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Happy to have a new poem in Griffith Review 66: The Light Ascending — The Novella Project VII. ‘The morning fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)’ samples ‘The Morning Fog’ (from Hounds of Love), Shelley’s ‘To a Skylark’ and George Meredith’s ‘The Lark Ascending’.

This issue, edited by Ashley Hay, also includes poetry by Stuart Cooke, Shastra Deo, Sarah Holland-Batt, Anna Jacobson, Ella Jeffery, Daniel Swain and Laura Taylor, memoir by Krissy Kneen, and fiction by Keren Heenan, Pat Hoffie, Allanah Hunt, Julienne van Loon, Holly Ringland and Mirandi Riwoe.

Griffith Review 66 is out November 5 (it’s a Scorpio, like me)! You can read more about it here.

‘Running In The Family’ is forthcoming in The Result Is What You See Today: Poems About Running (eds Paul Deaton, Kim Moore and Ben Wilkinson). ‘Uphill Triolets’ (i.m. Nancy Barnes, after Natalie Diaz’s ‘Downhill Triolets’) appears in Grieve: Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss: Volume 7, Hunter Writers Centre’s Grieve Writing Competition anthology. Thanks to the editors and judges.

Pleased to have a poem, ‘Form DV3’, in Rabbit 27: Tense (guest co-edited by Pascalle Burton and David Stavanger), alongside writing by Grace Yee, Melinda Smith, Felicity Plunkett, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Gemma Mahadeo, David McCooey, Jayne Fenton Keane, Anna Jacobson, Jill Jones, Tim Heffernan, Andrew Galan, Eileen Chong and Meera Atkinson et al.

You can read Editor-in-Chief Jessica L Wilkinson’s introduction and buy a copy here.

I have two poems — ‘Ebon Cans’ and ‘ENDONE® Oxycodone hydrochloride 5 mg’ — in Other Terrain Journal’s #WeToo issue. Thanks to editors Anne Casey and Wendy Dunn. You can read the full issue, including Tom Meagher’s introduction, here.

Pleased to have two poems — ‘Matrimonies’ (a Gwen Harwood cento) and ‘eggshells’ (i.m. Nancy Barnes) — in Backstory Journal’s #WeToo issue. Thanks to editors Anne Casey and Wendy Dunn. You can read the full issue, including Tom Meagher’s introduction, here.

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I have two poems about same-sex domestic violence, court process, and friendship in the latest issue of Southerly Journal. Thanks to poetry editor Kate Lilley.

My poem ‘Agave americana (A Decaying Sestina)’ (after Lawrence Schimel’s ‘Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina)’; Lawrence invented this brilliant variation) has been planted in Red Room Company’s New Shoots garden. Thanks to editors Ameila Theodorakis and Tamryn Bennett.

My poem ‘The Being’—partly about a line from Paul Celan’s Collected Prose (‘Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language’), partly about growing up gay in 1980s and 1990s Tasmania, the last Australian state to decriminalise male homosexuality, and its infamously homophobic pollies, including former Ulverstone councillor Jack Breheny (a bit of his most bilious volley appears here)—in The Weekend Australian Review. Thanks to editors Jaya Savige and Stephen Romei, thanks to Felicity Plunkett for the photo.

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I had fun juggling metaphors for wonderful Red Room Company’s Poetry Object 2019, which also includes poems by Claire G Coleman, Arielle Cottingham, Pola Fanous, Eleanor Jackson, Benjamin Laird, Jacqui Malins and Zech Soakai.

You can read my poem ‘You’re’ (thanks to Ben Dodds and Carlo for illuminations) and register your school for Poetry Object, which invites students (Years 3-10) and their teachers to create poems inspired by treasured, curious or talismanic objects, here.

Very pleased to have a new poem, ‘Migraine’, at Verity La.

This one, an abecedarian, is from my second poetry manuscript, Form & Function.

Thanks to Verity La’s poetry editors Michele Seminara and Robbie Coburn. Special thanks to amitriptyline.