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.
Poem published on the AGONY Substack
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Poetry reading II at Ern Malley (est. 1943)
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.)
Poetry reading at Ern Malley (est. 1943)
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.)
Poem published in AGONY Magazine
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.
2 poems published in AGONY Magazine
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.
Review published in Plumwood Mountain: Ed Wright’s ‘Gas Deities’
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.
Throwback: Light & Glorie
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.
- Light & Glorie (Pantaenus Press, 2012)
- ABC Radio National ‘The Spirit of Things’ podcast, with images of the windows
- Robert Rath’s photos of the reading
Poem featured in Raining Poetry in Adelaide
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.
Poem published in The Saltbush Review
My poem ‘Dance of the Last Rhino’ has been published in Issue 2 of The Saltbush Review, an important new journal which focuses on connecting the South Australian literary community with readers and writing spaces across the world. Many thanks to Lyn, Gemma, Melanie, Clare, and Theodora of the editorial team.
Poem published in Social Alternatives
My poem ‘Kinesis, Kenosis’ has been published in Social Alternatives’ ‘Poetry to the Rescue: Special Poetry Issue’, volume 40.3. Many thanks to the Poetry Editor, Aidan Coleman.
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