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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 …
Sisters Akousmatica: Herstory of Radio
[Voix Fantôme] The act of simply being women in public space, in radio/broadcast space, in performance space, in the world, can be a radical one – but we do not wish to leave it at that.
[Transmitter 1] How? How to begin to unpick a thousand years of cultural status quo?
Stingrays - by Christine Kearney
There are stingrays in the lake, Daddy warned. They wait on the sandy lake bed and when you come crashing through the shallows and step on one, boom! You get a poisoned barb through your foot. The pain, he said, is excruciating. I was eleven years old that summer, and every afternoon when we got back from the beach, Tristan and I went down to the lake with my new dinghy …
Reimagining the Mikvah - by Roz Bellamy
Water meant healing to me from a young age, but pools weren’t always a safe space …
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 …
Eve - by Laura Elvery
My grey jacket – serious, but not a traumatic colour – is standard issue. I push my arms into the sleeves and wait for the list of Carriers to come through on my phone …
Distorted Depiction - by Cassandra Atherton
Picasso says love is dangerous, like a house that’s falling down/
You trace the heart shape around my hairline, fingers coming to/
rest under my pointed chin …
Double Yolker - by Mish Meijers
These are not things you will ever see. Meijers is constructing images and objects that merge politics with theatre (as if that needs to be consciously done). She is allowing us an audience with everything that exists behind closed doors, and she is putting a spotlight on it, and as it stands, sweaty and blinking out at the darkness and forgetting its lines, she is sticking the knife in, and playing for the dramatic finale …
hope thicks the air - by Viv Cutbush
… It’s about the movement of water. Clay, silt, sand and gravel. The skin of a mountain ash tree. It’s about Joan of Arc and hope in the dark. It’s about the futility of words, except without words all we are left with is what goes unsaid …
Ash in Sydney - by Jake Goetz
ash is falling on the Lidcombe line/
on Carriageworks and Regents Park/
it’s falling on closed-up houses /
where Greg thinks his summer’s fucked …
The Teeth and the Curl: A Note to a Cousin - by Robbie Arnott
… You find no cowries by rushing. She told us that, once. Many times. The coarse beach climbing beneath our nails as she spoke. Harsh rocks stubbing our toes into jammy mash when we ignored her and sprinted into the shallows. Oyster shells blading through the skin of our fingers as she said slow down, slow down. You have a whole life …
On the Day You Launch - by Damen O’Brien
This poem won the 2018 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize.
The future of the earth is a series of goodbyes, so you/
practise them in as many languages as you can. Ciao, sayonara./
…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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!) …
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 …
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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Arts Features
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- 2 June 2021 Julie Gough: Tense Past
- 1 June 2021 Tiefenzeit - by Tricky Walsh
- 1 June 2021 Islands and Ships - by Joshua Santospirito
- 1 June 2021 The Intimacy of Daily Life: The News is the Weather - by Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry
- 1 June 2021 Fragments of Place - by Andrew Harper
- 1 June 2021 Beware of Imposters (the secret life of flowers) - by Selena de Carvalho
- 31 May 2021 Welcome Territory - Selena de Carvalho responds to Tanya Lee’s ‘Landing’
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Fiction
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- 8 Oct 2024 Chrysalis – by Lachlan Plain
- 11 Sept 2024 The mystery of the lost hours – by Sue Brennan
- 4 Sept 2024 Masters – by Andrei Seleznev
- 7 Aug 2024 Paan – by Josefina Huq
- 18 July 2024 A major theft – by Emma Rosetta
- 17 July 2024 Devotion – by RT Wenzel
- 10 July 2024 He is the candle – by Lucy Norton
- 10 July 2024 These are no clear directions – by Lars Rogers
- 3 July 2024 Bound – by Liz Evans
- 26 June 2024 Prelude to a flight – by Joel Keith
- 30 May 2024 Dear life – by Susan Francis
- 27 May 2024 Refuse – by Hei Gou
- 15 May 2024 bodytruth – by Orlando Silver
- 15 May 2024 Lux – by Linden Hyatt
- 15 May 2024 Gristle and bone – by Jade Doyle
- 18 Apr 2024 Kevin – by Sarah Langfield
- 18 Apr 2024 Start where you are – by Jenny Sinclair
- 9 Apr 2024 Light hazard – by Sophie Overett
- 14 Mar 2024 Magic – by Maria Takolander and David McCooey
- 4 Mar 2024 The Budgie - by Jing Cramb
- 27 Nov 2023 The Interpreter – by Mariam Tokhi
- 13 Nov 2023 This Time Next Week – by Richard Rebel
- 13 Nov 2023 The Cheesewring – by Campbell Andersen
- 27 Oct 2023 Rat – by Anjelica Rush
- 14 Sept 2023 Nursery – by Nicola Redhouse
- 14 Sept 2023 Home of the Pure Heart, House of the Dying – by Rafael SW
- 21 Aug 2023 Sandcastles – by Ruth Armstrong
- 20 Aug 2023 The Mowing – by Ivy Ireland
- 16 Aug 2023 In the Archives – by Keely Jobe
- 11 Aug 2023 A Thin, Brilliant Line – by Lal Perera
- 6 July 2023 The River Path – by Tadhg Muller
- 6 June 2023 Strokes of White – by Julian Fell
- 23 May 2023 The Blue Fox – by Michael Burrows
- 23 May 2023 How to Kill a Pea – by Lara Keys
- 14 Apr 2023 Dottie and Pin Go Somewhere – by Kate Kruimink
- 29 Mar 2023 The Planet Terrarium - by Philomena van Rijswijk
- 2 Feb 2023 Sloane on the Mountain – by Alexander Bennetts
- 2 Feb 2023 Infrared – by Ryan Delaney
- 2 Feb 2023 The Day the Wave Came – by Paul Mitchell
- 17 Jan 2023 Collateral Damage – by John Tully
- 17 Jan 2023 Philomela – by Orana Loren
- 7 Dec 2022 The Museum – by Gemma Parker
- 7 Dec 2022 The Moths – by Gillian Britton
- 5 Dec 2022 Finger-branches – by Eliza Henry-Jones
- 10 Nov 2022 The Grass Painter – by KA Rees
- 23 Sept 2022 Nithing – by Clayton O’Toole
- 25 Aug 2022 Animal Life of Penang – by Claire Aman
- 25 Aug 2022 Butter – by Daniel Ray
- 15 Aug 2022 Not Gone, Just Different – by Rae White
- 15 Aug 2022 Rigel and Betelgeuse – by A E Macleod
- 1 Aug 2022 Get Joy from GetJoy – by Alex Cothren
- 20 June 2022 No Tomorrow – by Catherine Deery
- 20 June 2022 The Great Aviary of Love – by Kathryn Goldie
- 26 May 2022 Moss – by Jane Rawson
- 14 Apr 2022 Bombera – by Josefina Huq
- 17 Mar 2022 One Man’s Trash – by Piri Eddy
- 2 Mar 2022 Geometry of Lament – by Alicia Sometimes
- 10 Feb 2022 Interiors – by Zac Picker
- 21 Jan 2022 Phantom Menace Hours – by Victoria Manifold
- 21 Jan 2022 Sea Legs – by Sophie Overett
- 23 Nov 2021 Celebrity – by Chris McTrustry
- 5 Nov 2021 Fisher Girls – by Barry Lee Thompson
- 15 Oct 2021 Cake Flat - by Marion May Campbell
- 1 Oct 2021 An Encounter - by Katerina Gibson
- 16 Sept 2021 Captain Boner - by Alex Cothren
- 2 Sept 2021 Into the Clear Blue - by Susan McCreery
- 26 Aug 2021 Surrogate Mother - by Helena Pantsis
- 17 Aug 2021 An August for My July Mother - by Karina Ko
- 10 Aug 2021 The Good Woman - by Anneliz Erese
- 28 July 2021 A Man Alone - by Mark O’Flynn
- 13 July 2021 Boxing Day - by Fiona Robertson
- 2 July 2021 Severe Weather Warning - by Miriam Webster
- 24 June 2021 Three Fragments - by Cameron Hindrum
- 7 June 2021 King of Sweets - by Atul Joshi
- 6 June 2021 Agency - by Tasnim Hossain
- 2 June 2021 Go Get Boy – by Alison Flett
- 1 June 2021 Tiefenzeit - by Tricky Walsh
- 1 June 2021 The Lever, the Pulley and the Screw - by Andrew Roff
- 1 June 2021 The Voices of the Magpies - by Laura McPhee-Browne
- 1 June 2021 The Tick Tock Killer - by Alex Cothren
- 1 June 2021 Birds - by Anne Casey-Hardy
- 1 June 2021 The Wolves - by Josephine Rowe
- 1 June 2021 Cod Opening - by Wayne Marshall
- 27 May 2021 Stingrays - by Christine Kearney
- 25 May 2021 Eve - by Laura Elvery
- 23 May 2021 The Teeth and the Curl: A Note to a Cousin - by Robbie Arnott
- 23 May 2021 Extension - by Anthony Lynch
- 23 May 2021 Okay is a Verb - by Erin Hortle
- 23 May 2021 Into the Flames, Down to Our Shoes, Vienna - by John Saul
- 23 May 2021 Just Maybe - by Dominic Amerena
- 23 May 2021 46 - by Ana Duffy
- 23 May 2021 Apple Suite - by Danielle Wood
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- 22 May 2021 Blackbird - by Magdalena Lane
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Nonfiction
- 31 Oct 2024 The ballet school – by Helena Gjone
- 25 Sept 2024 Great flying soar and in command – by Lily Chan
- 19 Sept 2024 Dhanggal Bawagal: Mussel Sisters – by Michelle Vlatkovic
- 29 Aug 2024 The libraries we must enter, the songs we will sing – by Jamil Badi
- 22 Aug 2024 Girl/Monster – by Simmone Howell
- 14 Aug 2024 Words inside words – by Ouyang Yu
- 24 July 2024 Snakes in the valleys, in their hair – by Ben Walter
- 17 July 2024 Wave and blue – by Beth Kearney
- 26 June 2024 Conversation IV: Permission to witness – by Libby King
- 12 June 2024 Rain Rain – by Indigo Bailey
- 12 June 2024 Clothing the whiteness – by Isabella Wang
- 12 June 2024 The other hand – by Carly Stone
- 12 June 2024 Collection of collections – by Meredith Jelbart
- 12 June 2024 We Were Here – by Sarah Firth
- 30 May 2024 Thrift – by Catherine Zhou
- 27 May 2024 Bog bodies: Iron Age dreamland – by Lucinda Lagos
- 15 May 2024 Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me – by Xiaole Zhan
- 18 Apr 2024 Laptop death – by David Thomas Henry Wright
- 18 Apr 2024 The goose of granite islands – by Suyanti Winoto-Lewin
- 2 Apr 2024 The perfect human – by Niki Bañados
- 1 Apr 2024 In Quarantine – by Megan Clement
- 31 Mar 2024 This Moon – by Megan Coupland
- 14 Mar 2024 Ghost streets – by Alexandra Sangster
- 4 Mar 2024 A thousand gifts – by Maki Morita
- 1 Feb 2024 Gifts from a harsh continent – by Tehnuka
- 11 Dec 2023 The Last Ever Comic to be Published in a Literary Magazine…Ever!!
- 27 Nov 2023 The Hairy Iceberg – by Kylie Moppert
- 27 Oct 2023 Scarface 1–5 – by Kylie Mirmohamadi
- 27 Oct 2023 The Conversation of Weaving – by RT Wenzel
- 14 Sept 2023 Sharehouse Archaeology – by Ale Prunotto
- 14 Sept 2023 In the River – by Searlait O’Neill
- 16 Aug 2023 Hawksbill – by Grace Heathcote
- 11 Aug 2023 Woonoongoora – by Caroline Gardam
- 22 June 2023 Objects of Illness/Recovery – by Anna Jacobson and Katerina Bryant
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- 23 May 2023 Lines of Location – by Johanna Ellersdorfer
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- 28 Apr 2023 Selfish Ghosts – by Heather Taylor-Johnson
- 28 Apr 2023 Sudden, Temporary Deaths – by Chris Fleming
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- 28 Apr 2023 Chaste – by Suri Matondkar
- 14 Apr 2023 Landfall – by Megan Coupland
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- 17 Jan 2023 Learning to Be Tame – by Carla Silbert
- 17 Jan 2023 Rubbish – by Liz Betts
- 8 Dec 2022 Pamirs – by Nathan Mifsud
- 7 Dec 2022 Compare and Contrast – by Gillian Bouras
- 6 Dec 2022 Who Owns the Greek Myths? – by Katerina Cosgrove
- 22 Nov 2022 I Go Down to the Shore – by RT Wenzel
- 22 Nov 2022 The Shimmer of Flying Fox Landscape – by Matthew Chrulew
- 22 Nov 2022 Animal Rescue – by Bastian Fox Phelan
- 22 Nov 2022 In the Rain Shadow – by Jessica Carter
- 22 Nov 2022 The Magpie and the Scarecrow – by Helena Pantsis
- 22 Nov 2022 The Right One to Rescue – by Sharon Kent
- 23 Sept 2022 Far Out, Cats – by M.T. O’Byrne
- 1 Aug 2022 Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Windsor Chairmaking in Tasmania – by Dan Dwyer
- 25 July 2022 Living Poets – by Jessica Lim
- 25 July 2022 An Open Space – by Luke Johnson
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- 14 July 2022 The Sound of Light – by Verity Borthwick
- 14 July 2022 If You Join the Circle, You Must Dance – by Katerina Cosgrove
- 14 July 2022 Hospitality – by Nicole Melanson
- 8 June 2022 The Ocean Sounds Like a Motorway – by Melissa Fagan
- 8 June 2022 The Backyard Project: Notes from Stolen Land – by Lia Hills
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- 8 June 2022 Feel the Quiet – by Zohra Aly
- 8 June 2022 And a Moth Flew Out – by Helena Kadmos
- 8 June 2022 A New Garden – by Erica Nathan
- 26 May 2022 The Third Angel of Chernobyl – by Carmel Bird
- 13 Apr 2022 A Year Without Mirrors – by Sarah Klenbort
- 17 Mar 2022 The Turkeys – by Saraid Taylor
- 2 Mar 2022 Spectral Coordinates – by Brigid Magner
- 10 Feb 2022 Falling Asleep Under the Love Umbrella – by Clare Millar
- 6 Dec 2021 A Waving Forest – by Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn
- 6 Dec 2021 Changing Spots – by Sharon Kent
- 6 Dec 2021 A Questionable Survey of Suburban Eucalypts – by Uthpala Gunethilake
- 6 Dec 2021 The Rats Move In – by Karen A Johnson
- 6 Dec 2021 Fire There Is – by Searlait O’Neill
- 6 Dec 2021 Riverine – by Kavita Bedford
- 24 Nov 2021 How to Be a Better Mother – by Lisa Kenway
- 8 Nov 2021 The Funeral [Farewell Kenny-G] – by W<J>P Newnham
- 28 Oct 2021 6 Years, 6 Months and 24 Days Apart – by Saanjana Kapoor
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Poetry
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- 31 Oct 2024 Visitor Ghazal – by Megan Cartwright
- 14 Oct 2024 1. – by Bobby K
- 22 Aug 2024 The Ascension on a MacBook Air – by Sam Morley
- 14 Aug 2024 The Edit / An Edit – by Michael Farrell
- 7 Aug 2024 Dysesthesia – by Shey Marque
- 24 July 2024 Dinner Call – by Anders Villani
- 3 July 2024 ‘Helen’ by Euripides – by Andrew Sutherland
- 21 June 2024 white nonsense – by Alice Allan
- 19 June 2024 Telegram – by Natalie Susak
- 19 June 2024 new year’s day – by Mitch Cave
- 19 June 2024 Advice and Warnings – by Jill Jones
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- 20 Mar 2024 Posture – by Jo Ward
- 20 Mar 2024 23 vignettes on the rental crisis – by Anna Jacobson
- 20 Mar 2024 Stanzas – by Jo Gardiner
- 20 Mar 2024 Parturition Chairs I-V – by Isabella G Mead
- 20 Mar 2024 Grandmother’s Limbs – by Svetlana Sterlin
- 20 Mar 2024 Friendly fire – by Tricia Dearborn
- 21 Feb 2024 Day 210 – by Brigid Coleridge
- 21 Feb 2024 Shedload – by Chris Andrews
- 21 Feb 2024 Improbable Acts of Proximity – by Shey Marque
- 24 Feb 2023 Sestina After B Carlisle – by Stuart Barnes
- 20 Feb 2023 Antarctica – by Andrew Sutherland
- 20 Feb 2023 The Girls Become – by John Foulcher
- 2 Mar 2022 Jobs for Women: Annunciate – by A Frances Johnson
- 2 Mar 2022 Heating and Cooling in the Time of Isolation – by Jessica L Wilkinson
- 2 Mar 2022 Self-portrait as Frida Kahlo – by Katherine Brabon
- 2 Mar 2022 Exoskeletons – by John Kinsella
- 2 Mar 2022 The Memory of Water - by Amy Crutchfield
- 7 June 2021 In My Father’s House - by Suneeta Peres da Costa
- 2 June 2021 Another Kind of Winter - by Anne Kellas
- 2 June 2021 Water on Rock, Wind in Trees - by Pete Hay
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- 1 June 2021 Thirty Pieces - by A Frances Johnson
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- 31 May 2021 Walking a Forest Trail One Summer Afternoon - by Judith Beveridge
- 28 May 2021 Sunlight / Dear Mum - by Graham Akhurst
- 28 May 2021 Hippophobia - by Chloe Wilson
- 25 May 2021 Tend - by Jo Langdon
- 25 May 2021 Distorted Depiction - by Cassandra Atherton
- 23 May 2021 Ash in Sydney - by Jake Goetz
- 23 May 2021 On the Day You Launch - by Damen O’Brien
- 23 May 2021 What the Glass Holds - by Jill Jones
- 23 May 2021 Ekphrasis - by Belinda Rule
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- 23 May 2021 Pulled Apart by Seahorses - by Gavin Yates
- 23 May 2021 Sonnet 29 - by Stuart Barnes
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