An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
ONE POEM BY NICOLE SELLERS
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!
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
William Coniston – Three poems
Coniston’s explanatory verse enriches the dialogue between the poetic and the scientific.
Poetry
Emma Lee Reviews, Geoffrey Heptonstall’s ‘Rites of Passage’
‘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...
Poetry
5 poems by Jude Brigley
First Published July 29th 2018 SPILT SUGAR
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Why do your children remember that one timewhen you lost your rag over spilt sugar?
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And it was only a...
Poetry
Featured Poet Brian Kirk
First Published 29th July 2018 Light After DarkThe morning, after dark, gives way to light,the house silent but for the hummingfridge and creaking walls. Listen...
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
5 poems by Beth McDonough
Beth McDonough's work is strongly connected to place, particularly to the Tay, where she swims, and forages nearby.
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
A Poem By Brett Dionysius
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 poems by Oz Hardwick
Oz Hardwick's chapbook 'Learning to Have Lost' (Canberra: IPSI/Recent Work, 2018) won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for Poetry.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Marjory Woodfield
In this set of poem, Marjory Woodfield takes inspiration from travel.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
From the poet, Mantz Yorke
Poet, Mantz Yorke takes his readers on a tour with these poems inspired by the landscape.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Novelist and emerging poet, Nick Browne
Emerging poet, Nick Browne is struvk by the changes brought about by lockdown.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Anita Patel
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.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Siobhan Logan
Poet, Siobhan Logan draws a thread between past and present with a real deftness of touch.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Jennifer Compton
In her poem, 'Take', Jennifer Compton pays homage to the pioneering photographer, Olive Cotton.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Scottish poet, Pippa Little
Pippa Little's work considers life and mortality in this well crafted hand of poems.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Angela Costi
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.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poet, Philip Radmall
There is a questing darkness to this selection of poems by the Sydney based poet.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Penelope Layland
Penelope Layland's poetry has an urbane flavour that takes us into the world of the poet.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Peter Mitchell
Peter Mitchell's poetry is inspired by the character of the birds of his native Australia.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Rachael Mead, Poet.
Rachael Mead's poetry is informed by her relationship with her environment.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Anne Elvey
Poetry that is rich in metaphor and imagery from the editor of Plumwood Mountain.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Eamonn Wall
In this clutch of poems, Eamonn Wall pays homage to the poet Joanne Kyger
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Scott Waters
Poet Scott Waters' poetry is informed by living though the recent crisis and the images and memories evoked by pandemic.
Poetry by Glen Sorestad
Poetry of remembrance by Canadian Glen Sorestad, author of over twenty books.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Tim Suermondt
Tim Suermondt is the author of five full-length collections of poems, the latest JOSEPHINE BAKER SWIMMING POOL from MadHat Press, 2019.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Laura Grace Weldon
Laura Grace Weldon invites us on a series of journeys, both existential and realist with these poems.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Sandra Fees
Sandra Fees poetry explores the connections of the self with the immediate and distant environment
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Kim Ports Parsons
Kim Ports Parsons' poetry is rich in meaning, informed by living with and in nature at the foot of the Shenandoahs
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poet Marguerite Harrold
Poetry rooted in family and community by Marguerite Harrold
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Poetry by Allan Johnston
Poet, Allan Johnston's work here, reflects on ageing in a changing world.
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
Translation Po-Int editor, Clara Burghelea.
Translation Po-Int editor, Clara Burghelea on the talent she selected for issue 42
Issue 42 | July 2020 |
An Astráil editor, Denise O’Hagan
An Astráil editor, Denise O'Hagan on the poets she selected for this issue.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 poems by Deborah Purdy
Deborah Purdy's work has appeared in Gravel Literary Magazine, Cleaver Magazine, and other publications.
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
2 poems by Amanda McLeod
Amanda McLeod is a Canberra-based writer and artist. Her debut flash fiction, Animal Behaviour (Chaffinch Press, 2020), came out on July 3 2020.
Poetry
maintaining social distance through the language of longitudes – An International, Multilingual Collaboration.
Clara Burghelea became involved with an international cadre of poets and translators to form a community of creatives during a time of lockdown.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 poems by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro teaches writing at UCLA Extension
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Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Alwyn Marriage
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