Wickedly delightful, this is a relatively small, light, most engaging book blending detectives and poetry. It questions the notions of inspiration and creativity. Vibrantly written by A M Carson, the poems collar the reader. There are thirty two short prose …
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Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens, turned his signature wit to a number of subjects–boyhood, the legend of King Arthur and even cats. “If man could be crossed with the cat,” he once wrote, “it would improve man, but …
HERE is a concept of a collaboration of artists that is a concert of lost lockdown intimacies, a meditation on identity, locality and reconnection in the wake of isolation. These ideas are conveyed through music, words and visuals. During COVID-19 …
THE FIRES
In late 2019 and early 2020 there were devastating fires in Australia, the worst of those in Southern New South Wales and Eastern Victoria. Australia is a land of true extremes. And danger.
The Australian land was suffering …
The Voice Of Experience
Some people say
You should go away
from the ledge
Come back from the edge
You’ve gone the wrong way
I, I will show you the right way
They cry to you
Come …
how dare this one young impudent
pink individual
rise up, disorganised, anarchic, flambuoyant
petal
dares to break with tyranny of tradition
with its own accord and colour swell
how dare bare blossoms break
bleak blight of uniform winter’s
BABY’S SCREAMING
Baby's screaming Baby's playing up and crying she's got no sense of timing we've gone all the way to go to the beach but our baby's crying is well out of our reach Baby always wants…
A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW
A tiny fragile white butterfly
Shoots vertically
Above the archetypal Australian eucalyptus
And the
Sprawling green yucca plants
With their dangerous enclosed points and burnt skirts.
Lynne Lancaster
24 July, 2021…
Lock down has given rise to all kinds of reflections, artistic and otherwise. This particular piece harks back to my first and still singular moment as a poet/lyricist.
In early 2015 my wife Jenny Eriksson was in the midst of …
This tiny but beautiful gallery in Darlinghurst is currently displaying a sister-brother exhibition. Jo Nolan is the painter. She has a Master of Art from the University Of New South Wales. Her brother Paul is a journalist and poet who …