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Madeleine Dale

Madeleine Dale is a poet and researcher from Brisbane/Meanjin. Her work has been published in Westerly, Cordite, Meanjin and Australian Poetry Anthology, among others. Her first full-length collection, Portraits of Drowning, won the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Prize. She was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.

On Page 56, You are Eaten by the Yeti

1 You are twelve years old. You are in the process of being eaten by the yeti. Sit on the stairs, head in your hands, and be eaten. Cry in the shower on page 98, the yeti getting its fur …

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Be Not Afraid, or Whatever

God’s worst angel, smoking behind the servo again. Could drop a lit redhead into a gas puddle and watch the whole afternoon open up like a white flower. Kaboom. Everyone gets to go home early. It’s 2008; he’s on the …

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FrogID

excuse me, i’m no good with language—it’s not what i was trained on, the way you were nursed, perfect milk-mouth full of fricatives. in the space that would be the space in the cavern of a skull, i keep four …

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Household Accounting

isn’t like departmental budgeting at all. No amount of funding pie-chart will turn the lights back on if you don’t have the five-digit password to the email account where the bills are. There is very little put aside for guns. …

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