Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2015 Vol.1 Open Access To comply with Bareknuckle Poet’s open access policy (all for the sake of literature) Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2015 Vol.1 Howl 50 Years is now online at our ed-in-chiefs academic archive. Scroll down, the whole volume is there, free and shareable, for general reading or research. This is the more »
Anthony Lawrence two poems from Headwaters 2015. Anthony Lawrence is one of Australia’s leading poets. In 2015 Lawrence was awarded the Philip Hokgins medal and in 2017 won the Prime Ministers award for Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry, 2016) These two poems were first published by Bareknuckle Poet in our inaugural annual Anthology Vol.1, 2015 more »
Martin Edmond is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer. His books include Streets of Music (1980), Houses, Days, Skies (1988) and The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont (1999). He studied Anthropology and English, graduating MA, Victoria University of Wellington. He worked as a junior lecturer before joining avant-garde theatre group Red Mole, as a writer more »
Bareknuckle Poet Anthology Volume 1 2015 ★ This issue contains a selection of writers published here at Bareknuckle Poet during the past twelve months. It is NOT a ‘best of’ . . . it is a selection, and it was tough making that selection. If we included every author that we publish in the online journal every more »
B. R. Dionysius ~ Five Poems B. R. Dionysius Poems ★ B. R. Dionysius is a Generation X contemporary Australian poet, editor & educator. His poems have appeared in numerous national & international anthologies, journals, magazines, newspapers & other periodicals. He was born in Dalby, Queensland. He was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. His more »
that dream you keep having shower drips but there’s no water. in the bath’s deep end, faces floating on your face. eyes hung like light bulbs, front door cleaved open. blinking neon sign on the roof: THIS IS THE KILLING FLOOR the boneless ones suck at your toes harvesting hair from armpits and sinks. the more »
It, Again like a child, naturally you want to make it new to make it powerful or pretty and be done with it before it’s ready to be free so you keep it inside and lord it over it like you’re the god that you don’t believe in … Temporary Like America it doesn’t rhyme more »
The Concept Of The Queue As A Justification For Linearity Catching a bus offsets the cost of addiction. The Australian Stands at the front yet belongs at the back. Things Can be learned from browsing the fronts of books, but There’s no free ride when it comes to Reading Entering a bus in the middle’s more »
The Long Bay Debating Society I spent my twenty-first in Long Bay Penitentiary Each day in the front yards We paced up and down At night I read novels And the poetry of Percy Shelley Sometimes an education officer Would turn up and ask What are you going to do with your future? I’d tell more »