Contemporary Australian Poetry ★ Published & Archived by Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters ISSN 2204-0420 ★ Categorised by Social Generation (cohort) as defined by Australia’s McCrindle Research Centre & The Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Contemporary Australian Poets & Poetry
Baby Boomers [b.1946-64] Generation X [b.1965 -79] Millennials [b.1980-94] Generation Z [b.1995-2009]
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Gulag Wind In memory of Liam and Frankie Davison…Flight MHI7 Between 1932-33 an estimated 7 million people were murdered or perished on Stalin’s concentration camps in the Ukraine. And almost 80% of the region’s intellectuals were handed death sentences, a majority without trial… Executioners are forensic raconteurs; their charges’ last words and breaths are always 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 »
B. R. Dionysius ~ Six 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 »
♾ PUBLISHED BY RETORT MAGAZINE, ON DECEMBER 9TH, 2003 grunge obsession try the picture left us unimpressed shattering cannibals apparently just like our fountain a lowclass ape which the city of lessons — girlism got him to clean up for once all i knows been exaggerated badges worn just for the shine flying meant being more »