This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
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In virtual reality my son told me you can now move a ball with your mind A helmet with electrodes gathered the waves An experimental subject gradually learned A digital exoskeleton slowly adapted In a matrix within the Matrix a sphere rose and fell In a dream I tele the lights on and off by… Read more
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List of publications 2017–2019 with links. First prize, books, thesis, essay, anthologies, journals, peer-reviewed conference paper. Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Live Canon, The High Window, The Canberra Times, Cordite Read more
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43 poems, a metafictional narrative, 4 essays. Explores how poetry might bring together spiritual and scientific discourses, focusing on philosophical Daoism, physics and systems theory. Novel scholarship on poets Judith Wright, Randolph Stow, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rebecca Elson, Cilla McQueen, Frederick Seidel. Read more
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February 2016 Gravitational waves were detected last week, I said. What are they? she asked. It’s Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, I said. Think of space (spacetime, I should have said) as a rubber sheet. Where there are heavy things on it, like stars and planets, it bends downwards. That’s gravity. Oh! she said. Of… Read more
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It looks as if spatial distances do not exist for electrons. ——Michael Heller O being on Proxima B, are you made of liquid water and chains of carbon? Hair, feather, scale, bark, or something else? Photon sensors adapted to Proxima’s red? What do you call the Centaurs? How do the constellations look from there? Are… Read more
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They’ve put a waste pipe in the middle of our feeding grounds. “They” is the humans. The waste pipe is their collective arsehole. I know what it is because the dolphins called a meeting. I want to swim with my shoal in the dappled shallows and chase the little fish. I want to dance with… Read more
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