CONTRIBUTORS

Amanda Anastasi

Amanda Anastasi is the author of Taking Apart the Bird Trap (Recent Work Press, 2024) and The Inheritors (Black Pepper, 2021). Her poetry has been published in Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Science Writing, Griffith Review and The Massachusetts Review. Amanda was Poet in Residence for three years at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, where she wrote poetry to communicate the climate crisis.

Suburban Deer

Deer Park in Melbourne’s outer west, 1990 Mediterranean columns against brown brick. Kids squabble about whose turn it is to hide in their game. Careful gardens. Pebbled strips. A terracotta-skinned girl carrying colour pencils in a Barbie case, skipping past …

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The First Moments of His Absence:

A radio tuned to static after Mahler. A curtain opened to a suddenly blank scenery. The remaining stalk after the dandelion blow. The thick silence after a confession. A vital wire removed pre-explosion. The hollow letterbox: a cubic sneer. Eighty-eight …

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Interlocutor

So far, my name has been left off the inflection of your question as though it were a ticking meter, inescapable and kept to the last second; your fingers were like shifting clock hands your eyes opaque bottle tops on …

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