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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

The Landscaper

You begin by describing the weather – hot, always hot – and your neighbour’s recently deceased lawn, how the young...

By Isabella G Mead

hey, gov’nor

hey, gov’nor state corps(e) 21st century station manager hey, gov’nor green coat drill-­panted protector of white four-­ wheeled empire Country will evict youwe will still be...

By Cheryl Leavy

‘I’d put faith in that stock’

‘These nine micro- cap stocks are tipped to surge in 2024’ says AFR. & says the sign for the micro-cap conference with somewhat prophetic weight: Trade for Good – the...

By Joel Keith

I swivel in my office chair

– my own private merry-­go-round of anti-­corp defiance. HR disapproves. I am put on probation for not writing enough poems. This is not...

By Rae White

Europe

‘Have you been to Europe?’ He said it just like that, as if Europe was a bar around the corner. ‘Four...

By Thomas Gloyn, Rae White

Lost eyes

My eyes are lost in the past. I am hiding in my past, your past, my great-grandfather’s past. Our lost...

By Catherine Johnstone

Genealogy: 2

1983 in the mountains of smoke haze & roads hacked through sandstone, your father declares after trekking alone for hours, he made...

By Nigel Featherstone

Foxola

It isn’t small – a medium size female and no plaything. To reduce, make diminutive as panting with heat, potential of storms, build...

By John Kinsella

Mushrooms

In the dark, out of damp black loam, they’ve sprung back in their bonnets and straw hats. Pale arms dusted by the...

By Gavin Yuan Gao

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