This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
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This is my first-ever radio interview. In early 2008, poet Peter Jeffery invited me to come on his World of Art program on Perth community radio station 6EBA. Read along with the poems Read more
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(Poetry readings in Forrest Place, August 2011) Welcome to the virtual room / disconnected grey slabs white chairs white skins / beneath what’s left of the sky Welcome to the virtual room flags rectangles amplified cocoon / erected Welcome to the virtual room / appropriately protected from what’s left of the sky Read more
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John Daniel’s workshop, August 2011 that might be fine for two pages but could you write ten books some of these phrases we have a bear dancing it seems to be about a y’know in oil and gas piled in sorta like Bob Dylan I know, I know, but ideas from all over the place Read more
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I’ve been thinking about what kind of society we might have in the future, what kind of society I’d like to see develop, if humanity survives the current scary but rather exciting period of turmoil and change. And I’ve written some of it down. I’m nervous about posting these thoughts. I’m nervous that what I’m Read more
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When Peter Cowan Writers Centre asked me to be the judge for their recent poetry competition, I was pleased, but a bit hesitant. I don’t often enter poetry competitions because choosing one poem as the “best” from a whole field of entries seems kind of arbitrary. But I’m always up for a new experience, and Read more
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When the lollies are passed around they’re never the ones I like. They’re always sucrose-hit fake-colour convenience store cheapies. I like deep chocolate dense fudge soft glucose slow savour. Not available on just any corner. You unwrap one let me scent it I reach out but you snatch it back and hide it. When I Read more
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