Poetry

Poetry and Writing

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Amnesia Findings, UQP, 2019

The Last Postman, poetry chapbook

ABR’s States of Poetry QLD Series 2

Memory Curls

If I were made of Copper

‘When Does the Strange Lady Leave?’

Code Cracker

Glance Trader Game

Centrelink Suite

Notes I Didn’t Give to the Western Wall, Peril Magazine

Great Fish, Stilts Journal

My Nana is a Mermaid, Verity La Journal

When Dreams Turn Archeological, in StylusLit Journal

Poems in foam:e Nana’s Hair and Grandad’s Passover

Spot the Difference Had Gadya, in Not Very Quiet Journal

Separation Ceremony, in Meanjin

Serpent, in Verity La Journal

To sink into a decade, Cordite Poetry Review

water ripples with a circular poem that reads 'I sew ripples, weave waves, collect seaweed as though reading tea-leaf-tidings in the middle of the forest on the edge of the lake'

Tea-leaf Tidings

Recipe #89, in Underground Writers Zine

the day the letterbox ate the painted rose on my mother’s antique watch, in These Frozen Moments Installation

The Book of Jewish Blessings, in Peril Journal

Menu Alterations, in Underground Writers Zine

How to Knit a Human Poetry Suite, in Verity La Journal

All He Wants is a Burger, in Tundish Review

On Photographing Poets, in Small Packages

Letter 1: To the Boy with Blue Hair in Carriage 2, Poetry d’Amour 2016 Anthology poem

An Early Dinner, in ThunkBook Journal

The Gravity of Bones, in Rabbit Journal

Crunchy, No Bruises in Rabbit Journal

Release, in One Page Brisbane

Word OCD, in Tincture Journal

The Forest, in Our Home is Dirt by Sea Anthology

Grandma, SpeedPoets Zine

Tonight I Cannot Sleep, SpeedPoets Zine

a photograph of rocky textures and the words 'for one stinging second words illuminate; instructions on becoming the sea'

a map of rock textures and the words 'tracing the lines back to my palm'

green light on an old film negative and the words 'green flare an sos from the past'

a person with a clay head, holding a mirror with the figure reflected infinitely and the words ' and all I see reflected is this image'

A photo of a ghost gum with the words 'ghost gum in our backyard holding up the sky with silver limbs'

an out of focus photograph of a pink sunset on the river with the clear words 'sunset in the river flowing from sky's reflection'

Haiku, Runner Up Vladimir Devide Haiku Award

River Food, in Cuttlefish Journal

Wilt, 2014-15, in Short and Twisted

Planting the Mango Seed

Icy Fruit, Published in Our Home is Dirt by Sea Anthology (Walker Books) 2016

a digital collage of a market scene and the words

Brisbane West End Markets

a digital collage of an owl in a tree with the moon

Sky Feast

a photograph of feet in dirt with the words 'debris falls to earth each piece a song by my feet'

Earth Music, (2015 Bleach Festival, Poetry Gallery)

a girl peering through the curtains in an underexposed, dusty and scratched photo with the words 'self-portrait on salvaged film I float through magic dust and cosmos

Ketubah, in Cordite, 2015

a concrete poem with the vertical words 'follow' falling off a cliff after the vertical word 'leader' into a pile of letters at the bottom of the page

Originality Poetry Prize Winner, 2014 Deakin University

On Board Commissar Rommel, in Foam:e 13, 2016

a photograph of a yellow koala street sign warning

Warning Signs, (2015 Poetry Gallery, Bleach Festival)

Villanelle, Published in Australian Poetry Journal (5.2) 2015

Dream Diary: Wedneday and Thursday Night, in Cordite 2014

a double exposed photograph of the top of a boy's head in the clouds and a circular poem with the words 'he ate up the sky and the sky ate him up'

He Ate Up the Sky