In Communion with Calliope is a weekly poetry column by Ivana Devcic. Oh, muse, settle down beside me while I recount: My mother, Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, of the harvest; the timeless martyr, closeted me, tried to bury my will with her changing moods, between her changing seasons. She …
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‘How to Talk About Movies’ is a fortnightly column by Michelle Wang.In this column, Michelle Wang watches all the latest hit films and breaks down how they can ease the social pressure when you’re in need of conversation. scenario one: cold one in hand, you’ve just finished discussing the host’s …
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Anonymous On the 23rd of May, 1999, the Sydney Morning Herald ran the headline ‘Baby safe, but blaze kills girls’. Hello, I’m Baby. On the 21st of May a fire began in my family home in the Blue Mountains. The house burned to the ground. Almost all our possessions were …
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In Communion with Calliope is a weekly poetry column by Ivana Devcic. Eyes as dark as a body of water that sits still, cradling a cemetery of dead branches in its depths. Further inside, a chthonic pyre gutters smoke, kindled with unwillingly-given libations. A body that recalls the curve of …
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‘Muckraking the Fourth Estate’ is a fortnightly media history column by Henry Chen. In this series, we investigate the legal and ethical consequences of historical media scandals, in an effort to better understand the unspoken rules governing the news we see today. Why Is Phone Hacking Wrong? Revisiting the Leveson Inquiry …
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Exquisite Consequences is a fortnightly game of literary tag, where the only rule is that each piece must begin with the last line of the work preceding it. wagadhaany (Black Folk Dancing)by Caoimhe H-L I will put my heart and time and breath In what the bumblebees have told me: There is …
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