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Welcome

Welcome… by Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office
Published by Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office
in Melbourne

Welcome to this loving snapshot of Melbourne poetry.
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Poetry

‘The Elephant’ by Andy Jackson
Published by Whitmore Press
in the thin bridge

There isn’t much room left for us…
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Poetry

‘Untitled’ by Behrouz Boochani

Published by Cordite Poetry Review
in Cordite 56.0: EXPLODE

Here, in the neighbourhood of the people who stare…
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Poetry

‘Industry, Melbourne’ by Belinda Rule
Published by Meanjin
in Autumn 2018

Morning: the bay is a saucepan of milk…
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Poetry

‘The Novelist Elena Ferrante’ by Bella Li
Published by Vagabond Press
in Argosy

For instance, in Ischia. Those dark corners where the sound does not…
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Poetry • Spoken word

‘Australia, I love you. But…’ (video) by Candy Bowers

Published by General Thinking
in The Streets of Barangaroo

Dear Australia, I love you. But you’ve been a really shit foster parent…
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Poetry • Spoken word

‘I want to go down’ (audio) by Jax Jacki Brown
Published by ABC Radio National
in Soundproof

I want to go down, filled with anticipation at seeing you spread before me…
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Poetry

‘Historians’ by Jeanine Leane
Published by Overland

They come out to the community in a big four-wheel drive…

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Poetry

‘Walpurgisnacht Ballet’ by Jessica Wilkinson
Published by Australian Poetry
in Australian Poetry Journal

Humour at the helm and pointing to hell…
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Poetry

‘Bairnsdale’ by Jonno Revanche
Published by Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office
in Reading Victoria

The house replays Nan…
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Poetry

‘Cartography’ by Jordie Albiston
Published by Inkerman & Blunt
in Australian Love Poems

What is the space between Altona and Eltham
but a handful of miles on a paperscrap map…
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Poetry

‘me too’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Published by @slamup
in Twitter

there are other women
who want to say
me too…
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Poetry

‘Not Dead Yet’ by Timmah Ball

Published by Writers Victoria
in The Victorian Writer

The architect enters the room…
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Poetry

‘Visiting’ [for Stephen] by Tony Birch
Published by Cordite Books
in Broken Teeth

I trace your life along the river…