poetry

John Kinsella, top right, and (clockwise), Kwame Dawes, Thurston Moore and Charmaine Papertalk Green. Courtesy Tamati Smith, The Thurston Moore Group, the University of NebraskaMy...

Images: Wikimedia Commons and AAP/EPA/Erik S. LesserDame Mary Gilmore died at 97 in late 1962, two and a half years before the birth of...

 Patrick Semansky/AP and Jeroen Jumelet/EPAIn 399 CE, Faxian — a monk in China’s Jin Dynasty — went on a pilgrimage to the Indian subcontinent to collect...

We sleep in the dark And wake to a stark New day We never learn We wait our turn Then forget what to say When someone nags We pack our bags And...

Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

Who is Jesus Christ? The facts are he was born Yeshua ben Yosef – a simple man from a simple town. Born at a...

I sit in this room, this crumbling room I grew to love, cluttered by the mementoes of a crumbled life. Framed photographs of friends,...

He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...

Things take time. To be a good surfer in my estimation takes 5 years. To be great takes 10. To be a nation it...