24.0: COMMON WEALTH
Victoria Ramsay: Santiago Circus
In a sand casino we devour the sun standing like two dimensional cut outs spinning roulette under a three hundred degree rainbow. I leave friends orbiting the night. Neon lights with cues push me into traffic's deafening rune where subways …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffVictoria Ramsay: London Town
Hooded boys frisk the sidewalk, somersault gutters or stand around swinging bats. The paper seller at Angel listens to “Do the Locomotion”. Tourists hog footpaths, stray across Queensway. They feel safe in less hurried postcodes. Windows here won't open. Praed …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffVernyce Dannells: Dessert
Vernyce Dannells lives and writes on Maui. Her work has appeared in numerous international literary magazines. Cadenza Press published a chapbook, Temporarily Abated, in spring 2006.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffUzeyir Lakman CAYCI: I was in these pages
Without making you feel at all In lands very distant from you I raised flowers which you like I know I left you by yourself With unforgettable memories… Every so often You felt uneasy Because of my badly digested words …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffTodd Swift: Commonwealth
Not that I lied, or wasn't myself – I don't know myself enough to tell – but tried to do things with words, alter events – like the hero at the plane crash who drags the pilot from the agitated …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffTerry Collett: It Is All Waiting For The Still Repose
It is all waiting for the still repose, The nightly kiss on a bended knee, Half wit to half woo The girl and the angry fool, Brow beaten by a swollen moon, And the crafty sun blazing Like a blushing …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffSimon West: Seed Eyes 1
Simon West is a poet and teacher in Italian Studies. He lives in Melbourne. His first collection, First Names, will be published by Puncher and Wattmann in September.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffShannan Rodda: LITTLE responsibilities
Shannan Rodda lives on the Mornington Peninsula. She is currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at Tafe and is currently working on her first novel.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffSebastian Gurciullo: try color
Sebastian Gurciullo has been co-editor of and contributor to textbase since its inception in 1998. His most recent publications include Marginal Text through textbase publications (2004) and concrete pieces in Unusual Work No.2 (2005). He works as a curator of online exhibitions at Public Record Office Victoria, where he is also editor of Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria.
Sebastian Gurciullo: drain on the public purse
Sebastian Gurciullo has been co-editor of and contributor to textbase since its inception in 1998. His most recent publications include Marginal Text through textbase publications (2004) and concrete pieces in Unusual Work No.2 (2005). He works as a curator of online exhibitions at Public Record Office Victoria, where he is also editor of Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria.
Rebekah Moon: lament
Rebekah Moon is a 27 year old Arts graduate, now studying education. She lives with her husband and two cats on the edges of suburbia and a National Park.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffPaul Mitchell: Until
Paul Mitchell is a Melbourne poet. He has published one collection, Minorphysics (IP 2003), and has another due out in April 2007 through Five Islands Press. Visit his website.
Papa Osmubal: At the Macao 2006 Tulip Show
Papa Osmubal writes from Macao, South China. He is currently completing his MA in English Studies at the University of Macau. His works, both visual and literary, have found home in various places, hardcopy and online, more recently in Pemmican Press, Chick Flicks, Literary Chaos (Lit K-Os), Admit 2, foam:e, The Drunken Boat, Spillway Review, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry Irregular, Burning Leaf, The Green Silk Journal, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) and Rattle.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffNicola Scholes: Green Eggs and SPAM
I do not like green eggs and SPAM, I will delete them, Sam-I-Am. Have a BIT, take a BYTE, Try it, buy it, then you might! You're sure to lose / you're sure to gain, Human blues / cockroach pain, …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffMichael Farrell: greenwood values
my feet are birds on whats left of the trees the dream reconciles me living here without goodbye & so you know that somethings wrong an atmosphere a general abnormality where needs of affection transgress boundaries & ghosts arent laid …
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