Author: Bareknuckle Poet
Andrew Galan ~ Five Poems
Andrew Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of renowned poetry event BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Described by reviewers as ‘riddled with satire’, his poetry is gut, direct, and imagination and reality meeting to eat and fight. Showcased at events including the Woodford, National Folk and Queensland Poetry festivals, and Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam, his verse appears in more »
Ashley-Elizabeth Best ~ Five Poems
Ashley-Elizabeth Best is from Cobourg, ON, Canada. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in CV2, Berfrois, Grist, Ambit Magazine, Glasgow Review of Books, Lumina, and The Literary Review of Canada. Recently she was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her first book, Slow States of Collapse is forthcoming with ECW Press. She lives and writes more »
World Poetry Day 2016 Amateur Poetry Competition
To celebrate World Poetry Day 2016 we are holding our inaugural amateur poetry competition. Opens Today 18 March 2016 and closes April 18 2016. The Rules . Open to residents of Queensland, Australia who have not yet attained any formal publication credits (excluding personal blogs/social media). . One poem only, no word count limit, no theme, more »
David Adès ~ Five Poems
David Adès is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet currently relocating to Australia after living in Pittsburgh since 2011. He has been a member of Friendly Street Poets since 1979. He is the author of Mapping the World (Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press, 2008) commended for the Anne Elder Award 2008, and the chapbook Only more »
Rose Hunter ~ Three Poems
Rose Hunter is the author of the poetry books You As Poetry (Texture Press, Oklahoma), [four paths] (Texture), to the river (Artistically Declined Press, Oregon), as well as the chapbook descansos (dancing girl press, Chicago). She is from Brisbane, spent many years in Canada, and is now in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. More information about her is available at Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me more »
Rot by Laura Ellen Scott
Rot by Laura Ellen Scott By way of introduction, I should tell you that when I was seven, my father took me and my little brother, Phil, on a car ride at three in the morning. We drove for hours and hours, stopping only for pop and potty. The next day, policemen took my Dad more »
My Life by Hasti Abbasi
Hasti Abbasi was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy from Griffith University in 2017. Her submission consisted of a comparative literary study of dislocation, writing and identity in Persian and Australian contemporary fiction, and a creative novella. She has been gaining recognition through actively publishing material for a number of years in literary journals including Southerly, Mascara Literary more »
Mark Terrill ~ Six Poems
Vox Pop I thought about where I was until I was there where I thought I understood— the town talking to the city and the words not wasted there— but they couldn’t hear what it is I’m hearing by way of destruction & abandonment & washing up on another shore— being interviewed by Slick Entrepreneurs, more »
Peter Bakowski ~ Three Poems
The courage season The days. You try to settle them in diaries, but they can’t be Herded, tamed. They’re here to counter, perhaps best Each chess move, your ability to push out from dead corners. Curiosity, action and laughter are contagious as are their Opposites. At crucial times you’ll need to go out on a more »