epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Sarah Broom [Broom, Sarah]

small she was squashed up as small as a baby bird, damp and secret and reluctant in its egg, as small as the breathless tip of a fern frond, as ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:C. K. Stead [Stead, C. K.]

epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Janis Freegard [Freegard, Janis]

ii. Black and white cats curl together on the table outside the shark museum – an Icelandic yin and yang. The little farmhouse dog demands a tummy rub before we ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Erik Kennedy

Notes Towards a Definition of Essential Work Since we stopped going outside, I hadn’t had a proper haircut for months. Luckily, I knew a guy who knew a guy who ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Ouyang Yu [Yu, Ouyang]

And mulberry field change means if it really means Anything. Hence a sea of people is what A mountain and sea of people could be reduced to Although someone in ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Gregory O'Brien [O’Brien, Gregory]

The cleaners have not removed the black negligée. One of the great lessons of the Kremlin cathedrals is how indebted Russian avant-garde art—with its black crosses, circles, squares and flattened ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Chris Tse

Present tension Winter claims your shoulders first. Your neck tenses. You side-step a dead hedgehog that keeps getting moved from pavement to gutter and back again, like the world’s simplest ...

epub |eng | 2020-11-13 | Author:Oodgeroo [Oodgeroo]

For Grannie Sunflower, Last of the Noonuccals Gooboora, Gooboora, the Water of Fear That awed the Noonuccals once numerous here, The Bunyip is gone from your bone-strewn bed, And the ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Bill Manhire

Lives of the Poets There was once a fellow called Pickleton who lived alone, and do you know why? Because he was a poet! Strange thing, though: he may have ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Robert Adamson [Robert Adamson]

I swallow, nothing’s left of my pride – the prison doctor stitched my cut wrists without anaesthetic, his idea of punishment. Laying with a blanket on the bed-board, I think ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Martin Edmond [Edmond, Martin and Roberts, Nigel]

where a thousand men with short handled shovels demolished a mountain in a fortnight … where i died of a broken heart having lived on sugar alone / for 3 ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Hinemoana Baker

LOOK AT WHAT WE FUCKING WELL HAVE Just look at what we fucking well have. The pocket the packet the postcard the purse not the hanged man and the constant ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Karlo Mila

But your mother listens to your heart it is beating too loud for the room and the sixty year old woman that she is who does not dance pulls herself ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bill Manhire

VIVIENNE PLUMB Goldfish My son doesn’t go to school any more he goes somewhere else. He goes out walking alone with his hat on his head, lies on a bed, ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Mikaela Nyman

1 Grandmothers and grandfathers (iTaukei dialect) WIFE – Woman in Ferocious Environments I am a foreigner I am educated My father-in-law rants I am useless I have not borne any ...