• Francis William Lauderdale Adams

    A Fool. (Brisbane).

    He asked me of my friend – “a clever man; Such various talent, business, journalism; A pen that might some day have sent out ‘leaders’ From our greatest newspapers.” – “Yes, all this, All this,” I said. – “And yet he will not rise? He’ll stay a “comp.,” a printer…

  • Francis William Lauderdale Adams

    The Truth.

        By Francis William Lauderdale Adams      Come then, let us at least know what’s the truth.         Let us not blink our eyes and say      We did not understand; old age or youth         Benumbed our sense or stole…

  • Francis William Lauderdale Adams

    Australia

         I see a land of desperate droughts and floods:      I see a land where need keeps spreading round,      And all but giants perish in the stress:      I see a land where more, and more, and more      The demons, Earth and…

  • John Le Gay Brereton

    Spring

    Spring, and the wispy clouds that fade awayAnd draw the ecstatic soul in pain to aspireIn maddening flight through heaven’s thin flood of fireTo melt in rapture at the heart of day,The powers of the world that promise and betrayHave dragged me from you in their icy ireAnd set me…

  • John Tranter

    Encre lavande

    Tiens, la voilà : miss Béate, somnolantà l’ombre d’un parasol Campari. A côté d’elle,un bouquin – quelque chose de brillant : Callimaque,disons, imprimé dans une élégante typo vénitienne –lu à moitié (et il reste encoreles métaphores les plus osées !),un verre de gin, buée froidefleurissant sur le cristal. L’aircaresse sa…