Jack Lio

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Jack Lio is a writer of fiction and poetry based in Naarm (Melbourne). His novel manuscript Apparitions was shortlisted for the Glendower Award for an Emerging Writer at the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards. 

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Palio De Siena

Poetry In the Tuscan city of Siena for seven hundred years  this annual race has run to settle rivalries between citizens of its seventeen contradas,municipal divides of  this medieval city where beauty and barbarity are indivisible and do not pretend to be otherwise, and have no wish...

Survey

FictionBut I have long lost my personal thread to this place, I realise, and thinking of this loss I almost feel mournful for a former life I see now as though in the third person, a life belonging to an altogether different man. Perhaps it is for the best that those old threads are cut, for it means I am free of them.

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