This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
I’m the featured poet in the following three episodes of Red Lobster, a poetry program that screened on Northern Access Television, Melbourne. Some of the open-mike poets aren’t bad either 🙂 Look out for Jennifer Compton, Maurice McNamara, and David McLauchlan, who is also the cameraman and producer. We were filmed at WestWord on 8… Read more
About the people in Amber Fresh’s poem “wind farm” wind in the turbines electric generation his fingers brush mine Read more
in stark black lines on white the cane toad with lumps and warts drawn as rounds and discs inked eyes a curve as a hint of tongue comes out of the night with its croak: am I not? am I not, too, made for some place? First published in Westerly Published in the Fremantle Press… Read more
Scared It is dark. I am lost. It is horrible. I mean it is really really scary. When it is light I am found. ——Callan (aged about 10) He hugs his teddy-bear and says Sing a happy song. He wants a happy song, lilting along, to distract him from the growl of his voice-destroying fear.… Read more
I get a beer and lean on the bar I can smell the pheromones He’s been sweating into that t-shirt all afternoon I want to touch but he doesn’t even smile I think he’d be intense in bed A really good hard fuck But he’s so serious He doesn’t flirt And I don’t know where… Read more