Renga

A few months ago I was asked to be part of a renga with Keiji Minato (a Kyoto-based poet whom I had the great pleasure to meet last year) and another Japanese poet named Hiroshi. We wrote ku in turns,…

Read it Renga

Cordite #19

Well they said we’d never make it. This, the nineteenth issue of Cordite Poetry Review, has turned out to be our biggest and most varied so far for 2004. With nineteen poems (appropriately enough) plus a collection of Slivers by…

Read it Cordite #19

Post-holocaust tram

I wrote this poem after visiting Hiroshima for the first time in 2004. It was later published in my first full-length poetry collection, We Will Disappear (2007). While we remember August 6 as the day Hiroshima died, and August 9 as the day the same fate was handed to Nagasaki, I personally was not aware of August 5 as the anniversary of the Cowra breakout, an event that has left its mark on both Australia and Japan.
Read it Post-holocaust tram

nthposition update!

Things move quickly in the world of publishing, let me tell you. Not one week since my poems “kyoto crow(s)” and “tonkatsu zen” appeared in nthposition but blow me down, they’ve decided to include “kyoto crow(s)” in an anthology, called…

Read it nthposition update!