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.
Opposite day
Today is opposite day yesterday was Thursday, an ordinary day but today – is different the poor are rich the rich fight over...
Intensifier
It’s strange that a dog barking at the beach becomes a cause for concern. Those nearby look around for...
The bee box
You made this; working with wood and mortar to build nesting sites for native bees – the leafcutter, the resin, the blue-banded. For some...
Le Méridien
8 a.m. poolside, two women rolling cigarettes like a production line. This hotel full of Russians with grapefruit-hard stomachs and bar tabs the...
The light we cannot see
I am the way into the city of woe, I am the way into eternal pain, I am the way to...
Coal and meter
The poet digs down a decade with her plastic pen, rests by the ancient seam, Earth’s little little black dress boudoir-veined. Poet and...
keyhole
wearing today like it is your last. sip of sunlight. wearing today like an impatient scream. a stent that...
Three poems
How to have a child Begin on the day you decide you are fit to carry on. Begin with a quailing heart for here...
urgent biophilia
wrist-deep in dirt for something less particular satisfaction more tasty than butter lettuce wilting kale curling towards sun cabbage grubs chew chew chewing cabbage butterflies...
The Biyula novels
We pause in front of a fallen eucalypt blackened trunk glistening with charcoal grids decode species-information: the time of its seeding and the...
Qualifying ode to experience
‘The world is all that is the case.’ Wittgenstein but not a newsfeed, not really... A person isn’t a noun or an...
Stone. Tongue.
i. Evening falls, and rooms grow dark, then light. Through the open window, a cricket starts up its whirring. Steam rises from the...
