Definition of Man

I am terror, peril, and spectre, all at once.

ISSUE 09, LiteratureJoan de la KagsawaSeptember 17, 2023man, identity, queer, literature, art, opinion, coming of age

tape-eater

what it is to become a dream.

Literature, ISSUE 09Leon KaragicSeptember 11, 2023creative writing, poetry, clare, philosophy, dreams, prose, leon, karagic, leon karagic

The First Supper

The mountains will bare themselves and our hands will receive.

Literature, ISSUE 09Clare GimSeptember 11, 2023creative writing, korean, poetry, food, family, clare gim, clare, gim

About a basin

As hard as I try to remember, from no part of my being can I summon a reason for me being here.

LiteratureJuliette JarrettJune 26, 2023creative writing

They’re taking my brain upstate, and I don’t know when I’ll get it back

Generally speaking, I came out pretty well! Well, except my brain fell out of my head.

LiteratureJames WilyJune 7, 2023brain, fiction, concussion, funny

How many names are there for God?

Ohm // ohm // ohm

LiteratureAva BroinowskiJune 7, 2023religion, God, poetry collection

Great Western Highway

I am just another pothole, // Feeling the weight of // That other invisible world // As it passes over me

LiteratureJoan de la KagsawaJune 7, 2023poetry, place, highway

Landscaping:

To glean your teeming brain // It needs harvest // Or will rot

LiteratureZara HussainJune 4, 2023poetry

Finding new moves

I am fascinated by a specific benefit AIs have for literature which, unlike in chess, is not harnessed enough.

LiteratureAngus McGregorJune 4, 2023chess, AI, artificial intelligence, Literature

Modern courtship

It’s 5.30am. You and the rest of the inter-B’s netball team are huddled on a coach in the dark.

Sports, LiteratureBella WellsteadMay 10, 2023sports, netball, nostalgia, memories, haiku

Bài tập về bản thể luận / An Assignment on Ontology

What would the hill be but a dried steppe // On the falling back of an afternoon

LiteratureMong NguyenApril 19, 2023poetry, vietnam

Cynicism is a whale fall

I often dream of Lutīyā the cosmic whale.

LiteratureNathan PhillisApril 19, 2023poetry, whale fall, environment, ocean, Lovecraft, societal collapse

The water of life

My beloved has gifted us this water of life / This ocean which has the power to create or destroy / Yet in it we blindly place our trust

LiteratureElla AvniFebruary 23, 2023poetry, poetry collection, father, mother

Chambers

I find it in a soggy little cavity underneath footbridge.

LiteratureSonal KambleFebruary 23, 2023creepy, horror, heart

A diptych of art and empathy — In conversation with Erin Shiel

"I realised that in order to find time to think and a view of what felt like the whole world, I had to be uncomfortable."

LiteratureAriana HaghighiFebruary 23, 2023Sydney, poetry, poetry collection, interview, women writers, art, girlhood, identity, maturation

Review: Tripping Over Myself — A window into the world of Australian comedy

Micallef narrates his memoir like he’s playing a character on his comedy show.

LiteratureFaye TangOctober 9, 2022memoir, Australian literature, comedian, book review, shaun micallef

Gilgamesh and the Invisible Hand

Sometimes we cling to theories of global orders and forget these theories don’t always lead where they should.

Review: The Liars – A complex thriller invaluable to the end

Despite its fantastical elements, it is embedded in social issues of our time.

LiteratureSylvia YeOctober 4, 2022book review, Australian literature, crime

evergreen

making night envious of our glamour and design

LiteratureAmy TanOctober 4, 2022nightlife, female gaze

“Where’s my legacy gone?”: The chronic misrepresentation of poet Gwen Harwood

In the eyes of the media she was housewife first, poet never.

LiteratureAriana HaghighiOctober 4, 2022Australian literature, poetry