Keywords: New Australian Poems
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Shane McCauley
- 19 May 2009
3 Comments
You will look left and right .. so many times .. the road will never be crossed ... Swim in nothing deeper .. than a basin ... and say a prayer .. before you sleep at night.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Hurley and Grace Yee
- 05 May 2009
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even if we spent the next hundred years .. carving roast lamb on Sundays .. buttering white bread .. and boiling Brussels sprouts .. we could never be them .. nor they us
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and B. F. Moloney
- 28 April 2009
He was flying up the guts .. hair and legs and arms ablaze .. Tacklers flew and flew again .. failing to disturb his crazed .. run of passion ... under Queensland skies.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- William Rush
- 14 April 2009
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Her face gives little away except .. there is a definite invitation to worship .. which we do in our own way .. hearing in this hall .. built with unholy oil, whispers of war
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C. Smith
- 31 March 2009
All along the cell-block .. The singing echoes like a threat .. voice flatter than Bob Dylan's .. loaded with false jocularity .. his sweat sour in the grey slot
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Lach-Newinsky
- 10 March 2009
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To attain God everything must go:
will, self, knowledge, word, God Himself ... Their faith is words.
Mine unspeakable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam and Ben Hession
- 10 February 2009
your community
is at call and liberty ... stands o'er an alien harbour ... the land of promise wherein thou art a stranger
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Benjamin and Deborah Ruiz Wall
- 03 February 2009
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phosphorus .. above empty streets .. politicians promise .. vengeance will bring peace
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Thom Sullivan
- 20 January 2009
outside a rank of .. gloomy farm utes .. wide-eyed gazing
.. hound dog howling
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crooning a primal
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lovelust upwards
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towards a doughy
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round of moon.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Isabella Fels
- 06 January 2009
1 Comment
I love the way you go from fat to thin ... Straight to curly (October 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kathryn Hamann
- 09 December 2008
1 Comment
You are the city that recognised .. no temple but yourself ... those precious sparkling walls of intellect ... Shall I go down and trouble .. you with my touch? You as yet able .. to bar the gates
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christopher Kelen
- 02 December 2008
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this poor house where ... as in the book of songs ... a famous rat eats the seedlings ... as they rise
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