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.
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 🙂
Play my new bitsy game-poem ‘stand up’ in Backslash Lit!
‘Being trans is about breathing, loving and being; and, in this story, it’s about finding small joys and knowing you are loved.’
Backslash Lit Issue 6: ZIP / FREEZE / BUNDLE
New poem! ‘Gender marker’ (from my forthcoming collection ‘Exactly As I Am’ – UQP) has been published in Rabbit 34 – Reportage.
My Zalgo text poem ‘your AI girlfriend named “it”’ has been printed in the always-wonderful Australian Poetry Anthology.
I’d highly recommend subscribing to Australian Poetry Journal for your yearly fix of refreshing, exciting and challenging poetry.
My upcoming poetry collection Exactly As I Am was mentioned in Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘The most anticipated books of 2022’ by Melanie Kembrey!
It’s here! My dystopian Animal Crossing poetry zine ‘No Horizons’.
You can grab a PDF copy on:
Etsy ($5.50 AUD) or Itch ($4 USD).
Wow! My poem ‘How to Haunt’, published in Going Down Swinging, has been shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award.
You can also vote for me (and other amazing shortlisted folks) in the People’s Choice section if that’s something you’d like to do.
Rae White 