Australian poet & editor | Author of CARTE BLANCHE
My poem ‘Public Savant’, part of a longer poem of the same name, which was written at a rate of 1-new-line-per-day during 2018, appears HERE on the new AGONY Substack. Print editions of AGONY Magazine Vol. 2, where the poem first appeared, are available HERE from the magazine’s website. Many thanks to Sean Haylock, Editor in Chief, and my fellow members of the editorial team.
My poem ‘Phalaris / Perennial’ has been published in Edition 10.2 of Jacaranda Journal. Copies are available HERE from the journal’s website. Many thanks to Olivia De Zilva, Editor in Chief. It’s a pleasure to be published alongside fellow South Australians JV Birch, Jelena Dinic, Matt Hooten, Gemma Parker, Caroline Reid, and Dom Symes, and two of my favourite Australian poets, Stuart Barnes, and Felicity Plunkett.
My poem ‘Ventanita’, which was published in August 2023 in Volume 1 of AGONY Magazine, appears on the new AGONY Substack. Print editions are available HERE from the magazine’s website.
Adelaide’s newest reading series, The Ern Malley Readings, has continued throughout February at Ern Malley (est. 1943), with readings by Ken Bolton, Cath Kenneally, Anna Goldsworthy, Peter Goldsworthy, Sean Haylock, and Stan Mahoney. This week we’ll be rounding out the month with readings by Jill Jones, Basty H, and me. All are welcome! Details: Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 7 p.m. for a 7:30 start, at Ern Malley, 137 Magill Road, Stepney. (Photo courtesy Ern Malley.)
Adelaide’s newest reading series, The Ern Malley Readings, kicked off this week at Ern Malley (est. 1943), with readings by Ursula de Leeuw, Ken Bolton, and Stan Mahoney. In the week ahead, I’ll be appearing at the readings with Kathryn Hummel and Jelena Dinic. Details: Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 7 p.m. for a 7:30 start, at Ern Malley, 137 Magill Road, Stepney. (Photo courtesy Ern Malley.)
My poem ‘Public Savant’, part of a longer poem of the same name, which was written at a rate of 1-new-line-per-day during 2018, has been published in Volume 2 of AGONY Magazine. Copies are available HERE from the magazine’s website. Many thanks to Sean Haylock, Editor in Chief, and my fellow members of the editorial team.
My poems ‘Magnolia Grandiflora’ and ‘Ventanita’ have been published in Volume 1 of AGONY Magazine, a new Adelaide-based publication. Copies are available HERE from the magazine’s website, and you can find Board members Jack Blanch and James Donald Forbes McCann introducing the magazine HERE on YouTube. Many thanks to Sean Haylock and the editorial team.
Many thanks to Jake Goetz, Reviews Editor for Plumwood Mountain, for the opportunity to review Ed Wright’s latest book of poems, Gas Deities (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020). Click here for the REVIEW.
It’s 10 years this week since the culmination of a project Aidan Coleman and I ran in 2012, in which we invited South Australian poets to write about the renowned stained glass in St. Bart’s Church, Norwood, one of Adelaide’s oldest churches. Many of South Australia’s – and Australia’s – finest poets took up the challenge, 30 of them in all. The poems were showcased at a poetry reading at St. Bart’s in early November of that year, at which the poets read alongside the windows. A selection of the poems was anthologised in Light & Glorie (Pantaenus Press, 2012). The poems ranged from devotional to skeptical, from detailed to digressive, from the personal and aesthetic, to the historical. In the 10 years since, the newspaper articles about the project and two of the radio interviews have disappeared from their respective websites. But, happily, the Light & Glorie anthology is still available from Amazon, ABC Radio National’s hour-long podcast about the project is still online, and so are Robert Rath’s excellent photos of the poetry reading. Links below.
One of my poems is among 20 that have been tagged on the footpaths of Adelaide’s CBD, using invisible paint that appears only when it rains. My poem (‘To remember that a tree / is aired in sky as much / as it’s grounded in earth.’) can be found near the corner of Union and Grenfell Streets, opposite the Crown & Anchor Hotel. Many thanks to the Raining Poetry in Adelaide team, the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, and the City of Adelaide.
Thom Sullivan 