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.
Flowers and fruit
This arrangement like any other, each the simulacrum of before.
Languages
the sky keeps no secret but a rainbow
A recipe for Rote Grütze
I imagine you as a young woman here in this foreign place trying to learn a language your children brought home from school.
Snowman
the hardest part about going to antarctica is coming back after two years to a six-year-old daughter who screams when you...
A Lullaby Made From Ice
The closest I’ve ever come to an iceberg is at the bottom of a dime bag. Me, a climate...
A badly researched history of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, headed by Douglas Mawson, explored the Antarctic coast between 1911 and 1914. After losing a sled...
Expedition to Blood Falls, Victoria Land
I used to catch fish in jam jars and hide in hedges. I slept in trees like a lemur and dreamt of...
Old gods
Our old gods they are called false they are cut from the land like a mountain nothing holds firm the...
They cannot say their thoughts
(or, If Cohen sang Oodgeroo)
Dance me to the rhythm of a language (I don’t speak) ’Neath sapphire-misted mountains they might kill (ya) Breathe out brokin...
the sweet lie
my ancestors peer towards dry land from the deck of a ship; or are they like swine, packed into the...
Kangaroo Island 1819
The fucker’s hanging in the air. The rope’s as black against the light as his black skin, though his skin...
Q/A
U like America? No U like China? No U like Australia? Sort of U like what about Australia? A small country pretending to be bitter than it is,...
