AustLit

'In a world of darkness and confusion, a family must learn to accept the harsh reality of being separated from a loved one. Sarina is an eight-year-old who has to learn how to be okay with the world falling apart around her, and how to live without her dad when he is stolen from her by jail.' (Publication summary)

'A woman returns home after years.

'Amongst the broken fences and shattered glass perhaps she'll find something she once lost.

'If she ever did lose it at all.' (Publication summary)

'they need my poetry 

to be academic, 

a puzzle that has to fit a piece, 

they ‘need’ me to etch for them 

to put them at peace. 

let me escape

from their criteria.

the non-perfected grammar that decides how it goes

the line breaks that give flow,

they want me to wear the lenses that fit on ‘their’ nose,

they tell me –

this isn’t academic poetry

1. i know,

it’s my poetry.' (Publication summary)

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'As a child, Luro became a soldier.

'And as a child, he committed atrocities defeating the pursuit of peace.

'Now, as a young man, Luro battles with his memories and attempts to redeem himself through Sen.

'Sen is an orphaned child wishing to find his sisters and simply attend school again.

'Together, the boys navigate their experiences and build a sense of hope.' (Publication summary)

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'I will not apologise for becoming a shapeshifter,

but I admit I wish you had said 

“You’ve grown” instead. 

from - Shapeshifters ' (Publication summary)

'Tomorrow, we are inspired by today

Today, we are sought by yesterday

Yesterday, we are had by tomorrow' (Publication summary)

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'A collection from me

for myself

and anyone else who can make sense of it;

an anthology of the raw, the vulnerable and the yearning.

This is the fourth of an infinity.' (Publication summary)

'If you think one of my poems is 

about the taste of a hot dog, you’re 

right, if you think one of them is 

about god and the devil switching

 places, you’re right, my literary 

world exists to understand you.' (Publication summary)

'Strangers wake up in a forest, disoriented and confused. Where are they? Why are they dressed like this? What’s happening?

'Question after question, and with a decreasing amount of answers. The strangers are surprised to see a man appear in different attire.

'The man holds a rifle of some sort, standing back, relaxed, almost bored. Before anyone can blink, a shot is fired into the night sky and everyone in their right mind bolts through the green with one realisation in their minds.

'They are being hunted.' (Publication summary)

'Everyone wants to be the best of themselves, but what we don't understand is that it's a process. Perfection can be achieved progressively through steps. The first step is realisation. Realisation of bad habits, realisation of negativity, realisation of one's self. Once you have realised all the negatives, then find solutions for them and start working on the improvements. With the mindset of 'everything is perfect', no improvements are going to happen. Keeping your eyes and ears open will help you not become ignorant but rather impactful for the world and overall, a better self; a step forward to perfection of oneself. Realise and raise awareness.' (Publication summary)

'The face of her moon

Were the happy lines of my poems

So, I gifted her all

My thoughts

My happiness

My love

My life'(Publication summary)

'It is simple. A boy named Minh. A powerful gift sizzling beneath. Some suffocating thoughts to throw up. A home to welcome.

'Imagine his palms grinding. It is self-inflicted, frustrating, never-ending, but if held by another, perhaps we live to witness wings soar.' (Publication summary)

'if i was made from adam’s rib, i wonder which bones of mine are his?

To all of the people stuck inside the ribcage of gendered oppression. 

This is a story of prophecy – both unspoken and shouted, until voices are thinned. 

From domesticated rib to knife, this is a story of becoming, and the gentle, humming promise of forgiveness.' (Publication summary)

'The mind is a gateway to the depths of creation

threads woven with fate, embroidered with destiny

conform to the cloth of spirit and soul,

if one is adorned by fleeting life

they shall echo through the halls of fractured time

eternity spent with the stars in hand

observing the world in its minute movements

playing god with the child of the universe.'(Publication summary)

'Magic has been around since the beginning of time.

'Aidan doesn't believe in magic, why would he? Nineteen and broke, he has more important things to worry about. But, when he arrives home one night to discover a witch hiding out in his apartment, his entire world gets flipped on its head. However, it doesn't take him long to realise that even with magic, the world isn't always magical.' (Publication summary)

'The world ended in 1964 and was reborn in 1974. Oscar lives in Terratoria, a city run by the NFT (New Fathers of Terratoria), who enforce the religion of Zyrelism and hunt down nonconformers. Living in a precarious balance between starvation, drugs, and death, Oscar manages to survive. Until the day he finds himself outside the NFT's protection, thrown into a wasteland destroyed by nuclear war, famines, fanatics and mercenaries. And then he begins to ask himself; is the watchful eye of Zyrel really as bad as he had always thought?'