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Degas Girls
gorm hendo dances through memories of Degas girls and their made-up bodies in this prose poem for FRAMED!.
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Everything is a love poem when I’m thinking of you
Is beauty always in the eye of the beholder? Kate explores the emotional spirals we can enter when looking at true love in the eye.
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a response to ‘perseus and andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at boscotrecase’
With sympathy for the villain Ketos and an enduring love for classical art, harold coutts forms a new poetic narrative of Perseus and Andromeda.
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A weighted masterpiece
‘A weighted masterpiece’ from Brooke Soulsby looks to break free from restriction after feeling pressed down or moulded to stone by the expectations of others.
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Slaughter The Bull for Your Hometown
Ava Rose calls for ritual sacrifice via a hometown patriotism in this Pablo Picasso inspired poem.
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The fallen angel, or how to be full
“I felt like it was somehow a portrait of me.”. ‘The Fallen Angel’ is a resonate work for Gabriel McGregor and this poem brings to life the feeling of, “yes, this is what being nonbinary feels like.”
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The Lament for Icarus
Icarus’s long battle with societal pressure ends and he is finally able to rest. A poem by Lara Morgan in response to the painting of the same name by Herbert James Draper.
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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
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
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
A comedic commentary from Mick Rinny of Piero Mazoni’s artwork in relation of being a broke tertiary student.
Category: poetry
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