• Hugo

    Hugo

    Josiah Morgan’s friend Hugo once said, “For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to reincarnate as a seagull. Live on a rock with all my friends, squawk shit, fly around, steal peoples chips. That’s gotta be my dream. Can you imagine how great it would feel.” This is a poem about that. Kinda.

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  • Hardón

    Hardón

    Paying respect Keith Haring’s more salacious works, this new poem from Sazzok speaks to the dehumanising squeeze of making queerness consumable.

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  • Self Portrait, 1929 – 2023

    Self Portrait, 1929 – 2023

    Billie Angus engages with her relative Rita in this poem, knowing she can’t speak back but seeking the conversation anyway. A time bending piece from 21-year-old Billie to 21-year-old Rita.

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  • william sutton’s saint sebastian

    william sutton’s saint sebastian

    In which kī visits the art gallery as yet another bible-emo-turned-trans and confronts bodies, masculinities and the uneasy vulnerability of seeing and being seen.

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  • The Familiar, The Peculiar, and Inspired

    The Familiar, The Peculiar, and Inspired

    A comedic commentary from Mick Rinny of Piero Mazoni’s artwork in relation of being a broke tertiary student.

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  • 16 years strong

    16 years strong

    A poem is a response to a portrait Chris Girven’s friend drew of them, illustrating he safety and harmony of an enduring friendship, and how beautiful you can feel through the eyes of someone you love.

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  • Laocoön is writhing

    Laocoön is writhing

    Step into the shoes of Cassandra and watch the party before the fall, even as Troy begins to burn.

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  • dinner parting

    dinner parting

    The aftermath of an Essex Street dinner party. Desire beautifully unfinished.

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  • Inside you are wild horses and the men of Thrace

    Inside you are wild horses and the men of Thrace

    After William Francis Calderon, On the Sea-Beat Coast, Where Hardy Thracians Tame the Savage Horse, 1905. i.i bound until my ribs cracked like semicolons. until my chest caved in.i fell off the horse and broke my neck.pain has channelled a new, wet cave in the cliffside of my body.aspiration chambers—heaving, franticalveoli with all their rushing…

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  • Painting in Squares for Dora Maar

    Painting in Squares for Dora Maar

    ‘The Weeping Woman’ is a painting by Pablo Picasso of his then partner, Dora Maar. Dora Maar was an innovator in photomontage and surrealism. Dora experienced domestic violence at the hands of Picasso, and history has typically only remembered her as his muse. In this poem, Ted Greensmith-West writes for Dora, an artist and innovator…

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