Category: Poetry

  • Garden of Evil – Paige Jenkins

    Garden of Evil – Paige Jenkins

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    In the lead up to the winners reveal for our 2023 writing contest, Tertangala is showing some of the work submitted by UOW talent. Our first is a poem from Paige Jenkins. Enjoy!  I tiptoe down the green sea od fading blues to yellow as the darkness gives way to the eerie discolouration on an…

  • David Allen – My Council – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

    David Allen – My Council – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

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    The love of blue and redness, No green nor minor greys. Of ordered seats and houses Is in your veins ablaze, Strong love of clear division And policy resolute I know but cannot share it, My love is for dispute   I love a hung parliament, A land of sweeping range, Of ragged politicians, Debate…

  • Abby Dickerson – A Poem for Ava – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

    Abby Dickerson – A Poem for Ava – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

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    From the moment our eyes first met, Until your last dying breath, Never could I have foretold, What warmth you brought from the cold.   It was only upon finding you, Could I discover a part of me, And with the light, you shined through, I found the courage I was blind to see.  …

  • Anna Krywyj – on tutankhamun – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

    Anna Krywyj – on tutankhamun – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

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    unfurling the plastered papyrus of a dead little girl guffawing; what novelty!   gripping her dislodged jaw gnashing her teeth together – look at her laugh   the scarab beetle ‘round her neck glistens then gone; plucked with manicured fingers threaded through a silver chain and placed atop the corseted chest of shrieking opera-goer  …

  • Cameron Ling – Despedida – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

    Cameron Ling – Despedida – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

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    at the bottom of stairs                       I am waiting                       big stupid grin splayed across face it’s                  your lunch break                  (or the end of an early day)  …

  • Linda Godfrey – Poems from a Notebook – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

    Linda Godfrey – Poems from a Notebook – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

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    ask people we know is the first thing I wrote, then lists: yours and owls soda ice cube tray bread milk fruit Hamish in Queensland. Turn the page for 13/8 Habossem St; Egem Pension, Kemalyeri, Cannakkale; the Fedriades Hotel in Delphi – don’t make me fly home; the vistas to the Gulf of Corinth from…

  • Poetry: Psychopomp

    Poetry: Psychopomp

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    Lijiang marketplace. The moon gleamed like an eye. I, a man, With no teeth, and no eyes, Bit the head of a child, And leer from the rooftops as the streets are taken By the procession of a one hundred demons, Each writhing and screaming and more bloated Each one more foul an abomination than…