As promised, this is Part 2 of my offering of South Australian poets who (I think) should be known, or better known, interstate. For each poet, I’ve included details for a couple of recent publications, as well as references to poems that can be found online or in readily available anthologies.

Part 3 will follow soon.

Kathryn Hummel, poet and ethnographer

‘Each poem lingers in the liminal spaces between the erotic and the exotic, the eclectic and the electric, the enigmatic and the energetic. These poems are from here, but they tirelessly interrogate the location of here…’ – Carl Leggo, Professor at the University of British Columbia, on Poems from Here

• Poems from Here (Walleah Press, 2014) review
• The Bangalore Set (chapbook) (Kena Artists’ Initiative, 2014) review
• South Australian Writers Centre’s Digital Writer in Residence, July–September 2016
• Poem: ‘What Not to Include’ (Cordite Poetry Review)
• Poem: ‘He’s Got Your Number, All Right’ (Verity La)
• Poem: ‘Revelair’ (The Red Room Company – audio)

Rachael Mead, poet

‘Empathetic without sentimentality, Mead has found all the material she needs for poetry in her own vicinity: the mutability of life, the histories that have made us, and the responsibility we bear for what we’ve done to our places.’ – Jill Jones on The Sixth Creek

• The Sixth Creek (Picaro Press, 2013) (Poetica podcast – audio)
• The Quiet Blue World (chapbook) (Garron Publishing, 2015)
• Shortlisted for the 2016 Dorothy Hewitt Award (winner to be announced at Perth Writers Festival in February 2017)
• Poem: ‘What Will We Inherit?’ (Cordite Poetry Review)
• Poem: ‘Deviation Road’ (Writ Poetry Review)
• Poem: ‘The Wild Grammar of Leeches’ (The Best Australian Poems 2015)

David Mortimer, poet

‘Reading Magic Logic is to listen to a musical mind at work. It is a journey of cadences, the everyday and the metaphysical, smaller soundscapes as valued as larger ones.’ – Patricia Sykes on Magic Logic

• Magic Logic (Puncher & Wattmann, 2012) review / review
• Poem: ‘Holiday’ (Friendly Street Poets)
• Poem: ‘Pigeons Against an Oil-Grey Sky’ (Malleable Jangle)
• Poem: ‘Not-being and Somethingness’ (Puncher & Wattmann)
• Poem: ‘Cloud Philosophy’ (The Best Australian Poems 2012)
• Poem: ‘Adelaide Suburban’ (Puncher & Wattmann’s Contemporary Australian Poetry anthology)