The Voice of Pablo Neruda
I live, I still live, and I think many of us live inside the world …
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Cally Conan-Davies: Sister
Sister When my sister slipped away her slippers fell downstairs slapping the sleeping dog’s nose. She patted him back …
Valerie Murray: Wheelchair Vista
Wheel Chair Vista The view is not good; no eye contact, except with other wheelies, or little children, ready to …
David Mason: The Last Voyage
The Last Voyage They came at us with rocks and spears, the oldest of our soldiers falling …
Joe Dolce: Sense of Out-of-Place
Sense of Out-of-Place Barbecue. Unincorporated community in North Carolina. Bastardstown. Townland in Wexford, Ireland (Irish name: Baile Bhastaird). Batman. City, in …
Pascale Petit: Serpentarium
Serpentarium She can fit a thirty-foot giant into one sheet of A4, pack pythons into her sketchbook, squeezing their loops in …
John Whitworth: Five Poems
Going for a Burton I hear you sighing through the curtain. I see you singing on the …
The Civil Tongue of Richard Wilbur
Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study by Robert Bagg & Mary Bagg University of Massachusetts …
Ted Witham: Two Poems
Homework In the darkness, a grey gaggle of teenage boys, joshing, jostling, explosions of cheap expletives, a fog of …
Hal G.P. Colebatch: Learning of the death of the Circus Girl
Learning of the death of the Circus Girl Your family had been Circus for generations. When …
Geoff Page: Two Poems
A Single Sparrow The present life of man, O king, seems to me like to the …
Ron Pretty: Peacocks
Peacocks When the rain came that afternoon, I put on the Emperor. At first I thought it was …
Brian Turner: Lineage
Lineage You’ve heard it said, or seen it inferred, we never lose our parents and only ever find …
Myra Schneider: Five Poems
Cushion Moss The sad paragraphs in the paper offer no answers but they fade a little once …
John Forbes and the Lure of the Heroic Journey
This year is the twentieth anniversary of the death of the Australian poet John Forbes. …
Pascale Petit: Two Poems
Jaguar Girl Her gaze is tipped with curare, her face farouche from the kids’ asylum where ice baths failed to …
Joe Dolce: Two Poems
The Great Male-versus-Female Guitar Contest of 1933 Little Lizzy Douglas (they called her the kid), was born …
Andrew Lansdown: Five Poems
On the Composition of Haiku i The haiku master— labouring past the moment to seize the moment. ii Counting syllables— the …
Dan Guenther: The Whale Watcher’s Road, Moreton Bay
The Whale Watcher’s Road, Moreton Bay The Humpbacks have a way of knowing beyond our ken, their biomagnetic …
Valerie Murray: Epic Lunar Perigee
Epic Lunar Perigee The skin of Earth itches, twitches, wrinkles as tectonic plates move. Volcanic acne spew lava, …