Bio:

Allan Lake, originally from Canada, has lived in Vancouver, Cape Breton, Ibiza, Tasmania, W.Australia and Melbourne. Lake has won Lost Tower Publications (UK) Comp, Melbourne Spoken Word Poetry Festival & publication in NewPhilosopher. Latest poetry chapbook (Ginninderra Press) ‘My Photos of Sicily’. Literary journals in 17 countries have now published his poems.

St Joni Works St Kilda

In an age of aging orphans, pandemic, wars and disillusion, I tune into news on beleaguered national broadcaster or what’s left of it after cruel cuts. Some mornings – clouds unleashing on several fronts – nothing specific goes wrong but you're poised for a poisoning. Might’ve stayed in saggy bed but that can do your head so I hazard fried egg, which has been known to fix everything. It fixes nothing. Slinking away from days of dirty dishes, I venture to Galleon for coffee, queue at oh-so-hip cafe where I forgot dogeared notebook…