CONTRIBUTORS

Gayelene Carbis

Gayelene Carbis lives and works on the unceded land of the Boonwurrung people. Gayelene’s recent poetry book, I Have Decided to Remain Vertical (Puncher & Wattmann) was awarded the Writers’ Choice Award 2025 (Greece). Awards include: Eyelands Poetry Book Award 2024; Highly Commended, NSW Society Women Writers’ Poetry Book Award; Distinguished Favourite, New York City Big Book Award; Finalist - Poetry Book Award (U.K.); and Best Book Award (U.S.). Gayelene’s poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, plays and short films have been widely published and won awards in Australia and overseas. She teaches Creative Writing at Sandybeach and universities and works as a manuscript assessor and writing mentor.

Another Notice to Vacate

Forced to move. Again. Here now in a house I hate. This house is hard. This house is cold. Freezing. To sit on the toilet. To take. A shower. Shower over the bath. Narrow. Deep. Leg over slowly. Don’t fall. …

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2023 Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Award Winners

Without prior consultation, this poem rose to the top of each of our shortlists; it was unquestionably our winner.

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What We’re Not Going To Talk About

I. Mother The tv is too loud for me to talk over the top of after a day of teaching but it is a vexation to my mother’s spirit if I ask her to turn it off. Or even down. …

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What I Saw

I didn’t see the helicopter hovering didn’t see it had stopped didn’t see the police at the end of the pier or the small boat in the sea didn’t see one policewoman stood there for a reason a barrier to …

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