In the lead up to the winners reveal for our 2023 writing contest, Tertangala is showing some of the work submitted by UOW talent.
Category: Poetry
David Allen – My Council – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
The love of blue and redness, No green nor minor greys. Of ordered seats and houses Is in your veins ablaze, Strong love of
Abby Dickerson – A Poem for Ava – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
From the moment our eyes first met, Until your last dying breath, Never could I have foretold, What warmth you brought from the cold.
Anna Krywyj – on tutankhamun – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
unfurling the plastered papyrus of a dead little girl guffawing; what novelty! gripping her dislodged jaw gnashing her teeth together – look at
Cameron Ling – Despedida – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
at the bottom of stairs I am waiting
Linda Godfrey – Poems from a Notebook – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
ask people we know is the first thing I wrote, then lists: yours and owls soda ice cube tray bread milk fruit Hamish in
Poetry: Psychopomp
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
The last twisted soul that pranced behind it.