until Terese kissed

A blackfella, in 1972

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Basement – by Damen O’Brien
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Basement – by Damen O’Brien

A hatch left open where we played, so we descended  

into a subterranean place visited only by men in helmets  

and hi vis as though preparing to navigate a labyrinth…

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