This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
My writing
My writing that is published on this site, including lots of creative commons poetry.
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I live in a rented house, and the lease ends next month. A couple of months before this happens, the real-estate agent ask me to sign a form saying whether or not I want to renew, and for how long. The form includes a warning that there may be a rent increase, but it doesn’t… Read more
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I was asked to write a poem of up to ten lines in response to each of four visual works by artists with disabilities. “this is my pink / tint of spiders singing / my nightwings / ruffling in the violin wind” “We be three confident chicks / with midnight feathers ’n’ legs like sticks” Read more
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Google are really trying hard to promote Google+, have you noticed? The trouble is that compared to Facebook, Google+ is kind of like Canberra as compared to Sydney. For those not in Australia, Canberra is a planned city, the capital, where most people work for the government. It’s neat and tidy and well-behaved. It’s excellent… Read more
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One of the best things I’ve done during 2012—no, the best thing I’ve done—is throwing away my to-do list. When I say to-do list, I don’t mean a few odd jobs scratched on a scrap of paper clipped to the fridge door. “Fix the tap”, “Call the lawnmowing woman”, that sort of thing. I mean… Read more
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This is my favourite radio interview so far. I really enjoyed having this unscripted chat in October 2012 on Melbourne community radio station 3CR with poet Koraly Dimitriadis. Read along with the poems Read more
