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 …
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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, …
Liz McQuilkin: Two Poems
David They buried him in a spanking new graveyard between two concrete paths: a man who loved the bush nurtured …
Joe Dolce: Two Poems
An Interesting Little Girl An interesting little girl ... The Argus read. Further down, … hearing she was …
Valerie Murray: Confeatheration
Confeatheration The mud-bank off the Island mid-river, Enlarged at low tide Gathers water-birds in a Meeting, often presided By up to …
Gary Hotham: Ten Haiku
Ten haiku under the duck decoy the pond mixes rain thru the fog our pitter-patter for each other stronger in the spring …
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 …
Ken Stone: Family Photograph, 1949
Family Photograph: 1949 I’m with my family in Peak Hill Park. I’m five and in my smooth …
Margaret Bradstock: Three Poems
Brief* Garden Here I sit, in my lamplit bungalow, with the warm thick rain drumming …
Andrew Lansdown: Four Poems
These Astonishments Cosy Corner, southern coast, Western Australia Surmounting the dune I observe in the same instant in the …
Sarah Tiffen: Motherlode
Motherlode We drove along the highway, she sleeping, me thinking and listening to radio talk, stories of …
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 …
Why Australia Needs a Poet Laureate
Australia Needs a Poet Laureate Steven Schwartz[1] Oxford-educated and possessed of considerable charm, Michael Massey Robinson was …
Hal G.P. Colebatch: Janice B.
Janice B. Seventeen years old. I kissed you, And you kissed me, And (it seems unbelievable When I look back) I …
Ivan Head: Flowers on the Bridge
Flowers on the Bridge St Joseph Cupertino pray for us At speed on the motorway I see with …