Fred Duncan has worked as a botanist in many parts of Australia – since 1977 in Tasmania. He has strong interests in Gondwanic connections of landscapes and flora, and with his wife Mercedes (from Argentina) has travelled regularly to South…
Carl Walsh is a neurodiverse poet who lives and writes in Northcote on Wurundjeri Country. Carl’s poetry has appeared in StylusLit, Westerly, Rabbit, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Wales Haiku Journal and Meanjin (amongst others). His first book of poetry, Tarp Green…
by Fred Duncan Drill holes in the spinifex break through the Pilbara crust, Red land/hills, red rocks, red sunset – and red a rusted sign: “NO ENTRY: Rio Tinto” – the irony is thrust On people whose existence must align…
by Les Wicks The tide isn’t waiting now, it never has. Sometimes that house down by the dock had hated certainties… children appeared then left for jobs in a city which made nothing except money. For the aged man resident…
by Carl Walsh mountains hold names to themselves landscape borrowed transplanted in gardens that twist like lonely water pruned into shape hawk-eyed tombi adjusts air river flows backward caught between forces timbers cut path to near enlightenment feet long to…
by Kellie Asmussen A different scent visited me before. This one, I learnt in Nam over two weeks of shared meals and numerous Tiger Beers. Still, I stopped and searched knowing you were near. I felt it again within a…
by Carl Walsh i. glamour of mid-morning sun fibro shacks lean into hawkesbury sailboats ride anchor half-sunk from last night’s rain mud blooms into water buoys mark out shallows girls keep their vessels close ii. train in waiting wondabyne bolts…
Peter Roberts is an Australian poet who enjoys poetry that bounces and surprises, and that most of all is accessible. Peter has been published in a range of national and international journals, including Quadrant, The Beatnik Cowboy, W-Poesis & Catchment.…
Alex Robertson grew up in Adelaide, has been completing creative writing since a teenager, but is beginning to take this writing gig seriously. Alex is involved in writing groups, is a free verse poetry diehard and has travelled a great…
Jan Napier is a Western Australian writer. Her poem ‘Early: A Morning’ won the 2023 KSP Poetry Prize. Jan lives with a cat and tries to grow poems green and graceful as her ferns.
