CONTRIBUTORS

Sean West

Sean West is an autistic poet, support worker, and workshop facilitator based in Meanjin. Their debut chapbook is Gutless Wonder (Queensland Poetry, 2023). In 2023, Sean was runner-up in the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. They are the digital festival program coordinator for Red Dirt Poetry Festival 2024 and the founding editor of Blue Bottle Journal.

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The Escape Artist

for Bear | inspired by Bronwyn Lovell What goes through your ticking toy-machine mind as you burrow beneath our shitty rental fence the landlords will never fix? What are you trying to achieve with this? I zip-tie chicken wire, plonk …

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This is my swamp

A deflated astronaut’s lung hangs pegged to a Hill’s Hoist in every other Brisbane backyard, sapped dry of the Fruity Lexia that makes you sexier. This is my swamp jokes the Brisbanite too loudly to his confused, clammy neighbour as …

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