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Truants

by Mitch Browne I saw you, fellow relic, when we found each other out. Two truants lying smug in a bolthole meant for one. You were extinct, and I was in uniform; we both were out of bounds in the…

Stephanie Powell

Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm Her latest collection is Invisible Wasp (Liquid Amber Press, 2024). Short-listed for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards Poetry Prize, she is the recipient of the 2024 Woorilla Poetry Prize. atticpoet.com

Tuned In To Echoes Of Home

by Rebecca Carr O, where is the moon? Shades of grey is my sky – she cannot be seen. The darkness has worn heavy, and my thread that connects frays. Memories of 90 Mile Beach – Scattered shells, sand; rock…

Carl Walsh

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…

Rachel Skellett

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…

Neap

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…

Alfreed Fandangle

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…

Jay Young

Jay Young is a freelance writer and editor who lives between Sydney and Istanbul, and he is currently studying professional writing and visual culture at Curtin University. His first poem, ‘Down’, was published in the University of Canberra’s Vice Chancellor’s…

Juukan Gorge – Western Australia

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…

Thomas Simpson

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…