ravel rousers

Visual Art ∙ "ravel rousers"

Visual ArtPaula Abul31 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, paula abul, art, artwork, illustration, old1, old2

Au Naturel

Fiction ∙ "A naked woman, metaphor had taught me, was either a weakness or a strength. She might be a panther or a worm, depending on the book that you were reading, but a naked man just was, like a rock pool: as neutral as the Swiss."

FictionYen Radecki22 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, fiction, Yen Radecki, short story, au naturel, old1, old2

The other day I saw an old friend. She said, ‘How are you?’ I said, ‘I’m good. How are you?’ She said, ‘I’m good, too.’ Then we went our separate ways.

Fiction ∙ "A friend’s father’s moonshine rearranges my insides, makes me vomit up the sun."

FictionJennifer Nguyen8 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, fiction, jennifer nguyen, old1, old2

The girl of your dreams finds the god of death on the toilet • I boast about my strip club earnings just before I cry (Ghazal-esque)

Poetry ∙ "The oldest woman warns me: tell him nothing. She / would know, her lips pulled tight by the gray thread of age.”

PoetryRax King5 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, poems, tonka, rax king, old1, old2

A Spell to Exorcise a Bad Housemate • Tonka • Musée des Frisson

Poetry ∙ "While you mix with your wand hand, call up your preferred real estate blog with the other. Invoke the well-lit corners: the warm and untouched homes of northside, east, west, southside, and Grand Designs.”

Open Letter To Whichever Able-Bodied Nerd Hacked My Cybernetic Leg Braces

Fiction ∙ "Dear Able-Bodied Nerd, I first suspected something was up when my cybernetic leg braces started playing “These Boots Are Made For Walking” by Nancy Sinatra every 100 steps I took."

FictionAlistair Baldwin18 June 2018ibis house, subbed in, alistair baldwin, open letter, fiction, old1, old2

sonogram • the bricklayer • projective geometry

Poetry ∙ "i don’t know the prime factors of 58 008 / but if you hold it upside down, you’ll see / i’ve written boobs on this calculator”

Split Ends

Fiction ∙ "The plate seems to have acted fairly, unlike my housemates."

FictionJessie Perrin26 May 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, fiction, jessie perrin, split ends, old1, old2

Honey Heart

Fiction ∙ "My heart’s encrusted with little wax hexagons crawling with the larvae of 300 past crushes"

The Third Step in Every Minuet is Grief

Poetry ∙ "These are the embraces we must now put away: like regret-patterned china, / like a sense of order in a mass evacuation"

Sabbatical

Poetry ∙ "We craft lattice / walls and lace them to brittle hedges. I tell you / it’s to stall the new winds"

PoetryRae White19 May 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, tapir, rae white, milk teeth, sabbatical, old1, old2

Invasion • Borderlines

Poetry ∙ "I live on borderlines and peripheries / A descendent of transference / and the welcoming of difference / An omnidirectional white light”

"An apricot seems right?" An interview with Emily Crocker

Interview ∙ We talk to writer Emily Crocker about poetry & eating yoghurt in the wind.

InterviewEmily Crocker12 May 2018poetry, emily crocker, interview, subbed in, ibis house, girls and buoyant, old1, old2

poem i enjoy more than i do him • parched

2 Poems by Zhi Yi Cham ∙ "i may only have two mouths, one for eating & the other / for this precise amount of ambiguous”

Review: Christopher Pyne's Australian Military Sales Catalogue

Review ∙ "It’s Anzac Day tomorrow & Christopher Pyne, really really wants you to peep his brand spanking new catalogue of war machines"

Farmville • Avocados • Demi Lovato

Fiction ∙ "Sometimes when I’m at a crossroads, or in an awkward conversation, or sometimes even when I’m struggling to fall asleep at 3AM doing nothing of significance at all, I let Demi Lovato guide my life choices."

Good, clean feminine hygiene suite (feat. Rex Hunt)

4 Poems by Eloise Grills ∙ "Every plastic bag ever made still exists and so do you"

PoetryEloise Grills18 March 2018ibis house, subbed in, eloise grills, rex hunt, poetry, 240418, old1, old2

WHITENESS

Video/Poetry ∙ "Outsourcing ourselves into boxes / swiping away guilt" 🔥

Poetry, VideoJason Gray17 March 2018ibis house, subbed in, JASON GRAY, whiteness, 240418, old1, old2

FRESH COLD BERSERK

Poetry ∙ "I live Out West - in beauteous exile from suburban defilement - but I am summat-quite-thing fond of this Tiggr mess of a system. It glistens ridicurrous. Boing, boing, herp!"

$KIMMED MILK

Video/Poetry ∙ Through the exploration of an anti-narrative, Gillian Kayrooz's $KIMMED MILK offers a surreal expression of suburban identities and relationships.

Poetry, VideoGillian Kayrooz9 March 2018ibis house, subbed in, 240418, old1, old2