This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

My writing

My writing that is published on this site, including lots of creative commons poetry.

  • Perth Poetry Club, the mathematics of publicity, and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

    Today was going to be my Day Off. It’s a beautiful sunny day and I was going to wander out, maybe take in some art, maybe have coffee with a friend or see a movie. But I find myself thinking—worrying!—about Perth Poetry Club, the weekly community event I instigated in early 2009, inspired by Melbourne’s Read more

  • 4 weeks in the ghost house: Writing in Residence at Mattie Furphy House

    It’s a wintry day, but the sharp Perth light pushes its way through the clouds onto my donated desk, a yellowed pine dining table. The antique table and chairs in the corner are roped off, presumably too fragile or precious to sit at, but not sacred: powerboards, papers and stationery obscure the white lace tablecloth. Read more

  • Gripping the bark

    I sit in my layers of clothes as the storm sucks and exhales The wooden windows bump and rain caws on the corrugated roof I wonder what the ravens are doing I suppose they’re in a huddle in the northeastern quarter of a strong tree with thick foliage, gripping the bark with their claws, hunching Read more

  • a new candle

    as the storm tries the wired walls the lantern’s door is open and a new candle hopes for sudden dark Read more

  • sunflower

    the black centre of the sunflower is where the seeds are Read more

  • Two short poems

    hard wind slant rain feet snugged in uggboots last year’s holes gaffataped   new September sunlight the door of the dark room left ajar Read more