poetry
Happy Birthday Comics
April 6, 2019 | troublemagTrouble turned 15 in April 2019, and for our birthday issue we wanted to thank by way of featuring some of our past comic contributors, who have been a highlight for us throughout the years. Many of these beautiful and … Read More
Deep Trouble #7: Manisha Anjali
November 7, 2018 | troublemagwith Dr Mark Halloran Or listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher
Indian-Fijian poet Manisha Anjali was born in Suva, the capital of Fiji, and we begin by discussing the importance of familial and national history in the development … Read More
BED, TRAIN, DESK, TRAIN, BED
August 1, 2016 | troublemagMONDAY It never quite makes sense. The act of turning up at a desk five days a week, followed by the arrival of money in my bank account seems strangely disconnected. As with birth and death – how … Read More
Occasionally
May 2, 2016 | troublemag
I just want to be with someone new
in a train
on a wet night
where the inside light reflects me
in a stranger’s eyes from across the isle
whose waiting aches back
from nowhere to … Read More
Teaspoon Full
April 2, 2016 | troublemag
It’s been passed down
not like a WW2 sibling’s shrunken jumper
to make ends meet in this then innocent country
but a curio of words that squeezed
between the searchlights under the wires
holding its breath … Read More
Stralian Stories: Billy Marshall-Stoneking
November 2, 2013 | troublemag
by Neil Boyack
Singing the Snake & Cultural Competence
Rarely is a collection of poems and vignettes so complete in its form with regards to cultural breadth, style, content, political shade and vigour. When I first read Singing … Read More
Stralian Stories – Coral Hull: the patron saint of Australian poetry
October 3, 2013 | troublemag
by Neil Boyack
When you read Coral Hull’s work you get a sense fairly quickly that she stands for things, and that she has experienced life outside the mainstream in situations that beckon risk. These events have … Read More