- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
CONTRIBUTORS
Barrina South
Barrina South is a Barkindji artist, poet and critic. In 2023, her short story Family Tree was adapted for the stage by the Mill Theatre, Canberra and she was commissioned to write an ekphrastic poem for the National Gallery of Australia. Her work has featured in Rabbit, Authora Australia, Cordite Poetry Review, Kuracca anthology, The Rocks Remain: Blak Poetry and Story anthology plus Duniyaadaari and Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, both based in Kolkata, India. Barrina was awarded a 2024 Varuna First Nation fellowship and a judge for the 2024 ACT Book of the Year. Later in the year Barrina will present a paper at the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry in New Zealand on the experience of being part of the Korean program and her debut collection of poetry will be published in September 2024. Barrina’s first piece of writing for 2025 will be an essay in the Griffith Review.
‘In the night air by the smoke’: Amelia Walker in Conversation with Barrina South
I also want to acknowledge Ngunawal and Ngambri people and recognise that I live and write on their unceded sovereign lands.
Oak Trees and Gum Trees
modest conversations with interruptions static broken sentences and silence I ask her to read to me 100 poems by 100 poets she does while tying crystals to my ankles I sink like a ghostly shipwreck settled on the ocean floor …
Weereewaa
respectfully yuma weereewaa filled from the rain lost under the sun restricted flow shallow but with a deep history evidence suspended in the silt pollen and ash worked stone eagles circle, watching lake’s large mouth, calls it’s tongue licks at …
Oak Trees and Gum Trees
modest conversations with interruptions static broken sentences and silence I ask her to read to me 100 poems by 100 poets she does while tying crystals to my ankles I sink like a ghostly shipwreck settled on the ocean floor …
Paper boats
at dusk we launch paper boats with the free-flowing words inscribed in charcoal last of the daylight allows us to watch them set sail into the night we wait for the water to swallow them solace knowing our words would …
