Poetry

Love Is A Dagger – In which we ponder whether for Shakespeare love is mere words, or an altogether more penetrating object.

C S Hughes August 5, 2023

“Love is a fire, and it’s ragin’ out of control” Genya Ravan moans through a scene in the 1979 Walter...

“From The Ashes” Poetry for Bushfire Relief: Call for Submissions

Olga Hughes January 23, 2020

Call for submissions. The 2019-2020 bushfire season has seen unprecedented destruction, as well as an unprecedented national and worldwide response....

For Halloween We Present ‘A Prisoner of This Tower’

Olga Hughes October 31, 2019

For this year’s Halloween poem I have chosen C.S. Hughes’ A Prisoner of This Tower, for the eerie connection between...

Starling, Fred, Mousie and Me

C S Hughes October 31, 2017

Starling, Fred, Mousie and Me by CS Hughes...

Richard III before Bosworth Field by James Walton

Olga Hughes May 30, 2017

  I was walking on a local beach known for its dinosaur fossils, playing with pebbles and sea weed, thinking...

A Diary of Anne Boleyn A Poem by James Walton

C S Hughes November 12, 2016

A Diary of Anne Boleyn My ladies weep in the vernacular tongue kneeling in the French style I caught the...

Gertrude Stein’s Cat

Olga Hughes August 8, 2016

For International Cat Day, here is C.S. Hughes’s Gertrude Stein’s Cat. Save Save Save Save...

The Untold Tale Of Tom and Zellandine

Olga Hughes February 29, 2016

For Leap Day we present the enchanting tale, The Untold Tale Of Tom and Zellandine, by our very own C.S....

For Halloween We Present The Gothic Horror Lord Bonyfoote’s Dance

Olga Hughes October 31, 2015

For Halloween we present for your terror, delectation and amusement, Lord Bonyfoote’s Dance, a poem in the classic Gothic tradition...

The Unexpected Pleasures Of A Guide To Sydney Rivers

C S Hughes September 22, 2015

Perhaps the most familiar line from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In The Willows is also the most misquoted, the misquote...