Poetry Archives

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.

Islands

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

By Kathleen Bleakley

Sighting Rottnest

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

By Margaret Merrilees

His grandfather

What was he thinking of, coming here?A new world? A rich initiativeFor a young body raised in an old...

By Thomas Shapcott

The sleepers (from the Futures Museum)

resin, oils, human hair, camphor solution (potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride, water, ethanol, camphor), fishing wireIn this display the artisthas...

By Lisa Gorton

Auntie May, 1953

Twenty years ago last Augustthey had me running down the platform,howling in that flannel dress,those two from the ‘Protection'...

By Geoff Page

Crime scene investigation

The car deaf as a hearsefrom the screaming weightof all that came before,we drive down a tarmac slashedby white...

By Maria Takolander

Suddenly

Suddenly the place is overrun with Europeans.Suddenly there is a Maori in your backyard.Suddenly you need to shit but...

By Lloyd Jones

Sophia Street ghost stories

We sat beading on the couchnecklaces which would carry colourto our vegetarian cosmetic-free skin.No secret we lived in a...

By Heather Taylor Johnson

Best little pub in Australia

The flies lazy on the bottle's rimand the unsuspecting fingeron the walls and tapsand looking at reflectionsin the dust-streaked...

By Heather Taylor Johnson

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