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“You see? This is how I write poetry. I write poems by breathing in and out.” —David Ishaya Osu
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A very special, dystopian collaboration between poet Freya Daly Sadgrove and artist Marc Pearson.
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Eileen Chong tells the story behind her poem ‘Singapore Koel’, featured in Pigeonholed.
Continue readingAnother edition, another launch party, another stellar line-up. In the weeks leading up to our Pigeonholed launch we’re showcasing the outstanding performers who’ll be swinging by on Friday November 16 at Grub Street Bookshop. Last, but never least, is Scott Wings. Scott Wings…
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Bot-tober draws to a close with two new poems from Raelee Lancaster and Sean M Whelan.
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“Can I trust you? Do you have a heart?” — Rafael S. W. wants to know.
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Is being born a prerequisite for being a writer? Can a robot write poetry?
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Fasten your seatbelts! Return Flight is landing.
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“Like rocking a breakup haircut before the breakup.”
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“I, too, want to cry all over Western civilisation. Then burn it the ground.”
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A video poem by Maria Vella exploring dual identities and broken languages.
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Advertising isn’t as foreign to poetry as you think, argues Ennis Cehic.
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New poetry from PRISM International’s John Wall Barger.
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We found this explosion of an interview – A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O – in the sixth issue of Going Down Swinging, published in Spring 1984.
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Alabama-raised Ebony MonCrief is a writer, performance poet, speaker and MC.
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Van Winkle has that kind of voice you believe instantly, the kind of poems you want to curl up with and the kind of sentence you would tear out and stick on your wall.
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The Official Bio Anis Mojgani is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A TEDx Speaker and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts ‘Writers in the Schools’ program, Anis has performed…
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Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. “Across the stars and space and black, a…
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Does this poem feel like it was written by a human or a computer?
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Paul Mitchell on open readers at poetry evenings – and the bad first impressions that can be made.
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The topic of food has long been a lively muse for the creative mind – think sensual stimulation, social ritual, folk traditions, nourishment, and its converse, deprivation. The inaugural SecondBite Poetry Prize was an opportunity for Australian poets to muster…
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Paul Mitchell examines the editorial biases at work in the Australian poetry community.
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Alicia Sometimes chats to performance poet and recent Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship recipient Candy Royalle. The Official Bio Candy Royalle is a performance artist and poet who fuses cinematic storytelling, poetry and unique vocal rhythms with confronting, political and heart-thumping…
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Adam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: ‘Why do you write poetry?’
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