Thank you Joe Twist for your stunning composition of my poem ‘Abundantly Blue’ and to the Australian Vocal Ensemble AVÉ for bringing it to beautiful blue life on the stage at the Brisbane Powerhouse last night for Melt Festival.
Love to my fellow UQP poets who had their work honoured last night too – David Malouf, Rebecca Jessen, Gavin Yuan Gao, and Jarad Bruinstroop.
I can’t believe Vocal Spectrum is next week! Get your tickets for Wed 5 Nov at Brisbane Powerhouse, part of Melt Festival. The Australian Vocal Ensemble will be performing a very special commissioned piece — Joseph Twist has set the words to my poem ‘Abundantly Blue’ to music!
‘Vocal Spectrum features new vocal chamber works by leading Queensland composers, each set to poetry by LGBTQIA+ poets from across the state, alongside striking new arrangements of beloved queer anthems.’
My beloved poem ‘Spirals exist in nature and have always been here’ has been published in Overland!
I loved writing this poem about soft trans-queer resistance, the beauty of T4T love, and the everlasting nature of spirals and gender fuckery. I’m thrilled it’s found a home in Overland. Thank you so much to poetry editor Elena Gomez for choosing this poem to publish.
Read my poem on the Overland website.
I have a tiny new poem in Strange Daze! So honoured to be in the very first issue of this mag alongside so many brilliant contributors. Huge congrats to Laura Bibby for all the work you’ve put into this beautiful project and into creating space for writers.
Read the first issue of Strange Daze.
My new poem ‘Is this devotion?’ has just been published in Island Magazine online!
It’s about the blooming obsession of new queer love, the soft touch of petal fingertips, the all-consuming refrain of spring.
I’m thrilled to be part of Q-Lit Festival’s Opening Gala on 20 June in Naarm (Melbourne).
More info and tickets for Q-Lit Festival.
About the Opening Gala
A gala of queer words, voices, and stories. One magnificent night of the stories we tell, the songs we sing and our thoughts that are changing the world. Featuring a range of writers, performers and presenters, responding to the festival’s theme of ”What fills your cup?”
Hosted by Bebe Oliver. Featuring Dean Arcuri, Tiger Salmon, Urvi Majumdar, Claire G. Coleman, Wallis Prophet, Noah Riseman, Lili Wilkinson, Rae White and Ed Moon
My poem ‘Hot Wheels’ is in the latest Meanjin!
Shout out to Echoes from the Cave Inn, the most queer nourishing magical open mic, where this poem was first born.
Grab a copy on the Meanjin website.
About Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025
Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just. The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home.
This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account.
What are we gambling with when we settle for what’s merely adequate? What have we already sacrificed the moment we come to realise what’s at stake? What is the price of the just?
Embrace Australia’s finest writers. Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025.
My new poem ‘We’ll show the world’ is out now in Denizen’s Digest – Issue 3: Expo 2088!
As an Expo ‘88 enthusiast, I was super excited to have my poem chosen to be part of this excellent local zine.
The Denizen’s Digest – a weird anthology by the Brisbane bizarre. The digest is a 60 page journey through locally created genre fiction, poetry, creative non-fic and more.
Curated by Netherworld denizens Tim Sifontes-Holzberger and Mitch Wilkins, the third-issue’s theme is ‘Expo 2088.’
I’m so thrilled to have a new ekphrastic poem in Cordite’s ‘Space’ issue, with thanks to guest editor Alicia Sometimes.
‘focused, unfurling’ is after Jane du Rand’s Thriving: Brisbane Bush Turkeys, and was written during a session of Ekphrastic Writing Club at Museum of Brisbane in 2023.
Thrilled to have a new poem ‘welcome to all this’ in Rabbit Poetry Journal #40 Extinction. Much love and appreciation for editors Jessica L. Wilkinson, Elena Gomez and aj carruthers.
As I write this a scrub turkey is scratching through the leaves outside my bedroom window and a lorikeet is yelling from a palm tree.
As I write this, Rabbit are waiting to hear back about vital funding. If you haven’t already please consider subscribing to Rabbit and/or buying some of their brilliant poetry collections.
(Excerpt from Jessica L. Wilkinson’s editorial.)
I have a new poem in the incredible Long Trek, edited by Alison Evans and Rafeif Ismail.
‘my white wing stretched over
your shoulder, my arm wreathed
around your waist. beneath
earth isn’t the place for creatures
like us …’
Read more of ‘despite grief’ via the Long Trek website.
Rae White 