supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
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…
Rachel Skellett is an aspiring poet living in Goomburrup, Bunbury, Western Australia. Rachel acknowledges the Wardandi Noongar Aboriginal people who have lived in the South West for over 45 000 years. Inspired by their knowledge of the land, native flora…
by Thomas Simpson In open air between tall wetland grass shaking off the smothering wet of weeks in dense forest, mud and growling feral pigs make way for sand and the unreachable sound of rolling waves, somewhere beyond the skeletal…
Thomas Simpson is a poet and sound artist based in Western Australia. He is a PhD candidate at Deakin University, completing a project combining walking, embodiment, and soundscape ecology in south-west WA. His first collection of poetry, Bone Picker, was…
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…
Alfreed Fandangle was born and raised, and continues to live, in South-East Queensland. His poetry is rich with reference, literary history, high and low culture, pop music, and more. It has been described as, ‘ricocheting around the page like sonic…
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.…
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…
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…