Joe Dolce: Little Blue Book
Little Blue Book We were both eleven or twelve, shared desks at St Mary’s Bible study class, reading …
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Dennis Haskell: Two Poems
Numbers Another Christmas, another New Year’s Eve, the world sparks, searching for hope and serene times, but I …
Carolyn Evans Campbell: Two Poems
Eye to Lizard Eye We sit I on my rock you on yours frozen in sunlight I hold as still …
Les Murray: Half-Price Hardback
Half-Price Hardback As the bookshops die in country towns it’s department stores that stock reader shelves with detective fiction with hetero …
Hal G.P. Colebatch: Two Poems
A Restoration? In January 2017, the regional court of Wuppertal, Germany, acquitted Arab arsonists guilty of …
Geoff Page: Four Poems
One twenty over eighty Systolic / Diastolic— I’m watching the machine. I like the sound and science of …
Gabriel Fitzmaurice: Three Poems
A Teacher Hopes It’s not that he’s stupid, It’s not that he’s a pup, It’s not that he’s …
Cecilia Morris: Sestina
Sestina There was her diary unveiling my father’s secret, she was aware of his visits when she’d …
Patrick McCauley: Two Poems
Shadows We who are “we” my mother my father my children we have fallen apart my daughter wanders in the wilderness and …
Saxby Pridmore: Four Poems
Our Street Our poor mangy bloody street. If it was a dog you’d put it out of its misery. …
Ivan Head: Two Poems
Song of the Actuarial Dollar Chicken Soft generic birds you roast well after you have laid cartons of eggs …
Vivian Smith: Three Poems
A Note to Alvaro You can be happy in Australia as long as you don’t go …
Suzanne Edgar: Three Poems
The Fragrance of Lemons for Sarah Colquhoun I loved the Meyer lemon tree planted by my neighbour friend, a …
Moya Pacey: Two Poems
Larkman All the fledgling lark knows is the dark wooden box nailed shut but for two …
Paul Williamson: On a Branch
On a Branch A finely tiger coloured sporran of bees with over a thousand animal souls a swarm …
Brenda Saunders: Two Poems
Channel Country Each year big rains leave the Diamantina in flood. Water spreads into channels sinks in slow …
Tina Kane: Melbourne Morning
Melbourne Morning for Chris Nicholson As I sat resting on a back verandah a warm morning after the …
John Whitworth: Freedom
Freedom Think fredome mair to prys Than all the gold in warld that is We saw the invaders …
Alan Gould: Four Frivolities
Four Frivolities 1. Ballad for the Fart Tax. (5/9/2003, Farmers blocked the streets of New Zealand’s capital, …
Joe Dolce: Three Poems
Houston Riot of 1917 Gentlemen and generals, members of the Bar, I ask you to hear and …