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Matt Hetherington: 4 Haiku
the man checking passports has undone sneakers * eating rice looking at fields of rice * little black bug – how long have you been on your back? * corpse awaits cremation – a …
Mal McKimmie: Three Adaptations
Mal McKimmie is a Melbourne-based poet originally from WA. His poems have appeared in many Australian literary journals over the last 15 years or so; his collection 'Poetileptic' was published by Five Islands Press in August 2005, and launched in both Perth and Melbourne. Poetileptic will be featured on Poetica, on Radio National, in September 2006.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffLisa Jacobson: Heartbeat
Lisa Jacobson is completing a verse novel, The Sunlit Zone, as a PhD at La Trobe University. Her first book of poetry, Hair & Skin & Teeth, was published by Five Islands Press in 1995.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffLes Wicks: DEARLY DEMENTED at the SUNDOWNER NURSING HOME
1. BIRTHDAY DAY Pollock lipstick vagabond slippers, the snug imprisonment of tracksuits smeared with 11:30 soft-diet lunch. Begin to hope the progress behind pharmacological ramparts. The real medicine is touch all other expertise unnecessary. I am now a fixture here …
Les Wicks: Nameless
An almost accidental smear of yellow beside the strident gold of our more important streets, almost like a break in colour lines, the street directory derailed. Between Port Botany and the Gateway to Australia pedestrians are by definition suspicious no …
Kris Hemensley: I walk in this world
Kris Hemensley has been on the Melbourne scene for about 40 years as a performing and publishing poet. He coordinates the “poetry & ideas” bookshop, Collected Works. He's published twenty or so books & booklets since 1967, and has a collection in the works from Salt (UK). He was the 2005 recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffKevin Brophy: Hard Rubbish
The four star fridge is on its side, surprised To find sunlight on its shelves, ice tray dry And its arctic green inside slowly warmed. Hopes once hung with suits in wardrobes are out with posters of the stars we …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffKC Wilder: doling out a corporate yuppie clusterfuck misery
a boss who does not detail any of the 15 jobs she absolutely needs in her hands delivered yesterday a boss who neither listens nor answers when you question most of the time in her own world, a world she …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffKC Wilder: destructions dialed in americanski corporat inc
this new shylock, richard sneasel, corpulent financial weasel. looking cleancut, power tied, robotic american frizzle fried. smacking from today's endemic illusory ambitions materialistic slobs kowtow to bosses, show contrition. truths are nonexistant all distorted, thrown in sink, destructions dialed in …
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffJohn Jenkins: The Wedgetails
Order falconiformes, family accipitidae Trees are wheeling in my dream. Diminish to a dot down here on green, my own face looks back up at me, as smaller ground-hugging birds erupt – warning shrieks from silver crowns – choughs and …
Jeff Crouch: eyelash; eyelash
car starting stopping starting arraign eyelash; eyelash; array assigned collection curb cabaret flooded vibrant eyelash; eyelash;
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffIain Britton: Trafficking
Iain Britton was born and educated in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with long spells living in the UK, returning to a rural lifestyle in a small Maori community on the East Coast of the North Island. His poetry is published internationally in such magazines as Jacket, Slope, Magma, Orbis, The Reader, Harvard Review, The Argotist, Rattapallax, Sentinel Poetry, The Wolf Magazine. He has read several times in London during a winter's visit in 2002/2003 and is now Director of Maori Studies at a large independent boys' school in Auckland.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffIain Britton: At the site of the future I light a fire …
Iain Britton was born and educated in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with long spells living in the UK, returning to a rural lifestyle in a small Maori community on the East Coast of the North Island. His poetry is published internationally in such magazines as Jacket, Slope, Magma, Orbis, The Reader, Harvard Review, The Argotist, Rattapallax, Sentinel Poetry, The Wolf Magazine. He has read several times in London during a winter's visit in 2002/2003 and is now Director of Maori Studies at a large independent boys' school in Auckland.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffGrant Caldwell: the cement of our nation
Grant Caldwell has had seven books published, five of poetry. His work has been published widely in Australia, as well as in Ireland, U.S.A., Canada, India, Italy, Colombia, Japan and Germany. His 1996 collection of poetry, “You Know What I Mean” (Hale & Iremonger) was nominated for the Age Book of the Year Award. His latest book is the poetry collection “Dreaming of Robert De Niro” (Five Islands Press, 2003). He was awarded Australia Council for the Arts Fellowships A and B in 1994 and 1992, respectively, as well as Arts Victoria Awards in 1993 and 1994. He teaches creative writing at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.
Posted in 24.0: COMMON WEALTH Comments OffFiona Wright: Maggie: An Apology
Through all the little stories heard as emulsive-minded children on rickety and wrinkled knees, we soaked them in but never developed, stayed unlit, stayed negative; and Maggie, ghosting darkly on the edge of my inheritance. The vibrating shadowness through hazy …
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