Quadrant

By Matt Dennison & Marie Craven

Wherever you are,
in whatever room
of whatever house
of whatever’s left
of whatever life
you may possess,
imagine that room,
that house, that life
in the middle of a ship
in the middle of an ocean
in the middle of a night
headed, finally, there.

Matt Dennison is the author of Kind Surgery from Urtica Press (Fr.) and Waiting for Better from Main Street Rag Press. His work has appeared in Verse Daily, Rattle, Bayou Magazine, Redivider, Natural Bridge, The Spoon River Poetry Review and Cider Press Review, among others. He has also made short films with Michael Dickes, Swoon, MarieCraven and Jutta Pryor.

Marie Craven spent her early years on a cattle station in outback NSW before her family relocated to Melbourne in the late 1960s. She was an actor in theatre in her teens and early twenties, becoming involved in film-making in the mid-1980s. During the early 1990s, she moved from experimental into narrative film-making and her films over the next decade and into the 2000s were successful on the international film festival circuit, garnering many awards and screening at over 100 events.