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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.

Sorry Rocks

At Uluruthe postman returns rocksthat look like they’ve beenchipped off a sunset.They arrive in padded bags,shoeboxes, take-away containersfrom all...

By Anna Krien

Circumstances

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

Barry

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

By CK Stead

Missing persons

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

By Craig Sherborne

Vanellinae

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

By Josephine Rowe

Hospice

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

An abstract art

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

By WH Chong

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