Helen Hagemann



Fairy Penguins

at the corner of the coast we leave behind a crossroad of island & mainland walk the jetty with tea & sandwiches settling on a narrow shore a stray sentence begins & ends in the margins of rock & sand, …

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Warning to the Gambler

The way in is through thick double doors, between foyered palms, past elderly stewards kneading hands. Fifty-dollar notes are exchanged for happy-go-lucky seats, silver-dint-bar-tinkling machines. They lay down their cards, sit hunched into their rib cage; sink into a consciousness …

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Sam Byfield Reviews the APC New Poets Series

I read the four New Poets chapbooks with a high level of curiosity and expectation. Published by the Australian Poetry Centre, these collections represent the rebirth of the Five Islands Press New Poets Series, which published the first chapbooks of approximately 75 Australian poets until its cessation in 2007.

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