supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
Gregory Piko lives in Canberra, ACT. His writing was awarded First Prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Haiku Competition and joint winner in the WB Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia. His most recent haiku collection is breaking my…
by Gregory Piko If I was to walk down the short concrete path between the squares of neatly mown green grass toward the gate with its freshly painted steel bars glowing white in the sunshine like a neon sign; if…
Veronica Troup is an emerging poet who lives and writes on unceded Boonwurrung Country. Her writing examines ideas of women, invisibility and place. In 2024 she was longlisted for The Grieve Project, Hush Foundation & Liquid Amber Poetry Prize. She…
by Les Wicks The tide isn’t waiting now, it never has. Sometimes that house down by the dock had hated certainties… children appeared then left for jobs in a city which made nothing except money. For the aged man resident…
by Carl Walsh mountains hold names to themselves landscape borrowed transplanted in gardens that twist like lonely water pruned into shape hawk-eyed tombi adjusts air river flows backward caught between forces timbers cut path to near enlightenment feet long to…
Carl Walsh is a neurodiverse poet who lives and writes in Northcote on Wurundjeri Country. Carl’s poetry has appeared in StylusLit, Westerly, Rabbit, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Wales Haiku Journal and Meanjin (amongst others). His first book of poetry, Tarp Green…
by Fred Duncan Drill holes in the spinifex break through the Pilbara crust, Red land/hills, red rocks, red sunset – and red a rusted sign: “NO ENTRY: Rio Tinto” – the irony is thrust On people whose existence must align…
Fred Duncan has worked as a botanist in many parts of Australia – since 1977 in Tasmania. He has strong interests in Gondwanic connections of landscapes and flora, and with his wife Mercedes (from Argentina) has travelled regularly to South…
by Pat Saunders kookaburras sang in far eucalypts her head leant back rang out, across the oval a nervy hand found her hip eyes closed waiting mission brown brick dusted her hair Lynx-diluted sweat filtered through vents high above her…
Kate Olivieri lives in a mountaintop village with a handsome young rebel and mini rebellino in the beautiful Northern Rivers, NSW, Bundjalung Nation country. A poet of many years’ standing, her work is published in Hunter Writers’ Centre Grieve anthologies.…