'When we opened this issue, we decided on a ‘No Theme’ provocation so that you could let your imaginations run wild to herald the new decade. And you did, through the submission period, producing poems on a range of issues and topics.
'Now in Australia, as we have worked towards publication, we have been overtaken by drought, fire and smoke, flood and rain and hail, pestilence (locusts) and, with the rest of the world, plague. The Full Monty, so to speak.' (Sandra Renew and Moya Pacey : Introduction)
Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Undertow by Sara Backer
Before we grow old by Clara Burghelea
Thoughts engendered by too much time in the public service by Mary Cresswell
‘femininity’ by aischa daughtery
Photographic Memory by Diana Donovan
Sonnet by Dagne Forrest
Christmas in November 2019 by Sophie Furlong Tighe
Ode to Sybil Ludington by Taylor Garrison
On H Street Late Monday Evening by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
writing home by Judit Katalin Hollos
First Day Out at the Supermarket by Wes Lee
Are You Afraid to Write 2020 by Christina McDermott
Fleeing 2019 in a 2004 Ford by Leah Mueller
The Poet Cleans Her Teeth by Morgan Plessner
The Former See-Saw by Jessy Randall
the last day of january by Sarah Bex Rice
Brujería by Ann Schlotzhauer
The Bus by Heidi Slettedahl
Picking Lemons by Madelaine Smith
The Wedding Suit by Gerry Stewart
Andrea Yate’s Children Take a Bath by Tina Vorreyer
An Ode to the Things I Did Not Know H.D. Weidemann
Readings of Emily Dickinson As I Pack My Bags for Leaving by Nicole Yurcaba
Burqa by Bänoo Zan
