Pleased to have a new poem ‘Regarding your workplace matter‘, out in Literary Matters 17.2, Winter/Spring 2025.

One of a number of recent poems about office work. Also about geese.

Lovely to have a poem in newish Irish/Australian journal, The Marrow, from known and less known faces from the scene.

Read it at: Ways to fail to escape.

Have been fighting with this poem for maybe ten years, never give up, never delete anything kidzzzz <3

New poetry in the delightful Going Down Swinging, dedicated to all those work, or do or do not yearn to return to working, in an office:

Continue reading “New poems in print: Memorandum and Against Activity”

I’ve been a volunteer fiction reader for Overland for nearly three years now, which involves being one of the first few eyes on a submission, and mostly agreeing but sometimes duking it out with other readers over whether it should go up to the ‘real’ editor. Had an absolute blast being let loose as member of the collective of readers who all got to be ‘real’ editors for a minute and produce our own edition: Overland 240.5: Special Digital Fiction Edition. We picked seven stories, varied in tone and subject, all really worth a read.

Super excited to announce my first full-length collection of poems, Hyperbole, will be out later in 2021 with Recent Work Press, Canberra!

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