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Leaves of Glass

In late 2007 I received a grant from Arts Victoria to write a series of poems based on correspondence between Australian poet Bernard O’Dowd and Walt Whitman. The results were published as Leaves of Glass by Sydney-based publisher Puncher and Wattmann in 2013.

  • days roaring

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    This poem was first published in my chapbook Final Friday (2010).

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  • Leaves of Nagasaki

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    You did interest us …

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  • Team America

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    Most of us make America mean the world, or sometimes we put ‘Australia’ in its place. B. O’D.

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  • Drones of Prole

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    the drones of prole patrol the moon that satellite of filth – their lanterns mark the greasy poles its dark side pepper (salt with futile cries & lunar dews & sad stories drones will tell of extra-terrestrial rents & arbitrage by mammon’s earthly (hags o’er those captains of industry whose gold we gleefully polish in…

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  • Poet Momentous!

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    i am not fazed by spurious notions of what is good or what is bad i just flip open that temporal wallet & spend (it’s like getting laid or tying one on & imagining X could well be my imaginary friend or else i simply steal someone else’s idea (it’s true i have no shame…

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  • Oz

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    A rewriting of Bernard O’Dowd’s poem ‘Australia’ (published in The Bulletin in 1900). ‘Oz’ was first published online in Jacket (2010) and anthologised in Thirty Australian Poets (UQP 2011).

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  • Red Dawn

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    ‘Dawnward’ B. O’Dowd (1906)

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