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Hippophobia - by Chloe Wilson
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Hippophobia - by Chloe Wilson

This poem was runner-up in the 2018 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize.
Someone’s taint or blot. That’s/
how I shouldered my way/
into this world. Neither of us/
forgot it …

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Tend - by Jo Langdon
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Tend - by Jo Langdon

I could some days mistake for a flower/
the perineum—by letter & sound—it’s true:/
like some variant nasturtium/
of jaunty colour atop salad leaves & dressed/
in bright oil …

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Ekphrasis - by Belinda Rule
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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 …

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Sonnet 29 - by Stuart Barnes
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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 …

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Waiting Room - by Felicity Plunkett
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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 …

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Analogue - by Stephen Edgar
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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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