Guangzhou

Poetry ∙ “Motherland stories abound / valorising the act of return, of / tasting char siu streetside & / recalling the score-toned tongues / of forefathers when asking / for the wi-fi password”

PoetryClaire Cao28 November 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, claire cao, Guangzhou, old1

Childhood; a history

Poetry ∙ “He collected the newspaper every day, even though he had not been trained to do so.”

PoetryVidya Sai Rajan27 November 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, vidya sai rajan, childhood, old1

Met Gala 2018

Poetry ∙ “An anti-imperialist pop star and a billionaire with plans to colonise space walk into a bar”

PoetryMira Schlosberg26 November 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, elon musk, grimes, met gala, met gala 2018, Mira Schlosberg, old1

Yes

Poetry ∙ “Like most stupid ideas it starts with wanting”

PoetryBridget Lutherborrow23 November 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, Yes, Yes vote, Bridget Lutherborrow, plebiscite, old1

the MFA circlejerk cycle

Poetry ∙ “lolololol only w/ loaded fries / probs eats cheezels out of / martini glasses, my smartarse answer; / we all were aching to be stylish, once.”

PoetryGemma Mahadeo12 October 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, tapir, rae white, milk teeth, sabbatical, old1

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2 Poems ∙ “(although it’s not too dissimilar) it’s that / you cannot see the morning in front of you / ’cause your eyes are still in webs / (surfeiting the dream)”

PoetryToby Fitch11 October 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, poems, Toby Fitch, Occupy the Sky, The Dream of the Internet, old1

Now that the men are dead

Poetry ∙ "Now that the men are dead we have stopped saying how much how much how much."

Accident/Injury Report • Baby Tooth Survey

2 Poems ∙ “someone strips dental consonants / from our first language. someone culls / our syntax to extinction.”

2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize finalists announced

We had an overwhelming response to the callout with more than 100 entries. We were staggered by the quality of the submissions received and after much deliberation managed to narrow the list of finalists down to 14.

Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, EssaySubbed In5 September 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, poems, experimental, chapbook prize, 2018, finalists, old1

City Exchange

Poetry ∙ "Twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five”

PoetryBrianna Bullen4 September 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, poems, Sheena Colquhoun, brianna bullen, city exchange, old1

Typeface Truths

Poetry ∙ Visual Art ∙ “The rain falls in ropes.”

Poetry, Visual ArtJordan Roux2 September 2018ibis house, subbed in, jordan roux, zine, typeface truths, poetry, visual art, art, blackout poem, old1

At the Opening • Pantoum for Roadkill

2 Poems ∙ "Spend my days peeling stickers from glass / My eyes green spies when rash / I am only on call for collision”

Goths Just Wanna Have Fun • All The Small Things

2 Poems ∙ "I’m excited for all the small things / like wearing a floral dress outside / in the summer for the first time / and I’m not going to let something small / like a penis stop me from being a woman”

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.”

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”

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”

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”