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  • 2025-12-19

    A portion of earth

    Poems

    Birds give it / to the forest floor / Cows let it fertilise next year’s grass … Read more

  • 2025-11-28

    the wave

    Poems

    now nearly eighty / no longer blond … Read more

  • 2025-11-25

    Mini-review: Christine della Vedova’s poetry zine “Your Body”

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    Mini-review: Christine della Vedova’s poetry zine “Your Body”

    The ten poems in “Your Body” showcase the potential of poet and storyteller Christine Della Vedova to make a substantial original contribution to Western Australian ecofeminist literature. Grounded in both fairy tales and real-life experience, they explore the pains and joys of … Read more

  • 2025-11-22

    The past simple

    Poems

    Gillian has died, said my father’s voice in my ear. // That can’t be right. If she’s dead—gone—not here— / there is no Gillian, so how can she have died? Gillian / died. I’ll use the past simple. It’s simple. / She was here. Now she’s not. But who / died? … Read more

  • 2025-11-14

    In the dark sky reserve

    Poems

    Longing for stars, I woke / at the poets’ hour. I sat up, / parted the drapes. A light / shone down on the empty street. / Another … Read more

  • 2025-10-24

    INflight: a zine I made at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

    Stories
    INflight: a zine I made at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

    A Guide to NAVIGATION by a thread. Read more

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