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It comes back to me that I married K. because he whistled Bach perfectly – that was, as I remember, the reason I gave myself and others. It’s as good a basis as any for marriage and I was not disappointed.

Two poems – 'Night of Electrical storm' and 'Night of Poverty' – by Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova.

How could I doubt both myself and the world? / you cannot command the rain to stop nor a bird to perch on your hand / imagination is like a knife—a single flash / and my soul is drenched in sweat

A major work by anthologist and award-winning New Zealand poet, Jenny Bornholdt.

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.

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Journal 2004–2005

Two Nights

Two Poems

The Rocky Shore

Four Poems

Love Poems

Three Poems

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