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

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

  • little

    my arms around my six-foot son hold only a little part of him Read more

  • A sold-out poetry show? In Perth? Yes, you heard me right.

    When you organise a show, publicity is the hardest thing to get right, and it seems WA Poets Inc and Fringe World got it right for this event, because it was sold out. About 150 denizens of the planet’s most isolated city, often derided as a philistine mining outpost, paid to see a poetry show. Read more

  • with you

    (after reading Li Po) don’t know how far I’ll walk with you might be the long silk road might be just to the corner First published in Creatrix Read more

  • halfway

    I will wander the wilderness I won’t listen to anyone but the trees I won’t look at the milestones I will look at the moon I will walk a long road I won’t run I won’t follow you I will meet you halfway I won’t scream like a banshee I MIGHT SCREAM LIKE A BANSHEE! Read more

  • Deft, left and definitely def: Ben Mellor’s “Anthropoetry” at FringeWorld

    Last night I took the number 22 bus up Beaufort Street to FringeWorld venue Noodle Palace for the opening night of Anthropoetry, written and performed by UK poet Ben Mellor and his musical sideman Dan Steele. Anthropoetry is billed as “a humorous, musical, spoken word journey around the human anatomy, attempting to get the measure Read more

  • Outsourcing my accommodation: my attitude to renting

    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