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

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

  • to a certain extent

    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

  • Toilet cleaners are my heroes: musings on a better society

    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

  • Some advice for would-be poets: Judge’s Report, Glen Phillips Poetry Prize 2012

    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

  • Schoolyard ghosts

    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

  • Virid

    (Bassendean, May 2012) Among the gleaming chemical blades of the plastic lawn hundreds of grass-green stems rise up Read more

  • the washing bit

    So I walked away, found a corner booth in an empty bar, and fantasized You will be old, succumbing at last      to the things you’ve done to that body and I,      old too, but now the stronger one, will push your wheelchair around the neighbourhood      we found      or made      All these women who halo you,… Read more