I have a brand new poem in Australian Poetry Journal 12.1 – ‘divergence, relevance’.
With huge thanks to Guest Editors Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Esther Ottaway for choosing my work and the work of so many other incredible poets in this issue.
‘Home (pixels) (praise)’ is a poem I wrote during an online workshop with the amazing Joelle Taylor through Red Room Poetry.
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My Zalgo text poem ‘your AI girlfriend named “it”’ has been printed in the always-wonderful Australian Poetry Anthology.
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I’m lucky enough to have a poem in Australian Poetry Journal 11.1 ‘local, attention’ called ‘Abundantly blue.’
With huge thanks to editors Stuart Barnes and Claire Gaskin for their work in compiling this amazing issue.
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This year I again had the pleasure of judging the Anne Elder Award through Australian Poetry. Fellow Judges Marcella Polain, Toby Fitch and I chose our winner Ella Jeffery for Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann 2020), as well as awarding Highly Commended to Cadaver Dog by Luke Best (UQP 2020) and Commended to Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen (UQP 2020). Congratulations to all!
The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder, 1918-1976. The Anne Elder Award is sponsored by Anne’s daughter, Cathie, and is for a sole-authored first book of poetry of 20-minimum pages in length, published in Australia.
Read our judge’s comments about the award winning books and more information about the award on the Australian Poetry website.
My poem ‘Dirty talk’ (from my book Milk Teeth) is published in the latest Australian Poetry Journal Volume 8.2 – ‘spoken’, which features new works by more than 60 Australian poets, with poetry guest-edited by spoken-word poets Andrew Galan and David Stavanger. Following the ‘spoken’ selection is a separate section of 19 poems edited by Toby Fitch. This Big Bent series is an exploration of gender and language queering.
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Both sections are also accompanied by sound-recordings, which is very cool! You can find the recordings at australianpoetry.org.
Rae White 