Issue Five • Issue Five Poetry • Poetry
June 8, 2018
By Ramon Loyola Twenty years in the forest in the faces and breaths, not in the last century or in the now of times, my...
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By Anita Patel How many borders will you cross to reach this land? How many doors will you close – forever? How many...
By Jenny Blackford Our handyman, friend of an old friend, was life support for many years to our decaying inner-city house. One day,...
By Jenny Blackford The flowers in the garden of the inner-city Muslim school are kangaroo paws just like mine at home- ...
By Sandra Renew she still remembers the brass teapot trampled under soldiers’ boots but then retrieved dusted off 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 On an ordinary day the water stills the air waves fall silent birds on parachute wings spiral to gorund...
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 It is a travesty of dawn, this dank And oily semi light, oozing through The alleys, the shattered windows and...
By Jeremy C. North This evening, intrepid plans are forged. A familiar tune of starry-eyed wanderlust that emanates from share flat...
By Duncan Richardson they knew it was him though the fish had scribed their own verses on his skin they knew it was him from...
Issue Five • Issue Five Book Reviews • 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 • Issue Five Interviews
Interview by Nik Shone What motivated you to start writing and what draws you to historical fiction? I always wanted to be a writer,...
Interviewer: Savannah White Kathryn Gauci was born in England and studied textiles where she specialised in carpet design. After...
Fiction • Issue Five • Issue Five Fiction
By Samuel Bernard © 2017 1700 hours – Eleventh of May, Nineteen hundred and forty three ‘Passes chaps,’ the corporal asked...
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...
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...
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...
by DANYELLE GUYATT A stage play based on the fairy-tale Hansel and Gretel (1812) by the Brothers Grimm EXT. ALEPPO. DAY Two siblings,...
By Anita Patel Ah Mui feeds me my breakfast egg—savoury brown laced with “kecap”. She mixes it in a glazed bowl patterned with...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… and I was lifted reluctantly into the boat as it ploughed into the sea. On the beach the men I knew from...
By Senaj Alijevski What sparked your interest in immigration? This is an important theme in your novel. Does the history behind the...
BY SENAJ ALIJEVSKI After countless times of sending my resume to places that were hiring, I finally found one that suited my...
An excerpt from ‘Arcadia Abroad’ By Amanda Pearson November, 1993 The Irish Sea The boat is listing starboard, the sun, barely...
By Jeremy C. North Back in my war-torn homeland, everyone in the neighbourhood was like family. I couldn’t imagine life apart from...
Fiction • Issue Five
By Jane Downing ‘What was your very first memory, tell it to me,’ Frank commanded Billy. Billy lay on his stomach on the cell...