Joan de la Kagsawa 9/17/23 Joan de la Kagsawa 9/17/23

Definition of Man

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

Leon Karagic 9/11/23 Leon Karagic 9/11/23

tape-eater

what it is to become a dream.

Clare Gim 9/11/23 Clare Gim 9/11/23

The First Supper

The mountains will bare themselves and our hands will receive.

Juliette Jarrett 6/26/23 Juliette Jarrett 6/26/23

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.

James Wily 6/7/23 James Wily 6/7/23

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.

Joan de la Kagsawa 6/7/23 Joan de la Kagsawa 6/7/23

Great Western Highway

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

Zara Hussain 6/4/23 Zara Hussain 6/4/23

Landscaping:

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

Angus McGregor 6/4/23 Angus McGregor 6/4/23

Finding new moves

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

Bella Wellstead 5/10/23 Bella Wellstead 5/10/23

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.

Mong Nguyen 4/19/23 Mong Nguyen 4/19/23

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

Nathan Phillis 4/19/23 Nathan Phillis 4/19/23

Cynicism is a whale fall

I often dream of Lutīyā the cosmic whale.

Ella Avni 2/23/23 Ella Avni 2/23/23

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

Sonal Kamble 2/23/23 Sonal Kamble 2/23/23

Chambers

I find it in a soggy little cavity underneath footbridge.

Ariana Haghighi 2/23/23 Ariana Haghighi 2/23/23

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."

Faye Tang 10/9/22 Faye Tang 10/9/22

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.

Amelie Roediger 10/7/22 Amelie Roediger 10/7/22

Gilgamesh and the Invisible Hand

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

Sylvia Ye 10/4/22 Sylvia Ye 10/4/22

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

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

Amy Tan 10/4/22 Amy Tan 10/4/22

evergreen

making night envious of our glamour and design

Ariana Haghighi 10/4/22 Ariana Haghighi 10/4/22

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

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

Georgia Mantle 10/4/22 Georgia Mantle 10/4/22

Collective reading and the politics of reading together

The process of collective reading is a stark contrast to how we often conceive of reading as a solitary act