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."

A Name for a Tapir

Poetry ∙ "the tapir went to town / hard hooves and proboscis raised / to reveal a herbivore’s broad teeth / with which it took an arm clean off"

PoetryHollen Pockets3 April 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, hollen pockets, tapir, a name for a tapir, 240418, old1

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

Galaxies of Road • No Goldblum, No Matter • Supposition

3 Poems by Omar Sakr ∙ "I want you to know I have seen a thousand dinosaurs / on a barn floor, most of them an outrageous yellow / while some were black and all of course newborn / shifting from thick talon to thick talon chittering

PoetryOmar Sakr6 March 2018ibis house, subbed in, omar sakr, jeff goldblum, dinosaurs, 240418, old1, old2

LOVECRY/BATTLESONG

Poetry ∙ "To the crips I love and who love me in return / from a distance or intimately close during / long nights where neither of us can sleep for pain / waiting for morning and the pain that morning brings / I am here for you"

PoetryRobin M Eames1 March 2018ibis house, subbed in, robin m. eames, Disability Day of Mourning, 240418, old1, old2

The poetics of looking, truth in film and Heath Ledger as the heterogenous invisible heart-throb boy

Non-fiction ∙ "There is a boy I’m thinking of, who lived down the street from you, and it was very possible sometimes that you only made him live there because you imagined it."