HARD TIMES ARE OVER by YOKO ONO Poem by Stephen Andrew
Stephen Andrew Yarra River, Warrandyte, 8 December 1980Word comes from a car radio in the riverside car park. Calling out, surreal, to nobody, “John Lennon has been shot”.
HARVEST LOVE by TASH SULTANA Gig review by Sean Mortell
After calling out to the members of the audience who had ever experienced mental turmoil, or just emotional struggles as a whole, the rollicking beauty of steady electric guitar along with the angelic high pitched crooning of Sultana, the flash light on thousands of phones swayed in time to a truly memorable cacophony of sound.
HARVEST MOON by NEIL YOUNG Advice by Sophia Irvine
Harvest Moon is almost poetic and otherworldly in its lyrics and melody. But it got me thinking about that guy who dumped me when I was 14.
Have I Told You Lately by Van Morrison. Story by Lucia Nardo
Lucia Nardo Hospital, Melbourne, 2015There’s only one way to take a diagnosis of cancer in our family. You get on with it. But the day of Martin's surgery, I’m not getting on with it very well.
HE ALOHA MELE by IVA KINIMAKA. Story by N.T. McQueen
The girls signed up for hula lessons, learning the sacred moves of the kanaka. Moves of a gentle, spiritual sway where the hands told the story, sweeping and waving to talk story with each movement signifying a deeper resonance with the past and the people.
HE DOESN’T KNOW WHY by FLEET FOXES Story by Maria Majsa
Maria Majsa Auckland, New Zealand, early 1970s Western Springs College, Auckland 2012Inheritances run in families like a seam through generations; swallowed hopes and ambitions which sometimes find their full expression decades later.