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Red Dirt Poetry: 3 poets from the Northern Territory
Red Dirt Poetry Festival is a four-day poetry and spoken word festival in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Ahead of this year’s festival, Cordite has commissioned three NT poets: Emma Trenorden, Mahalia Charlotte and Spandana Pillarisetty.
OZ Lingual: A Refugee’s Dictionary of Home
Mo Sudi is a Somali Australian poet, spoken word performer and calligrapher based in Melbourne. He is a member of the Calligraphy Society of Victoria CSV and Melbourne Poets Union MPU. His work combines poetry, Somali oral storytelling and Arabic calligraphy to explore migration, resilience, identity, community and belonging. Drawing on his childhood in Mogadishu and his experiences as a refugee, Mo transforms displacement into stories of hope, humour and cultural pride.
Like God
Benedicte O’Leary Rutherford (she/they) is a comics maker and artist based in Naarm, Australia. They make autobio comics and obsessively draw self-portraits in a never-ending attempt to express how they think and who they are. Their work has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Crucial Comix, Baby Teeth and About Time. They are currently undertaking a PhD in comics making at RMIT University.
The most powerful man in the world
Rachel Ang is an artist and writer. Their comics and prose have been published in the New Yorker, Overland, Island, The Age, Kill Your Darlings and Meanjin. Their latest book, a collection of short stories in comics form titled I Ate The Whole World to Find You, is out now through Scribe, and was shortlisted for an Ignatz Award.
Hard and Bloody Wonders
Aries M. Gacutan is a Filipino poet, editor, and digital writer living and working on stolen Wurundjeri land. They have a passing interest in the end of the world.
Tell Me Like You Mean It 8
When commissioning for this edition of Tell Me Like You Mean It, I gave one prompt to contributors: “Go bonkers! (If you want! So fine if not!)”
On The Wind
K.A Ren Wyld lives on the coast, south of Adelaide. Ren has published numerous books, short stories, narrative nonfiction, poetry, reviews, essays, and more.
Presents
Elese Dowden is a Pākehā writer, poet, and recovering philosopher from Aotearoa New Zealand working on unceded Wurundjeri country in Naarm. Her poetry and literary reviews have been published in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, and Landfall, and her cross-disciplinary research interests include critical theory, philosophy, literature, and colonialism in Australasia.
The Dogs Bark
One Like losing, like losing, like losing: the spit, the bear’s eye, the brass bells, their rhythm, their time, only thing, on beat. Like how I found out, then folded. Tiny plastic stick. Everything is jaundiced, sticky creases. I’m up right. Nothing is coming out, I don’t want …
DIVINE INTERVENTIONS
During breeding season, Melbourne is home to up to 10,000 seraphim, the highest form of angel. However, these sacred creatures can be a hazard to aircraft. Angel strike in one of these engines can cause severe damage to the fan blades & cause the engine to fail. Engine manufacturers test the safety of these engines by firing a high-speed frozen chicken at them while the engine is operating at full thrust.
The Hunt for the Thylacine
The tracks were first noticed by Miss B. Seaton, and their identity was confirmed by Mr. L. D. Crawford, who is the scientific assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston.
So-called Australian Made: In Response to Lycette and Fox
Thomas Lycette, View of Tasman’s Peak, from Macquarie Plains, Van Dieman’s Land, c 1823, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (AGSA, 2024). A quaint little dalliance on the Merry old Tasman Peak Every painting is set in England, isn’t it? …
Sanskari Girl: 5 poems by Lia Dewey Morgan
blue stone onam And so it was, Sunday afternoon stoned walking aimless, blue sky and yellow sun falling over a Presbyterian church I’d never seen before. A couple with a pram dressed King of Trainers, conservative like bald men shouting …
Tell Me Like You Mean It 7
Image by Angélique Moseley When briefing commissioned poets on what I imagined this volume of Tell Me Like You Mean It to embody, I eagerly told them to simply ‘tell me like you mean it’. I didn’t care if it …
Adversarial Practice: 6 New Poems by Angela Costi
The Print is Fine and Dandy Upon settlement of what is unduly authorised by Crown and sundry to be the property of said immigrant on said day at said time you are subject to said fees and charges to be …
Invisible Walls: Poetry as a Doorway to Intercultural Understanding
The selection of poems we offer here is written by poets participating in a two-year intercultural exchange program between Korean and Australian poets.
Choosing Sides: 7 New Poems by Adam Ford
Dog Day Afternoon! Rom Spaceknight #6 (May 1980) He sits quietly, his hand still warm from electricity drawn out of the single naked bulb that gently swings from the pasteboard ceiling of the small-town garage. The hidden photovoltaic process continues, …
5 New Poems by Mindy Gill
In the Oberoi, Two Days Before My Flight after Frank O’Hara We made all the right decisions. It’s what we told one another. A high-walled garden and uninterrupted air. The mahogany desk you claimed in an instant pens, new pages, …
Tell Me Like You Mean It 6
Once, I was sitting in my therapist’s office, and she asked me the question ‘Why do you write poetry?’ It’s a very good question; one with many answers, half of which I couldn’t articulate here. I responded to her with something like, ‘It helps me to understand my internal environment.’
deScription: Improvisations on the Mid-career Drawings and Paintings of Nola Farman
I. The Limits of Imagination The Limits of Imagination, 1971, 15 x 21cms, ink on paper I hear old Poseidon walks on the water like his feet are backwards fish. I’ve always had this affinity, he boasts in the trumpet …
