Contents

Sarah Holland-Batt	Introduction
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Fay Zwicky	In Memoriam, JB
Robert Adamson	Winter, Hospital Bed
Jordie Albiston	cobalt
Cassandra Atherton	Gypsy
Luke Beesley	Reunion Song
Judith Beveridge	Flying Foxes, Wingham Brush
Judith Bishop	The Grey Parrot
Kim Cheng Boey	Time is a river, time is a bridge
Ken Bolton	Reach & Ambition
Peter Boyle	Eleutheria
Margaret Bradstock	Forty-one degrees
Lisa Brockwell	The Shower Stall
David Brooks	The Night Coming
Pam Brown	Soft Targets
Joanne Burns	compensation
Michelle Cahill	Minor Domestic
Lee Cataldi	c’est l’homme
Julie Chevalier	another step away
Eileen Chong	Kumera
Jennifer Compton	Two Women
Stuart Cooke	Fallen Myrtle Trunk
Shevaun Cooley	meadows empty of him, animal eyes, impersonal as glass
Judith Crispin	Five Threnodies for Maralinga: Part III
Sarah Day	Reservoir
Shastra Deo	I Saw the Devil in the Cane Fields
B. R. Dionysius	Barnacle
Lucy Dougan	The Throne
Laurie Duggan	Six Afterimages
Adrienne Eberhard	Distance
Ali Cobby Eckermann	The Apology Day breakfast
Stephen Edgar	La Vita Nuova
Anne Elvey	Putting on your boots
Russell Erwin	Because, like the weather
Diane Fahey	The Art of Birds
Michael Farrell	The Snake
Susan Fealy	For Cornflowers to Sing
Liam Ferney	Main Street Social
Luke Fischer	Stones
Toby Fitch	27 Materialisations of Sydney Cloud
John Foulcher	Before the Storm
William Fox	The Western District
Angela Gardner	Unkempt if You Will
Lisa Gorton	Empirical VII
Phillip Hall	Inheritance
Natalie Harkin	Heart’s Core Lament
Jennifer Harrison	The Tent
Dimitra Harvey	Acrocorinth
John Hawke	Zero Degrees
Dominique Hecq	The Hanged Man
Paul Hetherington	Inchings and Belongings: After Paul Strand
Barry Hill	Mister Lincoln or Camp David
Andy Jackson	Song not for you
Clive James	Head Wound
Carol Jenkins	Barns in Charlevoix
A. Frances Johnson	Greenfield development
Jill Jones	Murray andante
Amanda Joy	Almost Pause/ Pareidolia
Carmen Leigh Keates	To Paint the Inside of a Church
Antigone Kefala	On Loss
John Kinsella	A New Norcia Subset
Louis Klee	Windborne Avenue
Mike Ladd	The Corpse Flower Sketch
Anthony Lawrence	A Tasting
Bronwyn Lea	Zeitgeist
Jeanine Leane	Over the River Memory
Emma Lew	Rattling the Forms
Cassie Lewis	In Memoriam
Bella Li	The Novelist Elena Ferrante
Jennifer Maiden	Metronome
Caitlin Maling	Fisheries Raid
David McCooey	One Way or Another
Peter Minter	Remembering Sandstone Country
Marjon Mossammaparast	The Spanish Revelation
Philip Neilsen	Anna Karenina
Geoff Page	Bombala
Claire Potter	The Hidden Side to Love
Ron Pretty	Pigeons of the Dome
Brendan Ryan	The Lowlands of Moyne
Gig Ryan	Muzzled Altar
Tracy Ryan	Homeschooling
Philip Salom	Strange Music
Jaya Savige	Fort Dada
Michael Sharkey	Nudge Nudge
Melinda Smith	Not to be
Vivian Smith	A Note to Alvaro
Maria Takolander	Nox
Andrew Taylor	Shells
Heather Taylor Johnson	When I am Gardening, When You Ask
Tim Thorne	Waking
Mark Tredinnick	The Habit of Wings
Todd Turner	Horse
John Upton	Crossing Galata, Istanbul
Chris Wallace-Crabbe	Even Solomon in All His Glory
John Watson	Long-On
Alan Wearne	The Barassi Variations
Petra White	A Quiet Morning
Jessica L. Wilkinson	Apollon Musagète
Chloe Wilson	The First Four Hours
Fiona Wright	A queer and sultry summer
Rae Desmond Jones	III
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