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We Will Disappear

My debut collection of poetry was published in 2007 by papertiger media. Read more about the book in my portfolio.

  • (On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce

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    This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.

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  • Karin Revisited

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    This poem was originally written and performed for the Red Room Company’s Poetry Picture Show project in 2006.

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  • Abstract moon

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    This poem was written as part of a dialogue series with Japanese poet Hiroshi Sasaki (Keiji Minato, translator). It appeared for the first time in print in Mirage #4/Period[ical] (USA, 2006). It was later published in my collection We Will Disappear (2007), and anthologised in Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher and Wattmann: Sydney, 2016). ‘Abstract Moon’…

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  • We are living

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    This poem was written in 2005 as part of a dialogue series with Japanese poet Hiroshi Sasaki (Keiji Minato, translator). It was later published in my collection We Will Disappear. Läs på svenska.

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  • “While your children are still small”

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    I’m dreaming of a nineteenth century Finland Where we skied to school & my lunch was free Prior to my birth even the birds did know it I was smaller than a grain of sand inside you Mother said I wasn’t even thought of then yet She could feel me stirring inside a tiny bell…

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  • Let’s fight the pop-ups!

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    meddling kids with their internet pop-ups planting jitches in those unexpected drum /fill up my crevice moments inevitably doomed to fall between their terminals of thunder & the beginnings of the jaundice / plague its down on hands & hips & back to feeling aghast my baby lives on a pop-up page we shudder tho…

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  • A veteran of the club scene

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    panic on the streets of south yarra geez they shut us down when im peaking its a ripoff shits been cut with something maybe brain juices? not mine got the tipoff said get rid of em ages ago i loved to dance though dont seem to have the energy anymore im still here propping up…

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