26.0: Innocence

Margie Cronin: INNOCENCETom Clark: Canada, Late September | That Old Light on the Hill | Why be a delegate?
Tim Heffernan: Radiant (1959)
Tiggy Johnson: Discovery | Skydiving With Elephants | daddy’s girl
Stuart Cooke: Edge Music
Steve Halle: Invitation to the Cult of Musth | Steve Halle: Polish stripper in my lifeboat
Sandra Long: You With the Leopard Spots | Eeyi Eeyi Duck (quack quack-quack)
Peter O’Mara: untitled I | untitled II
Paolo Bertolani: Do you want a cup of coffee? It won’t be a minute
Paul Mitchell: A Series of Good Investments | Dear Dad
Nathan Shepherdson: thoughts that wouldn’t choose to think of themselves again
Michael Farrell: the j letter | boyhood
Lorin Ford: Variations on six innocent lines
Lee Kofman: Sylvia in the Psych Ward |
In a shower | Every Woman Needs a Jewish Husband |
Suggestions for a girls’ school curriculum
Kate Schapira: The Saint of Magnets
John West: Dreaming of Dead Horses
John Leonard: Among the Poets
Joel Magarey: The Australian Males Rules American Football Dream | Infidelity
John West: Dreaming of Dead Horses
Jennifer Compton: The Woman of Rome
Jane Williams: In the wee hours
Eric Dando: all the cats and blind puppies | micro
Ellie Francis-Brophy: Barking Mad
Ed Wright: Madonna and Child | “a shooting star” | Wanton Boys
Dianne Cikusa: Caracol (Snail)
Derek Motion: life in the miniature steam-train village | feelings | one
Carolyn van Langenberg: painting rain
Carol Jenkins: Test Walk | Trade-ins: Small Arms
Cam Lowe: The Sum
Brentley Frazer: Listerine on skinned knees
Anthony Jones: What I Did On My Holidays
Angela Costi: Shrapnel
Allan Peterson: The Rabbit Soprano | HomologyAdam Aitken: Innocence
Released: July 2007
Poetry Editor: MTC Cronin
Cover Image: Kent MacCarter
Contributor Notes