Poetry & Short Stories

Bushranger Brady teaches that defeat is never the last word …

Matthew Brady There have been three different Matthew Bradys in my life, and now I’ve met a fourth thanks to Pete Hay....

America is a Gun

THURSDAY June 23 … • Guardian: Paul Ryan drowned out by Democrats’ during chaotic gun control sit-in – campaign live Also published,...

A poem as lovely as a tree …

Wentworth Park …

Oh now there’s an erstwhile director of our health A master of manipulation and the art of cover-up He continually denied the...

Mayors of Clarence …

Oh yes the mayors of Clarence, the present and the past They’ve stained their hands forever with the poisons of Wentworth Park....

Trumpism: The Apprentice With The Golden Arse

I had a dog named Trump; a bastard inbred little poodle, A smelly, slobbering, flea-bitten cur, all ponce and shrill flapdoodle. He...

TARKINE … After The Fire …

A completely alien landscape. Every thing has changed. I feel so out of place. Yet it is all strangely familiar … The...

The Apple Cart

Oh Will Hodgman and his boys with their reckless aimless ploys, Are creating bigger hurdles in their quest to still inform us...

DEAR GOD

Dr. Baljit SinghDear God My eyes were, dried out Why did you fill them again? Anyway, I like it when it flows...

Tasmanian Toast …

Christopher Nagle My daughter and her father Shall together take the sights Of old Tasmania To set a line and catch each...