Delighted to have a poem in the March issue of Australian Book Review:

• ‘The Things the Mind Sees Happen [paywalled]’, Australian Book Review, March 2015

Hooray, a new poem in Cordite’s ‘Obsolete’ issue:

• ‘Curator‘, Cordite Poetry Review, 1 Feb 2015

This poem originally appeared in Islet, Winter 2010. Islet was a project of Island Magazine, which later ceased publishing it and did not retain the archives. I was sad that the poem, which is one of my personal favourites, was no longer available anywhere, so have republished it here.

Who made the bird drop

by Belinda Rule (c)

On the occasion of a funeral.

Who made the bird drop
into the valley like a stone,
scything the air in halves
sweet as a peach?
Who made the valley fall away
so sharp and sweet, the earth bitten open
avid and deep? Who fluffed the plush
canopy of the trees
and inked the black beneath?

Is this yours: distant thunder of laughter
from the lights behind the glass
as I stand here in the dark, apart?
What about this stone like a sickle,
small as a coin? This leaf like a tongue?
This roaring across the valley that could be
anything. Is that you?

How many ways can I compare Alice Munro to a ham sandwich? A guest blog post on a favourite short story for Laurie Steed’s The Gum Wall:

• Runaway by Alice Munro – by Belinda Rule, 24 July 2014

A blog post from me for Meanjin’s subscriber drive:

• Depressing The Almost Moon

I was a final round judge for the Meanjin Tournament of Books 2013, and here is my faintly ridiculous report. Will it be Winton or Lanagan?!

• Meanjin Tournament of Books Final Round: Breath vs Sea Hearts

Poem: ‘The deep water: On rape’ appears in Montreal International Poetry Prize Long List Anthology 2013.

Two poems appear in Eureka Street, 15 July 2013:

• ‘Mueller River estuary’
• ‘I am driving with my father’