A rather amazing thing has happened and it is that The Things the Mind Sees Happen has been commended in the Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry published in 2019.

Many congrats to the winners, and particularly to my Slow Loris series-mate Alice Allan, also commended with her first full length book from Rabbit Poetry.

New poems out! Some new adventures in ekphrasis:

• ‘Ekphrasis: Bill Henson, Untitled 128/13, 1985/86, type C colour photograph’, Cordite Poetry Review 1 May 2020
  • This photo has been slightly recatalogued as ‘Untitled #13, 1985-86 / gallery catalogue reference #128‘ since I titled the poem. The whole exhibition (NSFW) it came from is amazing.
• ‘Ekphrasis: William Robinson, Passage of light from the sea at Numinbah, 2002’, Island Magazine 159 (2020)

These poems carry a content note for domestic violence. I deeply appreciate the response they have had on social media:

• ‘Birds‘, Australian Book Review 419 (March 2020)
• ‘Dad‘, Meanjin 78:4 (Summer 2019) [paywalled]

Plus: the wonderful Verity La has released another ebook of favourite pieces of the last 10 years, in which I’m honoured my ‘Damboon’, a long short story about lesbians on a roadtrip in country Vic, appears – for sale here:

• Michele Seminara, Robbie Coburn and Laura McPhee-Browne Eds, Embody: Verity La Anthology II, 2020