1. Designing on a cover for issue #37 of Cordite Poetry Review;
2. Mentoring a young writer for a CAL/Overland project to help give writers fom marginalised backgrounds an opportunity to be published in a reputable literary magazine;
3. Gearing up for a upcoming reading at Melbourne's Black Dot Gallery on January 26th, and another performance at Brunswick's Hare and Hyenas on January 30th (book here);
4. Finally assembling poems for a new poetry book: Nothing Here Needs Fixing;
5. Working on a non-fiction book The Hate Race;
6. Life;
7. Avoiding life.
& my not-so-secret plan for world literary domination
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
migrant workers smell
the liberal spokesperson
for citizenship
on public record
explaining patiently
that migrant workers smell
quite clearly
this country
has no hope
in hell
for citizenship
on public record
explaining patiently
that migrant workers smell
quite clearly
this country
has no hope
in hell
Sunday, January 8, 2012
ask yourself
what thing
wd make her walk of there
not a penny to her name
the only two things she owns
strapped tight in the stroller
& skipping beside her
instead of gossiping
on how she could
ask yourself
why she had to
This poem is an extract from my forthcoming poetry book 'Nothing Here Needs Fixing'
wd make her walk of there
not a penny to her name
the only two things she owns
strapped tight in the stroller
& skipping beside her
instead of gossiping
on how she could
ask yourself
why she had to
This poem is an extract from my forthcoming poetry book 'Nothing Here Needs Fixing'
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