Poetry Archives

Life seemed easier – in the Tampon ads – like go roller-skating or scale a mountain with a heavy...

Thirty lines max, it says. Only twenty-nine left as some wag might have quipped but who’s counting? All bags must be opened for...

By Mark O’Flynn

for Dessi, Thinker Nails (Ubud) Spirit Mama Bali wears a wet shirt. Her honey amber coconuts are unrepentant, and the crescent...

You spend your Centrelink payment on a dinner package to the opera. Madama Butterfly. You rent a suit, tie,...

By Anders Villani

your coming was whispered to me, long-long ago my heart warms and sizzles to have you folded at my roots your arrival...

By Merinda Dutton

celebrate the Year of the Snake with Penfolds! Marshall is marking this Lunar New Year with a special edition Emberton III speaker new...

By Troy Wong

All civilized states have considered it their primary duty to provide for equal weights, measures, and coins – REPORT FROM...

By Isi Unikowski

We are loose now. We peel our skin veil by veil to what lasts longer. To the pulse of...

50p at a West London flea market. rumoured to be worth 10mil. see those ruched metallic folds behind bulletproof glass...

By Rebecca Jessen

Fashions fade away like epidemics once they have ravaged the imagination. – Jean Baudrillard day after day we change into clothes we change...

By Pascalle Burton

I used to ask to be dropped off a block early flee the dumpster that somehow grew wheels evade the goodbyes...

act one i try to write a happy poem but...

By Raelee Lancaster