CONTRIBUTORS

Jo Lyons

Jo Lyons is a poet, writer, artist and editor. She has worked as an editor for leading Australian publishers and institutions, including Allen & Unwin, the Powerhouse Museum and Sydney University Press. Her poetry was shortlisted for the 2023 Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award and has previously been featured in Cordite Poetry Review, as well as Live Encounters Poetry & Writing and the Hunter Writers Centre Grieve anthology. Her poetry and art are on display in the group exhibition Landscape Tells the Way: Illawarra at Wollongong Art Gallery.

Easter Date

I stand above you lying stretched across the bed on your stomach, your face turned away from me. I click off shots with my phone, your dark curls a curtain flowing over brown shoulders, hiding your looks. The light bounces …

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Please do not join do not join this train

YESTERDAY WHEN I didn’t kiss the IT guy, the whole world fell apart. A staticky electricity now fills the air as I wait on a letter that might not ever arrive. It’s been teeming down all week, windy as hell, …

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