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Poetry
Since when was this about coconuts?
Aishath Sara Arif
Autumn 2025
19 March 2025
A new poem by Aishath Sara Arif ...
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Sacrificed on Altar of Vice
Brittany Bentley
Autumn 2025
19 March 2025
A new poem by Brittany Bentley ...
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Sister
David Stavanger
Autumn 2025
19 March 2025
A new poem by David Stavanger ...
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Drinking late at night after a snowfall in Thimphu
Benu P. Dahal
Autumn 2025
19 March 2025
A new poem by Benu P. Dahal ...
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Your heart sir
Grace Yee
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
Mr Ho, there are slow-leaking aneurysms in your abdomen, ...
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Dialogue
Simran Khera
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
the wind has always been my favourite poem ...
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Country centred metaphors/rockets
Nathan 'mudyi' Sentance
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
They named a brick after my father / First Aboriginal brick placed / Honouring Elders / On corpses of tree cousins too stupid to live ...
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Returning Home Again
vika mana
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
I gave cyclones the names of my siblings / Just so I could pretend that we all went back home ...
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queen mother coloniser
Maria van Neerven
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
queen mother coloniser / do you sleep at night / while your ships invade ...
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@ClanC #overflow
Ian Simmons
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
I had followed him on Twitter long before I turned so bitter ...
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Self-portrait as Mourning Cuttlefish
Debbie Lim
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
In the dream we had so much in common / we were practically interchangeable ...
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Night birth
Leni Shilton
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
In frosty dark where plovers cry at clouds / I drive fast across town / thinking I hear the baby call to me ...
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Unbraiding seeds of home
Denise Chapman
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
dem folks feed off Black women’s / cornrows ...
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This is a true story
Lucy Eidelson
Summer 2024
1 December 2024
As I twist my umbilical chord / it hums like fruit ...
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Love does not cross the Yarra
Andrew Millar
Spring 2024
13 September 2024
A new poem by Andrew Millar ...
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