Respond to 2025: Elegy for a literary journal
It’s minor news, nothing deemed too relevant.
Two workers out of work, a loney welcome mat.
Subscribers suddenly without subscriptions.
Even the art house rags forgot to cover it.
A submission portal closed indefinitely.
Not Even Past
Grace Yee writes that Joss: A History (Giramondo, 2025) was written with ‘a strong conviction that the past persists in the present.’ Through a porous interplay of past and present, Joss expands what poetry is and can be: collage, palimpsest, polyphony.
Poisoned Crumbs: human rights and the LGBTIQ+ community after Bondi
Although prominent LGBTIQ+ organisations have endorsed the government’s plan to combat antisemitism and hate, the proposed new laws actually pose grave risks to rights and freedoms within the queer community.
Empty Words, Emptying Stages
By isolating one writer as a potential risk, the institution produces a broader chilling effect in which participation itself becomes precarious. Public debate shrinks not because anyone is ordered to be silent, but because speech itself has been recoded as the risk.