- 114: NO THEME 13with J Toledo & C Tse 113: INVISIBLE WALLSwith A Walker & D Disney 112: TREATwith T Dearborn 111: BABYwith S Deo & L Ferney 110: POP!with Z Frost & B Jessen 109: NO THEME 12with C Maling & N Rhook 108: DEDICATIONwith L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik 107: LIMINALwith B Li 106: OPENwith C Lowe & J Langdon 105: NO THEME 11with E Grills & E Stewart 104: KINwith E Shiosaki 103: AMBLEwith E Gomez and S Gory 102: GAMEwith R Green and J Maxwell 101: NO THEME 10with J Kinsella and J Leanne 100: BROWNFACE with W S Dunn 99: SINGAPOREwith J Ip and A Pang 97 & 98: PROPAGANDAwith M Breeze and S Groth 96: NO THEME IXwith M Gill and J Thayil 95: EARTHwith M Takolander 94: BAYTwith Z Hashem Beck 93: PEACHwith L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong 92: NO THEME VIIIwith C Gaskin 91: MONSTERwith N Curnow 90: AFRICAN DIASPORAwith S Umar 89: DOMESTICwith N Harkin 88: TRANSQUEERwith S Barnes and Q Eades 87: DIFFICULTwith O Schwartz & H Isemonger 86: NO THEME VIIwith L Gorton 85: PHILIPPINESwith Mookie L and S Lua 84: SUBURBIAwith L Brown and N O'Reilly 83: MATHEMATICSwith F Hile 82: LANDwith J Stuart and J Gibian 81: NEW CARIBBEANwith V Lucien 80: NO THEME VIwith J Beveridge 57.1: EKPHRASTICwith C Atherton and P Hetherington 57: CONFESSIONwith K Glastonbury 56: EXPLODE with D Disney 55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUSwith 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 …
