In honour of NAIDOC week, QUT Indigenous Australian alumni Pauline Hannam writes about what her time at QUT meant to her. Pauline is a Durumbal, Birra Gubba, and Turrbal woman who graduated from QUT in 1997 with a Bachelor of…
Blue Bottle Journal is the 2020 creation of QUT Fine Arts graduate, Sean West. A poet himself, Sean set out to create an online poetry journal for emerging and established poets, give editorial feedback, and give poems homes. Glass Magazine…
By Mariam Soap and water won’t wash away your guilt Or the poisonous words you yelled All the walls around my heart were rebuilt And now you are expelled
By Christopher Ayling Make Connections All Welcome Don’t Worry Courage Human Experience Acceptance Talk Isn’t Cheap Silence Isn’t awkward Mad Chats; have some.
By AR I’ve eaten a lot of terrible food in my life. Brownies particularly seem to have a high incidence of terribleness. Balancing moisture in a baked good is hard, I understand. But I’m a sucker for them. An optimist. …
By Ellie Taggart Paper is priceless or at least that’s what we say, But when it’s green and processed through a machine it turns the other way, There is a price for paper and it is written on the back, Banks collect…
By Jazmine Gee Today I realised I have to let you go And for a moment My eyes stung from tears And my heart shrunk But today I remembered Who the hell I am So I watched you walk out the door …
By Lily Pacey Press your lips upon my cheek Can you feel the warmth? My burning blood contains bitter thorns That pierce my rose petal skin. Stare into my pale blue eyes Can you see the ocean? The waves crash…
By KH you ask why but honey you’re forgetting who we used to be in the years gone by the love that once was faded like the colour in your eyes you ask why but honey look into my eyes …
By Amanda Thomas sometimes I wish I could unsee the terrible crimes on our tvs unread the painful stories, peel each agony from my skin like so many newspaper sheets, switch the station at on-the-hours, slip on my rose-tinted glasses. …
