What is our crime? What have we done to be punished like this? We know we came by ‘illegal way’ but then we didn’t have
Hani Aden is a young Somali asylum seeker and writer who spent 11 months on Christmas Island. She lives in community detention in Sydney. She
Graham Akhurst is currently in his last semester of a Bachelor of Creative Arts in writing at the University of Queensland. Prior to this he
Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s latest collection is My Feet Are Hungry (Pitt Street Poetry). His American volume, Afternoon in the Central Nervous System, is due from George
The Promise By Tony Birch University of Queensland Press, 2014 ISBN: 978 0 7022 4999 0 Reviewed by MARGOT McGOVERN A father mourning his
The Secret Maker of the World by Abbas El-Zein University of Queensland Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780701150071 Reviewed by TESSA LUNNEY How strange, my love. In
Foreign Soil Maxine Beneba Clarke Hachette Australia Sydney, NSW, 2014 ISBN 978-0-73363242-6 Reviewed by HEATHER TAYLOR JOHNSON Sometimes we read prose – a novel, perhaps,
The Last Candles of the Night by Ian Bedford Lacunar Publishing ISBN: 9781922198129 Reviewed by SUBHASH JAIRETH The Last Candles of the Night opens
Transactions of Belonging by Jaya Padmanabhan Leadstart Publishing ISBN-13: 978-9383562275 Reviewed by JESSICA FALEIRO The word ‘belonging’ evokes a strong feeling of connection to
Stone Postcard by Paul Magee ISBN 9780980852394 John Leonard Press Reviewed by BONNY CASSIDY A short poem, “Swimming in Minus”, lies at the centre
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