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The Road to Bacchus

by Jonathan Cant after ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost Along forgotten forest ways There’s Dionysus in prior form. That holy calf of Thracian days— I’m held within his ghostly gaze, The god who was by Titans torn. Upon…

Wayne Pollard

Wayne Pollard has been writing poetry for 25 years. Leading a group called Demented Echidnas (in West Gippsland), he has published a zine called Thoughts of a tired mind. Having won an open mike competition at Drouin’s Ficifolia Poetry Night,…

Watchman

by Glenn McPherson after Aeschylus When morning arrives black wings Finally leave you. The downdraft stumbles, turns For a moment, startled by A child’s cough, And the woman’s face, blue As though burned, ice-like, Beneath a frozen river. In the…

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

by Fred Duncan Auroras pulse and shimmer on Spitsbergen’s Isfjord, And midnight suns reflect on rock and ice and snow; Deep within the frozen ground, life and wealth are stored: A bank of seeds from field and forest, plain and…

The Trees Are Tested Too

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…

Ballajura

by Maria Bonar Hot westerly, dry windswept garden. My red and white striped pool towel snaps and blows on the washing line. From the corner of my eye I see something furry with a tail, scurry over the wall. I…

Vanessa Proctor

Vanessa Proctor lives and writes on the land of the Darramuragal people in Sydney. She holds an MA in Creative Writing. She is currently working on a book of haiku and a memoir. Her first book of free verse On…

Craig Lincoln

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.

Garden Tails

by Maria Bonar Willie wagtails share my garden, with doves honeyeaters and a bobtail lizard. We live in harmony until my grandson’s cat Stacey visits. Last year, she caught a fledgling wagtail. This time, the wagtails show their fury at…

Laurie Keim

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.…