Hidden Author
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Paul Hetherington reads 'Gap' and 'River' which feature in the 2016 ACT anthology.
Gap
A gap opened every eveningemitting a panting – as soft as darkness,or stray dog at exhaustion's end.Unsettling, like a straggly bird,it dropped dark feathersof prickling desire into the room.It knew the edges of solitud ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Kia Groom reads 'Inferno I: Invasion Day' which feature in the 2016 WA anthology.
Inferno:I
Invasion Day
My thighs are cold in the crevicewhere the Coke can restedas I drove. By the mailboxesthe ginger guy is ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Kia Groom reads 'Tulpa' which feature in the 2016 WA anthology.
Tulpa
from the Tibetan meaning 'to build' or 'to construct'
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In 1992, Alice made a Tulpa.
Carry an amulet. Kiss its three sharp corners. Shine.
It began subjective, but with practice could be seen: imagined ghost that flickered in the physical ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Kia Groom reads 'Phantasmagoria' which feature in the 2016 WA anthology.
Phantasmagoria
Dot by dot, the backsof eyelids. Draw it slowly,shape of sentimental spine.You curve that way.
I breathe the countdown& the world falls, air by air.
In the white room you cloudover bedsheets,unsettled weather, & no ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Kia Groom reads 'Catholic Education' which feature in the 2016 WA anthology.
Catholic Education
Itch in the vein, the road hot stillfrom sun, an asphalt streambisecting unlit houses. Slip of an alleycat through a spittle of starlight.
Last cigarette, the way Em curlsher yellow fingers into small mouthedsweater ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Kia Groom reads 'Alice at Last' which feature in the 2016 WA anthology.
Alice at Last
'Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly...'– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I un-wake to damage.Light-bulb stutters, franticonce off, once on, illuminatesimagined cityskyline.
Inside my bedroom it rainsf ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, MTC Cronin reads 'Above Us' and 'The World's Yard' which feature in the 2016 QLD anthology.
Above Us
Above us we hear the windmill yelping, circling like a trapped dog while the house sits like a black skull on the hill. Above us the tombs are rising from their rest and travelling along the roads beneath trees t ... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, MTC Cronin reads 'Little Track', 'The Grass is Full', and 'The Correct Way' which feature in the 2016 QLD anthology.
Little Track
Time falls outof your house
and onto a slabof lucerne which
the cows eat asthey wander away
from the orchard'slong flowing hour.
Sweet and fullof wild honey
is the floweris the bird.
... (read more)
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Aidan Coleman reads 'Secondary' which features in the 2016 SA anthology.
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Angling over star-fields,the pitches lit like billiard tables.Those lengths you were shouted up and back,lungs scoured by brillo air.The lazier concord of close mown grassand low hanging fruitof the short boundary. A tang of primitiveelectron ... (read more)