I feel so privileged to share my poetry in the recently released Nothing To Hide – Voices of Trans and Gender-Diverse Australia.
This incredible anthology showcases a wealth of creativity from within the trans and gender-diverse communities, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art and much more.
Nothing To Hide is edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees and Bobuq Sayed, and published by Allen & Unwin.
You can grab your copy at all good book stores or your local library.
I have a new short story – ‘Not Gone, Just Different’ – up at Island Magazine online.
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‘Oh okay,’ I say, annoyed at the time I’ve just spent sewing two new masks for us. ‘But it’s not gone away, right?’
‘True, it’s not,’ she says, pulling my hand in the direction of home. ‘Not gone, just different.’
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Read the full story on the Island website.
I’m looking forward to reading at Red Room Poetry’s Queensland Poetry Salon at State Library of Queensland as part of #PoetryMonth, next Friday 19 August from 6pm.
I’ll be reading alongside amazing poets Lionel Fogarty, Samuel Wagan Watson, Huda the Goddess, Sachém Parkin-Owens, Hannah Macklin and emcee Angela Peita.
I had the pleasure of talking with David Ades for the WestWords Poet’s Corner podcast.
We chatted on the theme of “Unruly poems (ones that defy convention through structure, language, and themes)” and explored gender acceptance, discrimination, and identity, among many other things. A wonderful chat!
Have a listen here on YouTube.
Last night at the launch of Exactly As I Am, I asked the audience to help me write a new poem Mad Libs style and it was the most hilarious, wonderful, heartfelt time!
The result is this poem about queerness, community and birds, which I’m so proud to be launching today on International Non-Binary People’s Day.
I have a bunch of upcoming events, in-person and online, if you’d like to catch me reading from my new poetry collection Exactly As I Am:
Photo by Panos Sakalakis on Unsplash.
My second poetry collection Exactly As I Am (UQP) has just been published!
Grab a copy online on the UQP website or an ebook version at ebooks.com.
Exactly As I Am is also available at bookstores in-person and online. If they don’t have copies in stock, ask if you can order in!
If you can’t afford a copy and still want to read Exactly As I Am, check out your local library because libraries are great. If they don’t have copies, you can request some. ❤
I loved writing this poetic short story ‘The Offering’, published at Overland as their Friday Feature, supported through Copyright Agency. Many thanks to Claire Corbett for accepting this piece. 💚
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‘I wandered for hours, listening to their murmurs, their poetry, their dreams. What do plants dream of? Half moons and blue rain, soft breezes and rainbow sunsets, bubbling rivers and purpled daybreak.’
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Read the full story on the Overland Journal website.
Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize anthology. Edited by Toby Fitch.
Featuring three poems by me including ‘what even r u?’ 
And poems by fellow amazing poets: Evelyn Araluen, Chris Armstrong, Georgina M Bailey, Ross Belton, Lachlan Brown, Julie Chevalier, Thomas Denton, Julie Durrant, Joel Ephraims, Luke Fischer, Lou Garcia-Dolnik, Myles Gough, Kia Alice Groom, Fiona Hile, Dan Hogan, Duncan Bruce Hose, Holly Isemonger, Julie Jedda Janson, Patrick Jones, Sam Langer, Frances Libeau, Astrid Lorange, Roberta Lowing, K A Nelson, S.J Norman, Ella O’Keefe, Melody Paloma, Harry Reid, Aden Rolfe, Omar Sakr, Sara M Saleh, Brooke Scobie, Joel Scott, Andrew Watts, Mitchell Welch, Alison Whittaker, Tim Wright, Grace Yee and Jakob Ziguras.
‘Our schooners will be slick
with beer’s condensation.
We’ll use our empties
to catch rainfall.’
Read my latest poem ‘Catch rainfall’, published in swim meet lit mag Issue 2 – Dive.
I wrote it during an online workshop with Eileen Myles, as I watched flood water rise behind my house.
Big thanks to swim meet lit mag and Svetlana Sterlin for publishing this piece 🙂
Rae White 