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

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  • 2025-02-21

    screaming turkeys

    Poems

    As I write this the sun ninety-three million miles close is shining luxuriantly on the evergreens and glinting off the balcony railings of the flats across the road and scattering the sky into blue from ear to ear but this morning my neighbour from Los Angeles said that there the smog covers the entire sky.… Read more

  • 2025-01-17

    a nasturtium plant in early spring

    Poems

    … like a phalanx of makeshift shields … Read more

  • 2025-01-10

    An argument after rain

    Poems

    A rhyming poem. ‘The air suggests a poem, / its misty wishes / But I must tend my phone / and do the dishes :-( …’ Read more

  • 2025-01-03

    ordered

    Poems

    newly unloaded; // waiting on the wharf / among rows and rows / and rows of cars; … Read more

  • 2024-12-27

    Live poetry video: “Way more special” live at Dan Poets, Melbourne 2012

    Audio and video readings

    A poem about what men sometimes get wrong about women (and themselves!), and what women know about men. Read more

  • 2024-12-20

    Live poetry video: Jackson performs “quite a thing” at Dan Poets, Melbourne 2012

    Audio and video readings

    Climate poem or love poem? Depends what’s on your mind. Read more

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