supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
by VANESSA PROCTOR A scattering of snow attempts to white out memory. Even the fog is half-hearted this morning. Charred tree trunks and branches create sculptures of loneliness and silence falls heavy on the land. Yet shoots, brilliantly new, are…
by LILLI WARD This social experiment seems like something I want to do or at least something I should want to do. I should want to wade knee deep in muddy puddles, watching dozens of udders face a silky tunic…
by Tony Steven Williams The afternoon sea breeze is superstrong, the surf messy, confused,grumbling like a hung-over mind.On the beach, I see a veteran surferheading towards the café on the dune. His Cairn Terrier stays back, watchingher master with anxious,…
by Kate King The signs were there – in the crackle of the humus and the harshness of the air, the clearing of the forests and the drying of the soil. The bugs beneath the bark scattered. Leaf beetles flickered…
by JEANNIE HAUGHTON Night walk to the cloisters, constellations of dark women, hips swaying to the rhythm of carry bags the evening meal or tomorrow’s lunch no car boots filled with a week’s supplies no click and collect around here…
by DIJANNE CEVAAL Walking along a path through recuperated bushland Small birds sass and chirp, dancing in the shrubby undergrowth Dew drops glitter up high in the native cherry, nature’s tinsel Fungi emerge from the underworld, briefly dazzling in their…
by LAURIE KEIM On the road to nowhere you don’t expect symbols or signs of devotion, do you? And you don’t expect to trip upon things in the long grass denoting the death of others. And you don’t expect the…
Tony Steven Williams is a Canberra poet and short-fiction author who writes across a broad range of genre and format. In all his work, the environment and the human condition are important to him. Tony has two poetry collections (Ginninderra…
Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra, ACT. His haiku appear in various Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry appears in numerous journals, including The Goodlife Review, Rappahannock Review, Penumbra Literary and Art Journal,…
Vanessa Proctor has a special interest in haiku and its related forms. She is a past president of the Australian Haiku Society. Her haiku appear on public art installations in Australia and New Zealand. Her free verse has been published…