Contents

John Tranter 

Introduction

 

Mark Young 

A line from Weldon Kees

 

Warrick Wynne 

Hands

 

Fiona Wright

Obit

 

Robin Wilkinson

Melbourne colour 1

 

Jessica L. Wilkinson

Table Manners

 

Petra White

The Ecstasy

 

Jen Webb

From: Four Cities: 3. On George Street

 

Alan Wearne

Anger Management: A South Coast Fable

 

Meredith Wattison

Dürer

 

John Watson

A Year before the Accident

 

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

You, Wallace Stevens

 

Rob Walker

crying at the poetry reading

 

Ann Vickery

Clayton’s Law of Amor Fati

 

Mark Tredinnick

Dog Sonnet

 

Tim Thorne

Importing Merwin

 

Maria Takolander

Night feed

 

Pete Spence

Takeaway.

 

Vivian Smith

My Island

 

Barnaby Smith

An Eisenhower of the Mind

 

Shu Ting

Good Friends

 

Shu Cai

Absurdity

 

Michael Sharkey

Ancestors in Nineteenth-Century Albums

 

Michael Sharkey

Where the Bunyip Builds Its Nest (five centos)

 

Jaya Savige

Ötzi

 

Andrew Sant

Camouflage

 

Philip Salom

Autism and

 

Gig Ryan

Albatross Diagram

 

Belinda Rule

The Note from God

 

Josephine Rowe

Atlantic City

 

Peter Rose

Magical Thinking

 

Mark Roberts

cameraman

 

Sarah Rice

Bodies

 

Craig Powell

Wedding Night

 

Claire Potter

Room of Clouds

 

Felicity Plunkett

Confetti by Dada

 

Greg Piko

The Man I’d Like To Be

 

A.D. Phatak

Venus’s Flower Basket

 

John Pfitzner

Pointless

 

Christine Paice

I See Him

 

Geoff Page

Meadow

 

Jan Owen

Kohlrabi Soup

 

David Musgrave

Hospital

 

Les Murray

Child Logic

 

Peter Murphy

Gardening

 

David Mortimer

Cloud Philosophy

 

Meg Mooney

My Town

 

Peter Minter

In the Serious Light of Nothing

 

John Miles

The lunch that we should have had

 

Kate Middleton

Postcard: Lake Havasu City, Arizona

 

Bronwyn Mehan

Horse Girls

 

Emily Manger

I can only sing in photos

 

Bronwen Manger

Moat

 

Caitlin Maling

To Robert Thompson

 

Jennifer Maiden

George Jeffreys: 11: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Langley

 

Rhyll McMaster

Night Ride

 

David McCooey

Letter to Ken Bolton

 

Anthony Lynch

Light

 

Cameron Lowe

Turkey in the Drawer

 

Jennifer Liston

Sampling Lily

 

Bella Li

Just then

 

Emma Lew

Lesson

 

Geoffrey Lehmann

Thirteen Reviews of the New Babylon Inn

 

Roland Leach

My Great Aunt

 

Anthony Lawrence

Visiting Hour

 

Mike Ladd

Mercurial

 

Karen Knight

A Factory Love Affair

 

Andy Kissane

The Writer Talks to Her Aspiring Fans

 

John Kinsella

Wild Ducks, Cambridge

 

Richard King

Three Apples

 

Frank Kellaway

Anxiety Neurosis

 

S.K. Kelen

Bird Diary

 

Jill Jones

Negative Breathing

 

Tiggy Johnson

Photograph

 

John Jenkins

The Man Who Lost Himself

 

Andy Jackson

A Certain Type of Poem

 

Darby Hudson

Culture

 

Duncan Hose

The Paul Revere Girls

 

Gregory Horne

The Family Doctor

 

Sarah Holland-Batt

The Quattrocento as a Waltz

 

Jack Hibberd

Ode to Joy

 

Matt Hetherington

Sometimes I Wonder What’s Going On

 

Stu Hatton

the six-star experience

 

Fran Graham

Golden but Tarnished

 

Lisa Gorton

The Triumphs of Caesar

 

Geoff Goodfellow

Reversing

 

Carolyn Gerrish

Domestic

 

Angela Gardner

Trance

 

Katherine Gallagher

Credo

 

John Frawley

The Ampu-Bloody-Tee

 

Toby Fitch

La Fée Verte

 

Liam Ferney

Two Zone Weekly

 

Johanna Featherstone

Ares and Aphrodite

 

Michael Farrell

Spoiled for Choice: 80 Ganymedes

 

Jeltje Fanoy

Lindfield Tempat (1980s)

 

Diane Fahey

Respite Weekend

 

Suzanne Edgar

A Strange Keepsake

 

Will Eaves

La Padrona

 

Tricia Dearborn

Memo

 

De Er He

Death like a shy doorframe

 

Sarah Day

Port

 

Bruce Dawe

Dog Heaven

 

Luke Davies

At That Moment

 

Toby Davidson

To My Lady under the Surgeon’s Hand

 

Kate Crowcroft

Snake

 

Jennifer Compton

After the Wake

 

Eva Collins

Places of Worship

 

Jennifer Chrystie

The Rajah Quilt

 

Julie Chevalier

amore of the moon

 

Ken Chau

Chinese Love Poem

 

Bonny Cassidy

Shock

 

Louise Carter

Commute

 

Ashley Capes

archaeological moment

 

David Campbell

do you take this man?

 

Larry Buttrose

The Buddha’s Bum

 

Joanne Burns

prang

 

Andrew Burke

Anaesthetics

 

Melinda Bufton

Some things about me that are still true (my wicked brow)

 

Sara Bruxner

Some Place

 

Pam Brown

Living

 

David Brooks

Broad Bean Meditation

 

Peter Boyle

The Guardian Angel

 

Rosemary Blake

Coronary

 

Craig Billingham

Bond

 

Luke Beesley

Bees Nudge the Mouth of a Feathered Rose

 

Cassandra Atherton

Bonds

 

Louis Armand

Juvenilia

 

Chris Andrews

Megalomania (I)

 

Elizabeth Allen

Catastrophe

 

Ali Alizadeh

The Ithacan

 

Robert Adamson

The Midnight Zoo

 

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen

Something Wrong

 

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