Journal
Articles
keyhole
wearing today like it is your last. sip of sunlight. wearing today like an impatient scream. a stent that...
Embracing ugly feelings
THE FIRST TIME I was hospitalised, my mother visited me in the dank psychiatric ward bearing a three-tiered lacquer...
This Her Thing
I DRIVE PAST where Mum died and I feel the tractor beam of that place, the urge to pull...
The perennity of love
AS THE PANDEMIC begins to bite in March 2020, many people report exceptionally vivid dreams, recurring nightmares. The phenomenon...
Faith and trust and pixie dust
SO YOU’VE LEARNT some counselling techniques. Skills, pacing and rhythms to use in any conversation. Let’s recap – I’ll keep being...
There is a green hill
I’D BEEN IN the house on Abbeyfield Road in Sheffield less than a week when Jack first arrived. It...
Afterwards
The body of Raleigh May, sixty-seven, lies in an open casket in the chapel of the Craig-Hurtt Funeral Home...
A recombinant history of Australian camels
The image of the camel is consistently drawn from Australian archives (consistency, like visibility, is one of Calvino’s ‘six memos’ or values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into our millennium).
The Backstory #3: Returning fire to Australia’s landscapes
I speak to Aboriginal people on the ground about how they are reconnecting with traditional practices that have been used for thousands of years to prevent destructive fires and revitalise the bush landscape.
Create, destroy, reset
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Create, destroy, reset’. WE’RE TERRAFORMING, MY son and me. We’ve done this in...
The crimson line
Trent Parke’s latest series, The Crimson Line, continues his fascination with the transformative powers of light – particularly the...
‘A poem is a unicycle’
IN LATE 2020, Barbara Kingsolver published How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons), her first poetry collection in...
