than in Crete. More like olive trees. They rise / from the earth like burning snakes. The trees also burn. / Bushes, the basilica, stones, all remain black.

A sequence of five love poems by the poet, novelist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Luke Davies.

A sequence of poems by Emma Lew: 'Snow Gold', 'My Illusion of the Tycoon' and 'Jasmine'.

In 2003 B. R. Dionysius received an unexpected tax debt thanks to a literary grant that didn’t factor in HECS repayments.

Even as I uncover materials that suggest Renate’s appearance – a portrait of her sister on an East Berlin balcony in 1961, prisoner records from age sixteen till liberation, a Hollerith card that catalogues her physical features – she remains stubbornly abstract, a dream that can’t be retrieved.