Keeping The Verse Alive

The last load is done, but there’s still a truck to service. Scott Farquhar’s …

Heat, dust and rain on the horizon: Poeta de Cabra follows a weary wheat …

A thumping heart, trembling hands and a cheerful woman with a simple request. David …

Four new poems, music from Loren Ryan and Piper Butcher, a short story, Australian …

Phil’s last load of hay comes with a roadside stop he can’t afford. Vaughan …

Scott Farquhar looks back at the hard old days of outback trucking—and admits that …

After years of drought, the first rain feels like liquid gold to a farmer …

Two pub yarn-spinners set out to prove the brilliance of their long-suffering dogs in …

Tony Hammill on J.F. Archibald, six new poems, campfire cooking, Vaughan Baker’s Legend page, …

Australia’s political class is whisked from its comforts and sent scrambling through the scrub …

A prize-winning bush poet takes the stage at a country festival ball, where long …

A pricey Brahman bull, a mysterious potion and a farmyard cat make for a …

From the quiet of a truck cab, Scott Farquhar reflects on the black dog, …

Old Bluey has spent a lifetime in the shearing sheds—or so he tells a …

A routine trip to the milking shed becomes a bruising battle of wills between …

Tony Hammill’s Leichhardt story leads a week of six written poems, Myroodah Crossing, two …

Red dust, aching bones and the call of the Outback shape this reflective poem …

Geoff Bagman takes us from childhood dreams of space and the spell of Woodstock …

From drought and dusty farms to rain-filled waterways and wildflowers, David J Delaney celebrates …

A lonely gate, a pitch-black Top End night and fifty-three metres that feel much …