September 2026
Selectors: Coral Carter. Rose van Son, Barry Sanbrook, Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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autumn starlight
the youngest sibling
braids my hair
dead leaves
smoke escaping from
the burned book pile
Rowan Beckett Minor
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clouds roll
across the bay
a swell of gulls
blue skyline
tinged pink and grey—
galahs
Gwen Bitti
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Storytelling
in the stringybark—
the arr-arr-arr of ravens
last light
honeysuckle smothers
the old milking shed
jupiter and venus
sit close
winter night
Sabrina Blom
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powerlines slump
in summer heat
snoozing in the hammock
frustration
making things add up
tax return time
Rohan Buettel
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after the doctor visit
a shot
of gin
palm readings
we each get
a tall dark stranger
reunion
the years
between
Alanna C. Burke
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neon rain—
the long drive home
from night shift
Anne Curran
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bush walk
the silence
of granite
picking strawberries
ladybird
flies home
hoeing weeds
the last green
turns brown
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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a man of few words
his eyebrows
a thesaurus
Candy Gordon
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farm ute
a kelpie peers
from each side of the cab
dry lakebed
buried deep in grass
a 5 knot sign
ex-lover
wondering if you
sometimes google me too
Louise Hopewell
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first snow
the child
rejoices
Govind Joshi
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dancing butterflies …
the ritual
of a morning walk
gold field …
amongst the artefacts
a bush pea
Thomas Landgraf
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flash flood –
saturated lawn
becomes sea grass
Sarai Mannolini-Winwood
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waiting for a plane
waiting this waiting
a bird’s folded wing
Mardi May
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summer’s end
lifeguard flags lean
against the clubhouse
her first coffee
in their Kombi
migrating plovers
red-bellied black
we all agree on
the path home
Marietta McGregor
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heated bickering
all the different colours
of tomatoes
weed patrol
the blue shine
of a beetle shell
finding an echidna
on a rock
—foreshore engraving
Leanne Mumford
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only held together
by odd bolts and screws
favourite chair
Nick O’Connor
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sun bleached bones
and driftwood – rumors
of the sea
M. R Pelletier
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walking home …
a tiny maple leaf tucked
behind my shoelace
state library
the carpet patterned
with books
past midnight
the ginger cat still
purring in my arms
Vanessa Lara Proctor
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red resin
the blood of
a river gum
the river
pools of life
receding
acacia
clothed in paperbark
post flood
Barry Sanbrook
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midwinter skies
hail stones
marbles on the footpath
Soulo
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cirrus intortus
a brushtroke of indigo
over the black horizon
Joshua St. Claire
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father’s journal
the torn fringe
of a moth’s wing
cave paintings
mustangs give themselves
to the wind
desert mirage
a burrowing owl mimics
the snake’s rattle
Debbie Strange
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last day of work …
breaking the lock
of my hobby room
Steliana Cristina Voicu
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summer dusk—
a dragonfly rests
on the bamboo fence
Yi-jung Chen
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