Issue Eight

The Divide

By Anthony Lawrence   While the other boys were drawing their guns and falling into the ruins of an open pavilion of sky and pines, I...

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Moses

By J.W. Burns   hunched against the orange sky, a white horizon nibbling at his bowels. Far below, his sheep hungry, thirsty, horny to...

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Anthony Lawrence

  Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poetry and a novel. His books and individual poems have won a number of awards, most...

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The Colour Grey

By Bernadette Gallagher.   He talked of grey, of blue, purple and all the possible pigments that make up grey. He talked of trees, of...

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J.W. Burns

  JW Burns lives in Florida. Recent publications in Rialto, Adelaide, Menacing Hedge and The Squawk Back....

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Bernadette Gallagher

  Bernadette Gallagher was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1959 and has been living in the countryside of Co. Cork since 1986. She worked...

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Les Wicks

  Les Wicks achieved the rank of Assistant Station Master in the the 1980s . He qualified in basic accounting, signal box operation,...

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Eden (breaking free)

By Matthew M.C. Smith   Dream on a breeze of summer eve’s tree-dappled light Do not fear the advancing shadows Let Autumn storms...

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Anna Forsyth

  Anna Forsyth is an editor, poet and event manager. In 2014, she founded Girls on Key, a feminist poetry organisation, that now hosts...

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Matthew M.C. Smith

  Matthew M C Smith is a poet from Swansea, Wales. He is particularly interested in mythic, historic, cosmic and neo-romantic poetry....

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Threads Entwined

By Bernadette Gallagher   For John Philip   You came already formed a silken scarf blowing in the wind.   To unravel would...

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Interview with Lliane Clarke

Interviewer: Samuel Elliott What is Voices of Women? Voices of Women is a not for profit organisation to support new work by Australian...

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Julien’s Terror by Laura Rahme.

Reviewed by Thomas Van Essen.   Laura Rahme, Sydney-based writer of The Ming Storytellers(2012) and The Mascherati: A Novel of...

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Drucilla Wall

  Drucilla Wall’s book of poetry is The Geese at the Gates, published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. Her co-edited collection, Thinking...

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Intangible Flight

By Robyn Rowland   whirling Dervish, Istanbul   Unworn as any adolescent son, the youngest Mevlani Dervish trembling on the cusp...

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THE GREEN FIELD

by Sue Robertson We were in our front field, shepherding our little flock of sheep.  A motley crew made up of children, old people, and...

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The King’s Exile

By Matthew M.C. Smith   for Anne   We fly over girded earth trailing the rise of Apollo light thousands of feet high   The...

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Roots

By Marilyn Humbert   west of Alice Springs the Finke River rambles roots of ancient eucalypts Namatjira paints his soul   ghost...

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Robyn Rowland

Robyn Rowland is Irish-Australian who has been living in both Connemara and Australia. She regularly works in Turkey. She has 15 books, 12...

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Eden van Leeuwen

Eden van Leeuwen is an amateur writer for 19 years. Creating wonderful worlds in her words and sharing them with others, she hopes to...

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Lauren O’Connell

Lauren O’Connell is an Irish-Australian emerging writer. She has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from Swinburne...

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Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s My Name is Revenge

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… Vrezh stomped the blood-red flags with enthusiasm … The older boys poured kerosene on the heap...

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Return to Sender

by Samuel Bernard.   The radiating aroma of aging books and mahogany grazed my nostrils as I brushed past mountains of pre-loved...

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RED LIKE BLOOD

By Dr Wendy J. Dunn   Red like blood I plucked a rose Grasped its beauty close to me uncaring of its thorns   Blood red red blood...

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The lost cantatas of Mozart

by Peter Boyle.   The lost cantatas of Mozart are being performed on an island in the wide fork of a river not far from here....

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Lapdogged

by Ian C Smith.   To visit their son, a bearded adult now in what feels to him a fast-forwarding of years, she drives him to the...

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