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 don’t like being described as a “performance poet”: that’s only half the story. Since I published a collection, people have said to me that my poems contain patterns and forms that are not discernible from my performances. And I find the idea of someone sitting down with my book and … Read more
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Here’s a video of me performing poetry at Cottonmouth on 16 April 2009. Read more
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On a street of dead lawns, security grilles bricks through windows where St Vincent de Paul’s have moved out because of crime I’m thinking about soldiers and guards. Fire stakes, nine-tails, gas chambers, rape camps, waterboards. Detention centres. Deaths in custody. Cell suicide. Paddywagon murder. Along the footpath a young woman pushes a a stroller.… Read more
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Cafe Boulevard deconstructs its caesar salad and lets me eat in front of the computer as I never do at home. Dymocks takes five of my books but Borders tells me to call head office. Mary Martins takes two. After the reading I go out with Peach and Ava Lanche and MCM and Alice and… Read more
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Melbourne, July 2009 There’s a Nick Cave on every corner in shock-black hair, hitching up his ill-fitting pants on his skinny structure, leaning into doorways, smoking There’s a buttoned-up New York coat and hat on every block, black or checked, standing straight There’s a thin face, shadowed chin, sideways look It’s in all this brick… Read more
