Poems
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Confetti by Dada
By Felicity Plunkett'a lie that I have FIXED like a butterfly on a hat’
(Tristan Tsara)
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TikTok Dance
By Maxine Beneba ClarkeDab, dab, shuffle, slide,
left, right, left.
Shuffle, slide, dab, dab,
twirl, kick, step. -
(En)Joy rides in police cars
By Andrew GalanDad was certified dead Christmas day
septicaemia mixed by schizophrenia, alcohol, and restraint
in Long Bay maximum security psychiatric hospital
mum didn’t tell -
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Entanglement
By Toby FitchI am watching myself untangle
my earphones, my body’s walk paused,
standing on the corner of Bedford and Probert
beneath mini grotesques on the roof -
Ghazal for Staying Safe
By Munira Tabassum Ahmedwhich is to say we prosper until we are not safe,
all of this, worth it even when we are not safe.
I ask where you are going, what roads bend aside -
Evensong
By Lachlan BrownO to be back in the southwest at dusk,
beneath the red streaks that sometimes
line the sky with spray tan enthusiasm.
This is the day worn thin, -
the poem begins with a breathing reef
By Eunice Andradaa new cemetery blooms in the heat
we search for the last traces of colour -
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Literature
By Damon Young1. The Green Room
‘Reading is a moral force.’ – novelist
known for writing -
Postcards of Colonial Ghosting
By Sam Wagan Watson, Sigbjørn Skåden(1 of 3) Frost In the Ground
A reindeer herder stood on a beach and looked out to sea. It was springtime, her reindeer had come to this place to give birth. Up on the moors snow had begun to give way to open patches of moss, an archipelago of birth places, and from the sea a welcoming breeze came in, a forerunner of the season to come. As I walked … -
Glad wrap is death and everything is on fire
By Laurie MayI don't know how to write anymore
I don't write anymore
I'm not sure if writing has become a luxury
Falling wayside to practical things -
Makes You Stronger
By Nina OyamaA man once showed me around a sharehouse
and whenever he showed me a bad part he said
but hey, makes you stronger.
So the sink pipes are rotten. But hey, makes you stronger. -
An evening melody
By Tenzin ChoegyalThis is an evening song for you.
I know it’s difficult to be simple.
This is an evening song for you -
Like the moon in the water, -
Floorboards
By Evie WyldThe dog’s foot scratches on the wood
that the men put in
clay pipes in mouths,
their moustaches and hats. -
Tiny Roar
By Omar MusaSilken snapdragons, swaying on stalk tower,
open their mouths. The tiny roars of colour
— sherbet, red velvet, purple wine — bees waltz
in haloes around them, sever the thread from earth -
Things to do (Heart)
By Jordie Albistona. Find heart, and place hand upon it. b. Time
to metronome beat. c. Empty above of all
things earthly. d. Fill with compassion. e. Sleep. f.
Remove heart while comatose, and g. wrap -
War and Peace
By Maria TumarkinWho knew war would be the time of neologisms,
so linguistically fertile.
(Specify which war. You’re in Australia.)
On Russian TV the topdog propagandist coins ‘to macron’, -
Good Vibes Only!
By Nat’s What I ReckonI see you in the bar window
Shining so bright
With a seeming list of demands -
Portrait of a Genderkweer on Fire
By Ellen van NeervenAfter Céline Sciamma
Addicted to the sunset after burning
I gather with my cousins and lover and
