Poetry Archives

High resolve

So I taught myself to run again (again). It’s all about the playlist. Plus the way the cold forgives us, given...

By Alice Allan

soap

Artist Walter Inglis Anderson escaped from the Mississippi State Insane Asylum on 1 April 1939 i. hold, he prayed, and wrenched the sheet...

By Jodie Lea Martire

In America 1979

In America, I was no longer who I thought I was; one time in America, I was a white...

By Lloyd Jones

After three years in Australia

I take for granted going into movie theatres without checking for guns, or sitting as close to the exit as possible, assume now any...

By Haley Zilberberg

The day Khet Thi was tortured to death

after Lou Reed I dreamed – I was the poet laureate of Naypyitaw, the Abode of Generals. The Generalissimo was a poet too. So...

By ko ko thett

The night sky from the surface of Mars

Well, first off, it’s not home. Your sharp intake of breath tells you that, as you clock the horizon-to-horizon stars from the...

By Cate Kennedy

Frederick the Great

When he was young, Frederick the Great tried to flee his tyrannical father By conspiring with his best friend, A young...

By Nick Mansfield

My mother disliked the sea

My mother disliked the sea after we arrived in Australia. She would say, ‘Four weeks on a ship. Waves. Waves. That’s all...

By Peter Skrzynecki

The future

For a moment he was given his future: a prophetic pulse racing to the horizon of his life and washing it...

By Damen O’Brien

2029 Headlines

New Victorian State Bird Symbol Announced Venice Hotel Owners Sell Up National Cancer Detection Implant Program Rolls Out The Anti-Robot Movement Gains...

By Amanda Anastasi

Hummingbirds in the forest of needle and blood

Say there is a boy in a village. Say the boy is not always a boy, but today he...

By Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

Dystopian photo album

Buried in slough of immaculate lust We wave off the iron-man model Coughing up money and fake lottery tix Ipso facto zippers...

By Thurston Moore, John Kinsella