To celebrate Pete Spence’s birthday (30 September) Rochford Street Press is offering a discount (for today only) on his latest chapbook Kynetonbury Tales or Dog Days. The special birthday rate is $6 within Australia and $10 outside Australia. If you want to celebrate Pete’s birthday by buying this book please email us at the email address on the website…

Has anyone here read The Monkey's Mask, by Dorothy Porter?

The Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect (McGillis) in the…

Working on a series of Aussie nature poems for a particular purpose... enjoying every minute of it... will reveal more soon... LJ

 With the coming of every election, confusion reigns supreme at poling booths all over the country. Each party's dedicated faithful hand out a form of instant litter known as 'how to vote cards' and the ever-growing army of floating voters ignores them.

The 'how to vote card' is a political paradox. It can be very useful when deciding how not to vote, despite the unconscionable vitriol spewed out daily in the gutter press of the Rupert the Dirty…

A POEM FROM A HUME HIGHWAY STRETCH BETWEEN BELANGLO AND CAMPBELLTOWN

Sun-fired wattle like god descending.

Between alien python tyre shreds,

scorched bitumen, shattered longnecks,

wombats with bloody skid marks,

the sleeping b-double veers

into a family's wagon. 

Sun-fired wattle like god descending. 

Slick black streets
Finks on every corner
With eyes on prizes
Hands in the pockets
Of lushes
Bare money thrown
On pavements
Bloody
And creeping
Others know that
The hand and murking
Is lurking on every corner
Eyes on your gold ring
Eyes on your prize.