- 114: NO THEME 13with J Toledo & C Tse 113: INVISIBLE WALLSwith A Walker & D Disney 112: TREATwith T Dearborn 111: BABYwith S Deo & L Ferney 110: POP!with Z Frost & B Jessen 109: NO THEME 12with C Maling & N Rhook 108: DEDICATIONwith L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik 107: LIMINALwith B Li 106: OPENwith C Lowe & J Langdon 105: NO THEME 11with E Grills & E Stewart 104: KINwith E Shiosaki 103: AMBLEwith E Gomez and S Gory 102: GAMEwith R Green and J Maxwell 101: NO THEME 10with J Kinsella and J Leanne 100: BROWNFACE with W S Dunn 99: SINGAPOREwith J Ip and A Pang 97 & 98: PROPAGANDAwith M Breeze and S Groth 96: NO THEME IXwith M Gill and J Thayil 95: EARTHwith M Takolander 94: BAYTwith Z Hashem Beck 93: PEACHwith L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong 92: NO THEME VIIIwith C Gaskin 91: MONSTERwith N Curnow 90: AFRICAN DIASPORAwith S Umar 89: DOMESTICwith N Harkin 88: TRANSQUEERwith S Barnes and Q Eades 87: DIFFICULTwith O Schwartz & H Isemonger 86: NO THEME VIIwith L Gorton 85: PHILIPPINESwith Mookie L and S Lua 84: SUBURBIAwith L Brown and N O'Reilly 83: MATHEMATICSwith F Hile 82: LANDwith J Stuart and J Gibian 81: NEW CARIBBEANwith V Lucien 80: NO THEME VIwith J Beveridge 57.1: EKPHRASTICwith C Atherton and P Hetherington 57: CONFESSIONwith K Glastonbury 56: EXPLODE with D Disney 55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUSwith M Chakraborty and K MacCarter 55: FUTURE MACHINES with Bella Li 54: NO THEME V with F Wright and O Sakr 53.0: THE END with P Brown 52.0: TOIL with C Jenkins 51.1: UMAMI with L Davies and Lifted Brow 51.0: TRANSTASMAN with B Cassidy 50.0: NO THEME IV with J Tranter 49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH with M Hall and S Seita 49.0: OBSOLETE with T Ryan 48.1: CANADA with K MacCarter and S Rhodes 48.0: CONSTRAINT with C Wakeling 47.0: COLLABORATION with L Armand and H Lambert 46.1: MELBOURNE with M Farrell 46.0: NO THEME III with F Plunkett 45.0: SILENCE with J Owen 44.0: GONDWANALAND with D Motion 43.1: PUMPKIN with K MacCarter 43.0: MASQUE with A Vickery 42.0: NO THEME II with G Ryan 41.1: RATBAGGERY with D Hose 41.0: TRANSPACIFIC with J Rowe and M Nardone 40.1: INDONESIA with K MacCarter 40.0: INTERLOCUTOR with L Hart 39.1: GIBBERBIRD with S Gory 39.0: JACKPOT! with S Wagan Watson 38.0: SYDNEY with A Lorange 37.1: NEBRASKA with S Whalen 37.0: NO THEME! with A Wearne 36.0: ELECTRONICA with J Jones
Vanessa Page
Moths
I am a long acceptance of things rusted on a passive agent of decay: a sick flow, blooming/spreading down weathered stair treads, the rotten stench of paperbark trees rising, a window-slung bed sheet, trapping heat. I am complicit. I give …
Posted in 101: NO THEME 10
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Thursday night, 1979
My goldfish died the night Dad pushed the fridge over. The machine lay on its side, exposing lines of dusty metal coils that were somehow terrifying, – all those parts, not meant to be seen. It was the surprise of …
Posted in 91: MONSTER
Tagged Vanessa Page
Aylan
the sea offers up your name…the sea offers up your name the sea offers up your name…the sea offers up your name offers up your name, offers up your name, offers up your name… your name, your name, your name, …
Posted in 77: EXPLODE
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The Instinct of Sharks
Go back to the start, before the loneliness of this two a.m. mating season carried you home: watch the bruise on your thigh shrink and disappear from your skin starve the sideshow alley clowns, take back the deal with the …
Posted in 74: NO THEME V
Tagged Vanessa Page
Inheritance
i There’s a complex certainty in coming home. It keeps on, something like faith – shakes the red dirt shoulders of the Maranoa and prickles up a spine of Ooline trees to the west. I have not travelled nine hours …
Posted in 72: THE END
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Papier-mâché
This spit-polished veneer has street appeal and is open for inspection. In these shutter-speed days her family portraits bear the least resemblance to anything real, paintbox-bright statements, all flourishes and filters – tumbling and spreading from the news feed’s mouth. …
Posted in 66: OBSOLETE
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Review Short: Vanessa Page’s Confessional Box
Australian poet Vanessa Page’s latest collection, Confessional Box, is equal parts personal and critical, examining emotional relationships with a terse, engaging style. As the title suggests, there is a strongly self-aware element to Confessional Box. The poems are relatively open, encompassing a range of points of view and personas, but these are not wholly simple reflections of human relationships. Rather, Page presents a series of evolving sections, embellishing on memories and balancing broader criticisms against more personally orientated notions of access and invitation.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Siobhan Hodge, Vanessa Page
The Torpey Spoon
for Evelyn, Elizabeth and Janet Home is the colour of sunlight through the kitchen window, a lemon-curd glow as day infuses thin air. I’m inside with my young daughter, crafting a version of love from cooling figs and a row …
Posted in 60: SILENCE
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GIBBERBIRD Editorial
This issue is a poetic conversation between a source poem and ten poems found from within its lines. It’s a refraction of language and image through poetic prisms, an intersection of the familiar and unfamiliar, blurring the edges through the 11 authors’ interpretations.
Cartography
Territory is suburbia is an atlas of orange-bricked battlelines. Where driveway mouths spit mortar like broken teeth and cold wars cauterise domestic skin. This is where I have mapped you. mango pulp bruise-lidded sky a storm hymnal When the sky …
Posted in 51: GIBBERBIRD
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