CONTRIBUTORS

Beth Spencer

Beth Spencers most recent book, The Age of Fibs was named one of the best books of the year in The Australian. Other books include the verse memoir Vagabondage, and How to Conceive of a Girl which was runner up for the Queensland Premiers (Steele Rudd) Award. My Blue Heart: poems of love, sex and history is forthcoming in March 2027. She writes on Darkinjung land on the NSW Central Coast, at @bethspen on socials, and https://bethspen.substack.com/.

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Manifest: Woodbridge, 1843

(for my Great Great Grandmother Sarah) a bolt of fabric meets a pocket of lace in Van Diemen’s stolen land a drunken husband and children left in Spitalfields The slip of waves ) o c e a n s of …

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How the heart burns

We swallowed anger with the milk puddings. With peas and chops and mint sauce. With silverbeet cooked on the back of the stove until the water evaporates and the edges burn. Put some butter on it, you won’t even taste …

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