Poetry Archives

Lee Miller's Famous FotoShe was in the bathbeautifully readywhen the phone rang.Her boots, bloodedwith the mud of Auschwitz,stood to...

By CK Stead

Ringing on a Sunday yourLondon doorbell holding the bookour friend Max insistsyou must have by handI find you like...

By CK Stead

– Don't look them in the eye, she said. They find it confronting. With your build you scream dominant...

You know, chimps?They sure as Christ know youThat genus with answersThey've scoped you for yearsYes, you. For millenniaChimps with...

By Kent MacCarter

Again clouds balloon across the sky,Restoration ladies lifting swelled skirtsto piss in casual passingon the mud-running gutter of creeks.Daisies...

By Peter Hansen

Peacetime or warthere are deserters to round up,warrants to be issuedby the clerk of rules. In the riotless cityof fashionable...

By Craig Sherborne

And I know now, about the birds – their Latin name, theirpopulation and international distribution. I know their migratory patterns...

By Josephine Rowe

You never tire of the sky,caught within the frame and sash,spun sugar, your tongue can almost tastebefore it melts...

By Laura Jan Shore

Only recently did it occur to me that she might have dreamt a different life, a creativity not bound...

IM Emily Kame Kngwarreye Outrageous, the flag of beautyas day revolves to night, a skythick with stars that fall like...

By WH Chong

i dream of islands, glass-bottom boats, waters clearand safe as houses before they're bombedfish scales, slippery as yesterday's newsi...

Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) – 32°S 115°31'E – 18 km off shore – Western Australia AUTUMN rough serious blue seapale sky, pale...