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  • 2013-01-05

    Poems written for Creative Connections 2011

    Poems

    I was asked to write a poem of up to ten lines in response to each of four visual works by artists with disabilities. “this is my pink / tint of spiders singing / my nightwings / ruffling in the violin wind” “We be three confident chicks / with midnight feathers ’n’ legs like sticks” Read more

  • 2013-01-03

    Facebook is like Sydney, Google+ is like Canberra. For now.

    Articles and reviews

    Google are really trying hard to promote Google+, have you noticed? The trouble is that compared to Facebook, Google+ is kind of like Canberra as compared to Sydney. For those not in Australia, Canberra is a planned city, the capital, where most people work for the government. It’s neat and tidy and well-behaved. It’s excellent Read more

  • 2013-01-01

    Stranger

    Poems

    In India a stranger, 23, gang-raped, lies bleeding on the roadside as people pass In Australia a stranger, 2 or 3, sobs and shrieks three houses along as I watch the news Read more

  • 2012-12-31

    2012 publications

    Bibliography

    List of 2012 publications. Choral score, zine, articles, poems in anthologies and journals. Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, WA Poets, Cottonmouth, Regime, Tuesday Poem, poetrymagazine.com, The Mozzie, Creatrix Read more

  • 2012-12-12

    A dream achieved: no more “things to do”

    Articles and reviews

    One of the best things I’ve done during 2012—no, the best thing I’ve done—is throwing away my to-do list. When I say to-do list, I don’t mean a few odd jobs scratched on a scrap of paper clipped to the fridge door. “Fix the tap”, “Call the lawnmowing woman”, that sort of thing. I mean Read more

  • 2012-12-04

    “Like having your whiskey without ice”: Jackson interviewed by Koraly Dimitriadis

    Audio and video readings, Interviews

    This is my favourite radio interview so far. I really enjoyed having this unscripted chat in October 2012 on Melbourne community radio station 3CR with poet Koraly Dimitriadis. Read along with the poems Read more

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