Articles Archive

Journal

Articles

Dead Sea Psalms

The moon and sun cohabit the sky. The world turns.Outside the citadel, a child climbs the tamarisk.From the topmost...

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

The field marker

OUR FATHER, WHO survived the Killing Fields, would never let me travel to South-East Asia when I was a...

By Alice Pung

Don Quixote in Shanghai

'GLAD YOU MADE it,′ said my friend. 'I cannot but believe,′ said I to myself, 'that when the history...

By Kate Holden

Study for the weather station

WE DIDN'T KNOW so much; we knew how to touch. We unpacked our boxes in the box on the...

By Luke Davies

Mind, body and age

ON THE DAY of my birth, Boxing Day, 1921, something seemed wrong in the small rented brick house in...

By Donald Horne (dec.)

Scapho is Greek for boat

WE HAVE PUSHED our way through the strong heat of Adelaide's hottest summer since nineteen-o-something to get here, but...

By Tracy Crisp

Who put the overalls in Mrs Murphy’s chowder?

EVERY WORK OF fiction, regardless of length or genre, is to some extent a kind of mystery offered to...

By Carmel Bird

Return of the moonbirds

THE WIND OFF the sea blows hard and it is savagely cold, despite it being midsummer. It is 8...

By Lyn Reeves

Neglecting the body

"TAKE UP GOLF," they said. Both of them within the space of a week. The acupuncturist and the alternative...

By Michael Wilding

Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review.