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This is not about Chilli and Wendy from Bluey
A poem from Natasha Hope-Johnstone about sapphic yearning and rage at 2:00 pm on a Saturday while drinking tea somewhere in the suburbs of Meanjin/Brisbane.
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The mating dance of otters
Josh Hopton-Stewart’s evolving relationship with body hair bubbles to the surface and he calls on his otter brothers to wear their fuzzy pelts with pride in his first piece for bad apple.
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*Bigots in Training
Wondering if we have ever been truly free in play, olive (blyth) looks at the genealogy of ideology.
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I Know How to Enter A Conversation
The world comes into view in minor and the major in this bad apple debut from Ella Quarmby.
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At the time, pure agony
Brooke Soulsby recalls an instance of great confusion between romantic and platonic feelings. Possibly a consequence of reading too many problematic YA romance plots from the early 2010s? She is grateful for a fully formed prefrontal cortex.
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LUCKY STAR
From Loretta Riach, ‘Lucky Star’ is a devotional poem to the enduring effects of watching Alien (1979) for the first time in year twelve media studies. Also: Sigourney Weaver in her undies.
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I have started having dreams about the world ending.
Maia Armistead writes of catching dusty butterfly wings in her mouth at the end of the world for her bad apple debut.
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Folds (Do Trans People Dream of Non-Binary Sheep)
From Dorian David Leigh, “This poem is about the film Blade Runner. This poem is also about current rhetoric around trans people, and the attempts of public figures to provoke a moral panic. This poem is not about the film Blade Runner.”
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i used to shop at newmarket mall until i realised it was a spaceship run by evil aliens and was subsequently abducted
In this poem, Zephyr Zhang discovers that the Westfield Newmarket is not all that it seems, and that some malls have transcended mere commerce.
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only 20
KC Marshall explores a turmoil-filled relationship in her early twenties and its impacts on her mental health both at the time and years later.
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someone on Reddit
In their bad apple debut, Zoë Deans gives us ‘someone of Reddit’. “In the wake of the 2023 election, we’re all just jetsam.”
Category: poetry
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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