supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
by Rohan Buettel The tragedy of great undertakings lies in their coming to an end. Constantine XI Palaiologus fighting at the city walls in fourteen fifty-three, dying while resisting to the last. What remained of fifteen centuries of a Roman…
by Helen Genoni-Farnham He was a very old man by then, stooped, with a cane and ready smile. Said he’d found it on a railway station in Melbourne somewhere. “I’ll give it to you if you like it.” I took…
by Pauline Cleary Shadowy, cloudy day; sprawling trees mesh together in a canopy. I crouch amongst the sprawl of asparagus fern; sticky, invasive, conquering. On my knees, I slither into the undergrowth, seizing handfuls of weeds, ripping them from their…
by Suzi Mezei The lithe dog is tethered to a post, where other lithe dogs with lineage are also tethered under the lemon-tinted arches of a mall, where shops and office space reach up towards sapphire sky, where humans prowl…
by Maria Bonar Delicate, feminine adorned with sparkling sand and shell grit A flotilla of tiny shells like babies’ fingernails cling to you When the tide surges you become your own coracle float on the waves, upside down wedded to…
by Kellie Asmussen A different scent visited me before. This one, I learnt in Nam over two weeks of shared meals and numerous Tiger Beers. Still, I stopped and searched knowing you were near. I felt it again within a…
Mike Greenacre lives in Perth, W.A. He has published poems in Australia, UK & USA. In 2016 he won equal first prize in the Creatrix Poetry Prize and in 2019, his poem ‘Missing Pieces’ won first prize in the Tom…
Ross Jackson is a retired teacher resident in Perth who has had poetry published in Westerly, Cordite, Poetry Australia Anthology, Rabbit Poetry, Poetry New Zealand and in many other literary journals and websites. His collection, Time alone on a quiet…
Peter Roberts is an Australian poet who enjoys poetry that bounces and surprises, and that most of all is accessible. Peter has been published in a range of national and international journals, including Quadrant, The Beatnik Cowboy, W-Poesis & Catchment.…
Yvette Stubbs is an award-winning published poet and a well-respected matriarch of the Melbourne poetry scene, renowned from La Mama Poetica, to Passionate Tongues, to the Dan O’Connell. After four appearances in 2019 at Scotland’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in…