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Maxine Clarke − Editorial

Poetry

Brought up by a small town – Jacky T

Tong Xing – Juliana Qian

Climbing – Benjamin Solah

What will be left of us? – Omar Musa

All creatures feel fear – Eleanor Jackson

Michael Hutchence – Sean M Whelan

Almost always – Dominica Nicholls

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016.

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