Stepping Back from The Edge: Re-imagining Queenstown - by Cameron Hindrum
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Stepping Back from The Edge: Re-imagining Queenstown - by Cameron Hindrum

… one might wonder exactly where the future lies. It might be too bold to imagine that it lies in the arts. However, there are many examples of arts festivals driving regional renewal, establishing new parameters of community engagement in areas that might otherwise have been written off, if not actually abandoned …

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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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Extension - by Anthony Lynch
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Extension - by Anthony Lynch

… I had liked the old kitchen. Last week I sat on a bar stool before the island bench, sipping orange juice while Craig relieved the fridge of beer and his wife Estelle blended celery and carrot. But for five years the Wilsons had plotted a replacement. When Estelle’s late mother left a sum, they decided not only on a new kitchen but a living room of tennis court proportions …

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Friends of Charlene: The Angelic Engineering of Kylie Minogue - by Jonno Revanche
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Friends of Charlene: The Angelic Engineering of Kylie Minogue - by Jonno Revanche

In 2010, at the behest of absolutely no one, Kylie Minogue decided to become an angel. In the music video for ‘All the Lovers’, Kylie was lifted up on the shoulders of a scantily clad flesh army, an architectural flash mob and assemblage fantasy brought to life by director Joseph Kahn … Her dutiful gays scurried to meet her as if by a wordless summoning. Her hair billowed behind her, her torso wrapped in Jean Paul Gaultier, those white-banded leather lines crisscrossing her like wings as she conducted the crowds below. She is exactly how we perceive goodness: luminescent (and with an expensive wig!) …

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Okay is a Verb - by Erin Hortle
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Okay is a Verb - by Erin Hortle

Cece wiggles her toes up and down, and then wiggles her hips, swivelling herself this way, then that. She sinks further into the aerated sand of the tideline. She bends down and picks up a small rock from beneath the lap of the shallows …

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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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Horse People - by Hollen Singleton
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Horse People - by Hollen Singleton

‘You see that horse there,’ the veterinarian said to me, hushed. ‘That’s Makybe Diva.’ No, it’s not, I thought. Just because I wasn’t one of them, just because I was a townie who didn’t know how to ride, didn’t mean they could mess with me …

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Just Maybe - by Dominic Amerena
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Just Maybe - by Dominic Amerena

It begins and ends with Miranda, standing in front of me, one arm by her side and the other massaging my shoulder, the fingers splayed and the nails somewhat ragged and covered in a clear solution that possesses similar chemical properties to antifreeze …

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46 - by Ana Duffy
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46 - by Ana Duffy

Llevate agua y sombrero, says my mother, as she does every time. The couch relaxes under her weight as she sits, and, stretching her legs on the foot stool one at a time, she groans …

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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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Apple Suite - by Danielle Wood
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Apple Suite - by Danielle Wood

Glen Huon, Tasmania
”You’ll see pickers and picnickers, returned servicemen and brides, young buildings all raw-planked and surrounded by saplings, hay carts piled high, blossom-filled vistas – a hundred thin slices of once-upon-a-time light displayed in deliberately mismatched frames …”

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