Stephanie Powell is a poet living in Melbourne. Her latest collection, Gentle Creatures, was published by Vagabond Press in 2023. Her poetry has been translated into Braille and published in journals and anthologies. Work by this poet
Margaret Owen Ruckert has won the 2023 National Writing Competition for Poetry, hosted by Women Writers NSW. Two books, You Deserve Dessert and musefood (IP Book of the Year) explore café culture, while others match tanka to landscape photographs. Margaret’s…
Helen Rosemary Wood lives in Melbourne, Victoria on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples. In 2023, she successfully self-published a poetry collection including photos and original artwork entitled ‘Spirit of Place.’ She currently works withstudents…
Mike Greenacre lives in Perth, W.A. He has published poems in Australia, UK & USA. In 2016 he won Equal 1st Prize in the Creatrix Poetry Prize and in 2019, his poem ‘Missing Pieces’ won first Prize in the Tom…
by EARL LIVINGS Ballarat State Forest, 2015 Disturbed by footsteps on the dead leaves and fallen twigs, a path no trail bike has fouled, the dragonfly swoops past me, weaves through bracken, alights on a tall, green, articulated bush that…
by EARL LIVINGS Glen Park State Forest, Mid-Autumn, 2024 No drop of blood on that tip thick enough for a nib, no damage to its glossy vanes, the leading edge stiletto-thin, the trailing edge double-curved, top half a turbine blade,…
by TONY STEVEN WILLIAMS Despite summer’s glare, it’s twilight in here with a faint but not unpleasant woody smell. I sit on the bench, pull up my binoculars, focus across the wetlands at black swans: a family feeding in the…
by TONY STEVEN WILLIAMS On the rammed earth of this dam wall, I rest my backpack, look across the water under gentle summer twilight. Something sad yet glorious about those drowned gum trees. Their silver-grey skeletons stag-horn above the gleam…
by TONY STEVEN WILLIAMS Those high ridges of red gum, hugging the Murrumbidgee near Narrandera, long banished from the rear vision mirror. An occasional stunted tree stands up, untidy as an unplucked feather. Wire fences etch meaningless boundaries across a…
by RODNEY WILLIAMS for K & R & I In a paper bag from a pharmacy he gives a bare biography where Gurney as poet-composer finds no peace in notes dug from trenches counting out measures in an asylum. In…
