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Jonathan Cant

Jonathan Cant is a Sydney-based writer, poet, and musician. He won the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for Contemporary Poetry, was Longlisted for the 2023 Fish Poetry Prize, and the 2022 Flying Islands Poetry Manuscript Prize, Commended in the W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize, Highly Commended in the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Awards, and twice selected for the Ros Spencer Anthology Brushstrokes. Jonathan’s poems have appeared in Live Encounters, Otoliths, and Booranga Writers' Centre’s fourW thirty-four. His short stories have featured in publications as diverse as Playboy to Australia’s leading flyfishing magazine, FlyLife.

666

1. Hey Nine’s Many Sides, who you calling “arse-up”? Six could claim the same. Besides, they’re the other half of that tantric act and it does take two to tango. 2. Six, you are everywhere. You’re all strings strummed on …

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Bunya

I see you and think Australia, Bunya Pine. You’re less Christmassy than the Norfolk—they get all the gifts, praise and beachfront real estate. Yet you provide timber floors for Queenslander homes and pine soundboards for fine guitars. You stand tall, …

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