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Tag: terminals

  • ‘Nagasaki crows’ redux

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    6 min read

    On 9 August 1945, US forces detonated a second atomic bomb over Japan, destroying the city of Nagasaki, killing around eighty-thousand people and injuring many more. The first bomb, which had levelled Hiroshima three days earlier, was not sufficient to prompt Japan to capitulate. Six days after the destruction of Nagasaki, however, and following Russia’s…

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  • TERMINAL 1: AER LINGUS

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    2 min read

    “A dictionary of shelter” —John Tranter, “Lufthansa Flying over violet-crumble seas, eyes bulging as the rockrushes by (a sense of stained-glass futures, a fatal dioramaI’m descending through time with an airman’s precision—the shroud of a cloud’s lop-sided laptop strata slips a little as I glimpse the patchwork, or a field, or a metaphor (andbank (becoming…

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  • Best of Australian Poems 2024

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    3 min read

    My poem “Terminal 1: Aer Lingus” has been selected to appear in the just-published Best of Australian Poems 2024 (Puncher and Wattmann/Australian Poetry), edited by Kate Lilley and Shastra Deo.

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