CONTRIBUTORS

Pip Smith

Pip Smith’s first collection of poetry, Too Close for Comfort, won the inaugural Helen Ann Bell award in 2013. She has since published the novel Half Wild (A&U, 2017), for which she was named a Best Young Novelist of 2018 by the SMH/ The Age, the children’s picture books Theodore the Unsure (Scholastic Press, 2019), and To Greenland! (Scholastic Press, 2022) and the young adult novel The Pull of the Moon (UWAP, 2025), which was named a notable book by the CBCA.

http://www.pipsmith.net/

magnolia

when winter arrives a shiver of wind strips you bare your buds tight fists hold fast against the change i wait watching through the window i wait masticating toast my tongue a slow rotor my mind calm as a cow’s …

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7 month sleep regression

a tiredness like a concrete boulder grinding the optic nerve. the ayes have it. the green eyes of potatoes glowing in the dark. outside the window: leaves move like fingers of the dead. waving, drowning, possums rumble in the undergrowth. …

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On the 36th Floor

we are on par with thunder. The clouds are switched to reverse, hoovering steam from the craniums of CEOs. They’re holding shit together just beneath the spires of sky-scrapers, channelling gold-fever, sucking lifts up shafts with every morning coffee- run. …

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