I have two poems in the wonderfully long-running Australian web journal foam:e this month:

• Rooms
• Pants! Notes towards a musical

This is nearly the end of my oeuvre of poems about my estranged mother. I’ve never spoken publicly about them aside from the bare announcement of publication. Realising I’d almost published them all now – and I don’t think I’ll write any more – I thought I’d write this post.

This post discusses childhood sexual assault non-explicitly.

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Hey-hey, a story about some sad/mad lesbians on a roadtrip in country Victoria, by me – available for free online in Verity La:

• ‘Damboon’, Verity La, 7 March 2017

This is the first of many sad/mad lesbian stories. I am really over coming out stories. I am all about the ‘all girlfriends break up with me and lesbian housemates TOO INTENSE ABOUT RECYCLING’ stories.

Verity La is an awesome long-running Australian web journal that is generally way cooler and edgier than I am. They’re running Australian women’s writing all this week in honour of International Women’s Day, huzzah.