Category: Poetry and Writing
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‘Word OCD’ Poem Published in Tincture Journal
My poem ‘Word OCD’ was selected for publication in Tincture Journal, Issue 13, Autumn 2016. Word OCD She collects words in snap-lock packets so they won’t go stale. Each word in its individual packet, each word precious. She runs her fingers over the plastic and stops; one of the snap-lock seals is half-open. So she…
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‘Release’ Poem published in ‘One Page Brisbane’
My poem ‘Release’ was selected for publication in One Page Brisbane, Volume 2: Issue 1, Heat and Waves 2015. Release That afternoon in the Brisbane heat she jumped fully clothed from the timber bridge straight into water — Splashed in the current and let the cool seep into her bones drag her down…
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Shortlist – Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2015
On Friday 28 August at the Queensland Poetry Festival, Anna was thrilled to be short-listed for the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her unpublished manuscript Crunchy, No Bruises.
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‘River Food’ Poem Published in Cuttlefish Journal
Anna’s poem ‘River Food’ was selected for publication in Edition 1 of Cuttlefish Journal (Sunline Press), 2015. Below is her poem. River Food sand drawings feast tiny silver fish water eats moonlight carries fish back to river carries river back to fish
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Originality Prize – Deakin Leadership Centre’s International Poetry Competition
Anna won the Originality Prize in the 2014 Deakin Leadership Centre International Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Follow’.
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‘Grandma’ Poem in SpeedPoets Zine Vol 13.6
My Poem ‘Grandma’ was published in the SpeedPoets Zine Vol 13.6 Grandma Pawpaw tree out the front and mango tree out the back, we drove to your home on the coast. On my last visit I found out you spoke up to eight different languages: English, French, Hungarian, and a smattering of Italian,…
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‘The Gravity of Bones’ Poem in Rabbit Journal
Anna’s poem ‘The Gravity of Bones’ was published in Rabbit Poetry Journal- a journal of non-fiction writing, Gravity Issue 10, guest edited by Felicity Plunkett, 2013 The Gravity of Bones The skin hung off her skeleton arm. Her fingers curled into one another. Slowly her arm rose as if to wave, came to rest on…
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‘Crunchy, No Bruises’ Poem in Rabbit Poetry Journal, 2013
Anna’s poem ‘Crunchy, No Bruises’ was published in Rabbit Poetry Journal- a journal of non-fiction writing, Gravity Issue 10, guest edited by Felicity Plunkett, 2013 Crunchy, No Bruises When we visited next, he didn’t recognise me. He stared right through me and out the other side. I wanted to pick out his pupils, whisper my…
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Poem in SpeedPoets Zine Vol. 13.3
Anna’s poem ‘Tonight I Cannot Sleep’ was published in SpeedPoets Zine Vol 13.3. Tonight I Cannot Sleep Darkness presses against my window. I am lit by computer glow. On my desk sits a packet of liquorice. Its aniseed flavour fills my mouth. summer night pale belly of the gecko pulses