Poetry

City dwellers, this provocative poem by Nicole Sellers, with its ironic delivery and thickly packed images, will make you look twice at how you live your life!

Coniston’s explanatory verse enriches the dialogue between the poetic and the scientific.

‘Rites of Passage’ Geoffrey Heptonstall Cyberwit ISBN 978-81-8253-673-9 Geoffrey Heptonstall’s ‘Rites of Passage’ is split into three sections, ‘The Bird of Paradise’, ‘Oceans and Islands’ and ‘More...

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Beth McDonough's work is strongly connected to place, particularly to the Tay, where she swims, and forages nearby.

Australian poet Brett Dionysius coaxes us back in time to the burial of a plant by an Ice Age squirrel, and how that plant may feel to be ‘woken’ from a 32,000-year-old sleep.

Oz Hardwick's chapbook 'Learning to Have Lost' (Canberra: IPSI/Recent Work, 2018) won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for Poetry.

In this set of poem, Marjory Woodfield takes inspiration from travel.

Chaucer Cameron'is co-editor of Poetry Film Live

Poet, Mantz Yorke takes his readers on a tour with these poems inspired by the landscape.

Emerging poet, Nick Browne is struvk by the changes brought about by lockdown.

Anita Patel's collection, 'A Common Garment' (Recent Work Press), was published in 2019. She was the guest editor for Issue 2 of Not Very Quiet Journal.

Poet, Siobhan Logan draws a thread between past and present with a real deftness of touch.

In her poem, 'Take', Jennifer Compton pays homage to the pioneering photographer, Olive Cotton.

Pippa Little's work considers life and mortality in this well crafted hand of poems.

Angela Costi's poetry is rich in both metaphor and meaning. In Jill's poem she recalls the tragic events surrounding the rape and murrder of Irish woman. Gilian Meagher.

There is a questing darkness to this selection of poems by the Sydney based poet.

Penelope Layland's poetry has an urbane flavour that takes us into the world of the poet.

Peter Mitchell's poetry is inspired by the character of the birds of his native Australia.

Rachael Mead's poetry is informed by her relationship with her environment.

Poetry that is rich in metaphor and imagery from the editor of Plumwood Mountain.

Poetry of place from Blue Mountain poet, Justin Lowe.

In this clutch of poems, Eamonn Wall pays homage to the poet Joanne Kyger

Poet Scott Waters' poetry is informed by living though the recent crisis and the images and memories evoked by pandemic.

Poetry of remembrance by Canadian Glen Sorestad, author of over twenty books.

Tim Suermondt is the author of five full-length collections of poems, the latest JOSEPHINE BAKER SWIMMING POOL from MadHat Press, 2019.

Laura Grace Weldon invites us on a series of journeys, both existential and realist with these poems.

Sandra Fees poetry explores the connections of the self with the immediate and distant environment

Kim Ports Parsons' poetry is rich in meaning, informed by living with and in nature at the foot of the Shenandoahs

Poetry rooted in family and community by Marguerite Harrold

Poet, Allan Johnston's work here, reflects on ageing in a changing world.

Translation Po-Int editor, Clara Burghelea on the talent she selected for issue 42

An Astráil editor, Denise O'Hagan on the poets she selected for this issue.

Deborah Purdy's work has appeared in Gravel Literary Magazine, Cleaver Magazine, and other publications.

Amanda McLeod is a Canberra-based writer and artist. Her debut flash fiction, Animal Behaviour (Chaffinch Press, 2020), came out on July 3 2020.

Clara Burghelea became involved with an international cadre of poets and translators to form a community of creatives during a time of lockdown.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro teaches writing at UCLA Extension