Poetry Archives

Eating fire

it’s quite okay to eat fire there are rules a trick to it so long as you don’t inhale or...

Definition: wog (n); a thing

A wog is a word for a thing a polliwog, a golliwog a black-face doll – a sailor who has not crossed the...

Creatures

Translated from the original Italian by Julia Anastasia Pelosi-Thorpe I Nothing flimsier, nothing easier: time is lost if I believe we’ll have...

By Julia Anastasia Pelosi-Thorpe, Maria Borio

Aplonis fusca

sing me champagne from the windows sing me a child out of doors sing me pollen on kitchen chairs and straws that...

By Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton

Unicornered

Our dinosaur balloon has lost its pep. For weeks it commandeered the living room. It swayed above its empire like an...

By Jaya Savige

Mother-daughter trip

Nana B and Zeide once ice-skated on a lake in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland. ‘I was made for Poland,’ says...

By Anna Jacobson

How the sky stays above us

I am changing now the congregation of years not age so much as a ripening view and I have started speaking to trees one big...

By Young Dawkins

Bionic enhancements queue

Bionic enhancements queue Every time I go through airport security now the queue is longer. I stow everything I can decently...

By Sandra Renew

Andrew

Their house has the taste of salt Pictures framed for satire Balsamic vinegar ripening Offset with olive oil They know themselves What they love What...

By Anna McGahan

Bashar al-Assad

I asked her to draw her home for me Ben Quilty Using the old cryptographs Heba, at the age of six, has managed...

By Geoff Page

Iris

I was told experience mattered. This is a lie, at least when it comes to light. I’ve drunk decades of it and...

By Omar Sakr

Expert judgment on markers

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves a powerful culture. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to...

By Rose Hunter