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What the Glass Holds - by Jill Jones
The shape of the glass/
is not the same/
as what the glass holds./
The shape of the water/
is infinite pleasure …
Ekphrasis - by Belinda Rule
William Robinson, Passage of Light from the Sea at Numinbah, 2002
… the light and the sky and the distant trees,/
the sheeting of that light/
on the underside of clouds,/
all these things are always/
already here …
I Protest - by Ouyang Yu
Have been dipping / into my / old / journals of the / early sixties / a/ mistake. Now I / feel sad / as / shit …
Pulled Apart by Seahorses - by Gavin Yates
Olive’s, seven in the evening, the tomatoes suffused with Viognier/
from the online store, but Ella Fitzgerald, who has sung to these/
walls before, where deleted lichen has rapidly come on like a fever …
Sonnet 29 - by Stuart Barnes
‘Bruce’? Unforgettable, but ‘In Your Eyes’/
I don’t remember, or the New York state/
trio, or ‘I Don’t Remember’, or cries/
of ‘Boum’, but I played the one that tells fate/
on Sunday afternoon …
Waiting Room - by Felicity Plunkett
Your absence lays its shadow on my skin./
A shadow’s weight is measured by the dark./
Moonflowers open velvet to the night./
You brought the wrong brand of abandon, love …
Analogue - by Stephen Edgar
Prising apart that tight-packed concertina/
Of LPs stowed away/
And half-forgotten on the floor,/
I flip through and pick one, by Palestrina,/
And place it on the turntable to play …
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Arts Features
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- Jun 1, 2021 Islands and Ships - by Joshua Santospirito
- Jun 1, 2021 The Intimacy of Daily Life: The News is the Weather - by Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry
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Fiction
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- Dec 17, 2025 Jack and the Argonauts – by Grace Heathcote
- Dec 5, 2025 Irukandji Death Syndrome – by Tabitha Laffernis
- Nov 4, 2025 Hellsite – by Jane O’Sullivan
- Nov 4, 2025 La Moustache – by Howard McKenzie-Murray
- Sep 23, 2025 333532 – by Ouyang Yu
- Aug 28, 2025 The humming – by Meisha Simpson
- Aug 6, 2025 The colour of perception – by Tony Barrett
- Aug 6, 2025 Fish inside a birdcage – by Samuel O'Neil Hamad
- Aug 6, 2025 The sobber – by Oliver Johns
- Aug 6, 2025 Gravity – by Morgan Kelly
- Aug 6, 2025 Once inside – by Maddie Goss
- Aug 6, 2025 Parasites make red pearls – by Lucy Haughton
- Aug 6, 2025 Flotsam on the drift – by Lonnie Dalton
- Jul 17, 2025 Why Benjamin Stork broke the ribbit glass – by Angus Macdonald
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- Jul 7, 2025 New purpose – by Alex Bennetts
- Jun 25, 2025 Improving the area – by Keith Goh Johnson
- May 15, 2025 Good for nothing – by Winnie Dunn
- Mar 5, 2025 Myer is Our Store – by Gillian Hagenus
- Jan 10, 2025 Generation optimisation – by EL Weber
- Dec 4, 2024 Afterbirth – by Payton Hogan
- Nov 6, 2024 The miracle – by Nadia Mahjouri
- Oct 8, 2024 Chrysalis – by Lachlan Plain
- Sep 11, 2024 The mystery of the lost hours – by Sue Brennan
- Sep 4, 2024 Masters – by Andrei Seleznev
- Aug 7, 2024 Paan – by Josefina Huq
- Jul 18, 2024 A major theft – by Emma Rosetta
- Jul 17, 2024 Devotion – by RT Wenzel
- Jul 10, 2024 He is the candle – by Lucy Norton
- Jul 10, 2024 These are no clear directions – by Lars Rogers
- Jul 3, 2024 Bound – by Liz Evans
- Jun 26, 2024 Prelude to a flight – by Joel Keith
- May 30, 2024 Dear life – by Susan Francis
- May 27, 2024 Refuse – by Hei Gou
- May 15, 2024 bodytruth – by Orlando Silver
- May 15, 2024 Lux – by Linden Hyatt
- May 15, 2024 Gristle and bone – by Jade Doyle
- Apr 18, 2024 Kevin – by Sarah Langfield
- Apr 18, 2024 Start where you are – by Jenny Sinclair
- Apr 9, 2024 Light hazard – by Sophie Overett
- Mar 14, 2024 Magic – by Maria Takolander and David McCooey
- Mar 4, 2024 The Budgie - by Jing Cramb
- Nov 27, 2023 The Interpreter – by Mariam Tokhi
- Nov 13, 2023 This Time Next Week – by Richard Rebel
- Nov 13, 2023 The Cheesewring – by Campbell Andersen
- Oct 27, 2023 Rat – by Anjelica Rush
- Sep 14, 2023 Nursery – by Nicola Redhouse
- Sep 14, 2023 Home of the Pure Heart, House of the Dying – by Rafael SW
- Aug 21, 2023 Sandcastles – by Ruth Armstrong
- Aug 20, 2023 The Mowing – by Ivy Ireland
- Aug 16, 2023 In the Archives – by Keely Jobe
- Aug 11, 2023 A Thin, Brilliant Line – by Lal Perera
- Jul 6, 2023 The River Path – by Tadhg Muller
- Jun 6, 2023 Strokes of White – by Julian Fell
- May 23, 2023 The Blue Fox – by Michael Burrows
- May 23, 2023 How to Kill a Pea – by Lara Keys
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- Mar 29, 2023 The Planet Terrarium - by Philomena van Rijswijk
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- Feb 2, 2023 Infrared – by Ryan Delaney
- Feb 2, 2023 The Day the Wave Came – by Paul Mitchell
- Jan 17, 2023 Collateral Damage – by John Tully
- Jan 17, 2023 Philomela – by Orana Loren
- Dec 7, 2022 The Museum – by Gemma Parker
- Dec 7, 2022 The Moths – by Gillian Britton
- Dec 5, 2022 Finger-branches – by Eliza Henry-Jones
- Nov 10, 2022 The Grass Painter – by KA Rees
- Sep 23, 2022 Nithing – by Clayton O’Toole
- Aug 25, 2022 Animal Life of Penang – by Claire Aman
- Aug 25, 2022 Butter – by Daniel Ray
- Aug 15, 2022 Not Gone, Just Different – by Rae White
- Aug 15, 2022 Rigel and Betelgeuse – by A E Macleod
- Aug 1, 2022 Get Joy from GetJoy – by Alex Cothren
- Jun 20, 2022 No Tomorrow – by Catherine Deery
- Jun 20, 2022 The Great Aviary of Love – by Kathryn Goldie
- May 26, 2022 Moss – by Jane Rawson
- Apr 14, 2022 Bombera – by Josefina Huq
- Mar 17, 2022 One Man’s Trash – by Piri Eddy
- Mar 2, 2022 Geometry of Lament – by Alicia Sometimes
- Feb 10, 2022 Interiors – by Zac Picker
- Jan 21, 2022 Phantom Menace Hours – by Victoria Manifold
- Jan 21, 2022 Sea Legs – by Sophie Overett
- Nov 23, 2021 Celebrity – by Chris McTrustry
- Nov 5, 2021 Fisher Girls – by Barry Lee Thompson
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- Aug 26, 2021 Surrogate Mother - by Helena Pantsis
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- Jun 1, 2021 Tiefenzeit - by Tricky Walsh
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Nonfiction
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- Mar 3, 2026 Between snow and slogans - by Ramak Bamzar
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- Dec 16, 2025 The aesthetics of endless seeking – by Deniz Yildiz
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- Nov 25, 2025 Menura novaehollandiae – by Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun
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- Sep 10, 2025 Outer Banks – by Kathleen Williams
- Aug 28, 2025 Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift
- Aug 22, 2025 Cold coffee – by Aboubakr Daqiq
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- Sep 14, 2023 In the River – by Searlait O’Neill
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- Apr 28, 2023 Chaste – by Suri Matondkar
- Apr 14, 2023 Landfall – by Megan Coupland
- Feb 2, 2023 Lines of Curiosity – by Margaret Aitken
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- Jan 17, 2023 Rubbish – by Liz Betts
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- Dec 7, 2022 Compare and Contrast – by Gillian Bouras
- Dec 6, 2022 Who Owns the Greek Myths? – by Katerina Cosgrove
- Nov 22, 2022 I Go Down to the Shore – by RT Wenzel
- Nov 22, 2022 The Shimmer of Flying Fox Landscape – by Matthew Chrulew
- Nov 22, 2022 Animal Rescue – by Bastian Fox Phelan
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- Nov 22, 2022 The Magpie and the Scarecrow – by Helena Pantsis
- Nov 22, 2022 The Right One to Rescue – by Sharon Kent
- Sep 23, 2022 Far Out, Cats – by M.T. O’Byrne
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- Jul 25, 2022 An Open Space – by Luke Johnson
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- Jul 14, 2022 The Sound of Light – by Verity Borthwick
- Jul 14, 2022 If You Join the Circle, You Must Dance – by Katerina Cosgrove
- Jul 14, 2022 Hospitality – by Nicole Melanson
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- Jun 8, 2022 A New Garden – by Erica Nathan
- May 26, 2022 The Third Angel of Chernobyl – by Carmel Bird
- Apr 13, 2022 A Year Without Mirrors – by Sarah Klenbort
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- Feb 10, 2022 Falling Asleep Under the Love Umbrella – by Clare Millar
- Dec 6, 2021 A Waving Forest – by Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn
- Dec 6, 2021 Changing Spots – by Sharon Kent
- Dec 6, 2021 A Questionable Survey of Suburban Eucalypts – by Uthpala Gunethilake
- Dec 6, 2021 The Rats Move In – by Karen A Johnson
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Poetry
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- Apr 27, 2026 Conversing with broken things – by Lesh Karan
- Apr 27, 2026 Ahead of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, e-scooters trap a car – by Isabella G Mead
- Apr 27, 2026 night heart – by Claire Gaskin
- Apr 27, 2026 Ichthyophobe – by Megan Cartwright
- Mar 12, 2026 Intraocular – by Geoff Page
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- Feb 25, 2026 Cold Water Swimming in Lyme Regis – by Audrey Molloy
- Feb 25, 2026 My Kaathii Sister – by Julie Janson
- Jan 22, 2026 The midnight shift – by Jena Woodhouse
- Dec 17, 2025 Basement – by Damen O’Brien
- Dec 16, 2025 Dear neighbours, – by Jane Gibian
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- Oct 21, 2025 Game, Set, Match – by Maria Takolander and David McCooey
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- Oct 1, 2025 (five monostiches) – by Beth Spencer
- Sep 23, 2025 Waterborne – by Timothy Neale
- Sep 10, 2025 Alhambra – by Omar Musa
- Aug 22, 2025 If Anne Carson had grown up on a cattle station in the Northern Territory – by Johanna Bell
- Jul 8, 2025 Anglerfish – by Siobhan Hodge
- Jun 16, 2025 My fisherman – by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Jun 16, 2025 Rescue – by Toby Davidson
- Jun 2, 2025 with flowers – by Alexander Bennetts
- May 15, 2025 An Island of Dogs – by Ronald Araña Atilano
- Apr 3, 2025 Movable – by David Ishaya Osu
- Mar 20, 2025 The Burial Feathers – by Yasmin Smith
- Mar 20, 2025 Lateral ambling gait – by Emilie Collyer
- Mar 20, 2025 and – by Helen Jarvis
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- Feb 27, 2025 Night Movements – by Daniel Ray
- Feb 19, 2025 Chinese Funerals as Theatre – by Xin Lee
- Feb 5, 2025 Love Poem – by Luoyang Chen
- Dec 18, 2024 Washing my mother’s hair – by Helen Jarvis
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- Nov 13, 2024 Dementia – by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
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- Oct 14, 2024 1. – by Bobby K
- Aug 22, 2024 The Ascension on a MacBook Air – by Sam Morley
- Aug 14, 2024 The Edit / An Edit – by Michael Farrell
- Aug 7, 2024 Dysesthesia – by Shey Marque
- Jul 24, 2024 Dinner Call – by Anders Villani
- Jul 3, 2024 ‘Helen’ by Euripides – by Andrew Sutherland
- Jun 21, 2024 white nonsense – by Alice Allan
- Jun 19, 2024 Telegram – by Natalie Susak
- Jun 19, 2024 new year’s day – by Mitch Cave
- Jun 19, 2024 Advice and Warnings – by Jill Jones
- Apr 9, 2024 If Movement Were a Language: Triptych – by Svetlana Sterlin
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- Mar 20, 2024 23 vignettes on the rental crisis – by Anna Jacobson
- Mar 20, 2024 Stanzas – by Jo Gardiner
- Mar 20, 2024 Parturition Chairs I-V – by Isabella G Mead
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- Mar 20, 2024 Friendly fire – by Tricia Dearborn
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- Feb 21, 2024 Improbable Acts of Proximity – by Shey Marque
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- Mar 2, 2022 Jobs for Women: Annunciate – by A Frances Johnson
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- May 25, 2021 Distorted Depiction - by Cassandra Atherton
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- May 23, 2021 Ekphrasis - by Belinda Rule
- May 23, 2021 I Protest - by Ouyang Yu
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- May 23, 2021 Sonnet 29 - by Stuart Barnes
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- May 23, 2021 Analogue - by Stephen Edgar