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• ‘Chick Lit’ by Vivian Yang

  I am a chick
  You don’t call it lit
  But I read it.
  I am the protagonist
  The girl who loses part of herself ...

   
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• ‘Night Frequencies’ by David McCooey

  The lights in the street
  are gold or white or blue.

  The primitive grass says nothing
  of what’s to come. ...

   
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• ‘I will see you there when I go’ by Andrew Bromage

  Outside the Library,
  the pigeons do to Redmond Barry
  what Ned Kelly never could.

   
• ‘everything we ever changed our minds about’ by Sean M Whelan

  you told me
  you loved it when the trees changed their minds
  and covered the ground
  with a million veined post-it notes ...

   

About Angela Smith

Angela is a Melbourne poet and lawyer. Her poetry has been published widely in poetry journals and literary magazines including Meanjin, Quadrant, Arena Magazine, Paper Wasp, Poetrix and Forum Magazine. Her work also appears in the anthology Adelaide Tales (Wakefield Press, 2008) and in Melbourne Reflections (Poetica Christi Press, 2009). Angela has been the recipient of two Young Adult Fiction residencies at Varuna – The Writers’ House, N.S.W.