Issue Five • Poetry • Uncategorised
June 8, 2018
By Michelle Cahill City of seven islands, guarded by eight-armed Mumbadevi, of the Dravidians, Marathis and Gujaratis, your name alludes to...
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Issue Five • Non-Fiction • Uncategorised
By Angela Wauchop What do you take for granted? Imagine being terrified in your own home, your street, your neighbourhood. Imagine...
Issue Five • Poetry
By Eileen Chong I Born a girl. By my father’s word, plate of ash untouched— Needle and silk: opaline peacocks, burning phoenixes. Last...
By Chelsea Dingman I open the windows to the house—humid air like a deer’s breaths in the spring rain. Streetlights flit off...
By Lizz Murphy From Aleppo – Rivers of blood women and children… viewed December 2016. From People smuggling – Turkey, Greece...
By Lizz Murphy In response to the article ‘Russian travel company wants to sell tours to the front line of Syrian civil war’...
Sugihara By Moya Pacey In 1941, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, helped Jews leave by issuing them...
By Ali Whitelock (First published in Ali Whitelock’s debut poetry collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’...
By Ramon Loyola Note: ‘Where the feet have been’ is the last part of Ramon’s ‘suburban walkabout’ trilogy, with ‘You...
By Anita Patel Artwork by Kathryn Lamont. ...
By Jenny Blackford (First published in Jenny’s poetry collection, ‘The Loyalty of Chickens (Pitt Street Poetry, 2017).) Artwork by...
By Jenny Blackford (First published in Jenny’s poetry collection, ‘The Loyalty of Chickens’ (Pitt Street Poetry, 2017). Also...
By Sandra Renew (First published in 100 tanka by 100 poets of Australia and New Zealand (eds. Amelia Fielden, Beverley George and...
By Nessa O’Mahony His regular spot; curled foetus-tight, back to the wall at the end of the canal, near the bridge at Baggot...
By Ellen Shelley Artwork by Jackie Benney. Published with permission of the artist....
by Richard James Allen Only weeks, months, at the most a year or so, before Gough Whitlam’s ‘It’s Time’ changed everything, for a...
By Geoff Budden The tides and capes of Bonavista now safely astern, Newfoundland below the western horizon they sailed into the new...
By Bill Cotter Artwork by Kathryn Lamont....
By Jeremy C. North ...
By Duncan Richardson Artwork by Kathryn Lamont....
Issue Five • Reviews
Reviewed by Wendy J. Dunn Each lace shawl begins and ends the same way – with a circle. Everything is connected with a thread as fine...
Interviews • Issue Five
Interview by Nik Shone. What motivated you to start writing and what draws you to historical fiction? I always wanted to be a...
Interviewer: Savannah White. Kathryn Gauci was born in England and studied textiles where she specialised in carpet design. After...
Fiction • Issue Five
By Samuel Bernard Williams © 2017 1700 hours – Eleventh of May, Nineteen hundred and forty three ‘Passes chaps,’ the corporal...
By Carol Major I am here in Malaysia with Hugh. I know we will fight. This is because he is the son of the last British Advisor in...
By Carol Major In Sydney’s inner west, nine-year old Crisanto is following Mrs Linden and Earl. He has been watching them for the last...
Review by Jayme Constandino At the crux of it, The Tides Between is a story about self discovery. The narrative follows young girl Bridie...
Issue Five • Reviews • Uncategorised
Reviewed by Skye Jenner. This book isn’t the kind that I normally read. That’s not to say that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy it. But it...
Fiction • Issue Five • Uncategorised
The Embroiderer can be bought at all good bookshops and online at amazon and book depository. During the early hours of Wednesday,...
Interview by Madeleine Reid. Pickle to Pie is the story of a second-generation Australian of German descent, Frederick...
