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Earlier this year I trumpeted young ex-pat poet Emma Jones' first collection, The Striped World, and so not only am I happy to announce ...

I received a welcome gift in my inbox recently from the Chicago poet, John Hospodka. Titled "South Side Trilogy", it is a fascinat...

Dorothy Porter was never going to go out with a whimper. The Australian poet who once claimed to write best to the tribal din of Melbour...

I am beholden to my daemons to presage this article by stating for the record that I am usually wrong. Considering the state of law...

BONDI LINE Come join in an exploration of Bondi Beach with 3 of Australia’s leading poets joanne burns  Brook Emery Les Wic...

Received my copy of Issue One of the new Perth literary quarterly, dotdotdash , today and I felt a charge of energy waft out as I opened t...

Reading Anna Goldsworthy's article about the Australian National Academy of Music got me thinking about a great many things, but mostly ...

Black Swans and Stars After all these years, there is still a sort of defeat in winning. I had to go into exile, I kept bumping ...

Once again I am fresh out of rants, doubtless to the relief of many of those whose air of entitlement is only outdone by their...

If you are looking for the submissions link, rather than trawl through this pre-industrial plaint, just click on the post heading. But for...

For Sale on Swanston Street Indian diamonds a rock of hammer men in orange and their swarthy God but I'm not in the m...

For reasons known only to themselves, the editors of Melbourne's Cordite Magazine decided to open a comment stream left happily dorman...

The Chant I drift through time rings of coffee on grey the sleepless can be so sinister lips purple with cold and hats pulled low to hide ey...

before Italy hair penned in as an afterthought, a woolly plate and everything a second edge yellow a dream only – caricature ev...

ANNELIDS (in September rain, for several days a thousand earthworms, clean and pink as intestines rise out of the flooded ground swimming in...

Y ou should never lend your tools to Pistoa. They will be returned broken like the smiles of the unsuspecting, and not because he is a...