supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
by Jan Napier bucket upturned. ash cloud. flue open. a match to crosshatched kindling, violet white flame lizard tongues twigs. chimney trickles blue. ceramic portals pried aside, another chunk thrust among the half-charred. kettle set to one side wisps. porridge…
by Tanya Dawes I go after my muse my Beatrice armed with a mustard seed a library and skull I peer inside my inkwell. At it’s frozen depths I sketch evil’s icy reflection write my way through the syntax of…
by Tanya Dawes We walked in silence Round the empty school yard And back. On my third try She let me take her hand. The streets were wide Angle parking both sides Footpaths lined with elm trees Centenarian trees Once…
by Jan Napier While I was out it hatched split and quit its chrysalis on a first leaf dull wet wings folded to a thorax boxy and squat. lumpen stubby moveless till moonlight wrote silver on russet limned antennae fanned…
Jan Napier is a Western Australian writer. Her poem ‘Early: A Morning’ won the 2023 KSP Poetry Prize. Jan lives with a cat and tries to grow poems green and graceful as her ferns.
Laurie Keim’s recent volumes of poetry are Writing On Air (2015), Future of Music (2020) and Between The Mirror And The Bed (2024) His stories have been shortlisted in 2024: Bournemouth Flash Fiction, Sorrento Creative Writing Prize and 500 Flash.…
Craig Lincoln is a poet from Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia, who especially enjoys writing Japanese style poetry. His poems have been included in various poetry anthologies, including three of the Yamada Basho Memorial publications.
by Laurie Keim Always there in the same place they cannot run from crisis check out how they bend and twist of all things, torsion of the pole-vaulter, pom-poms of the cheerleader, throwing themselves into the tearing wind. One ear…
Tanya Dawes is a writer from Melbourne. Her childhood was spent roaming the Gippsland countryside. She studied Professional Writing and Editing. Her story ‘Dumping Ground’ was published in Westerly Magazine, WA University, in 2017. In 2024, Tanya’s ten-minute play ‘Snow…
Alleyne Hall has been a member of the Time to Write group through Baw Baw Arts Alliance. Writing poetry for about ten years, she creates poems and narratives, with a focus on nature and spiritual matters, travel and family. She…