I have a new spoken word poem published on Baby Teeth Journal!
‘Don’t feed’ was inspired by a real life experience of feeding Schmackos to a magpie, then suddenly finding myself surrounded by many feathered Schmacko enthusiasts! At the time my city, was about to enter a lockdown and I remember wondering what would happen if, in our absence, these birds decided to take over? The result was this weird, spooky poem.
Listen to/read ‘Don’t feed’ on the Baby Teeth Journal website.
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.
Subscribe to APJ on their website.
Ray/Rei Cox and I co-wrote a poem about the basil plant that travels with her in their van. And it’s been published in Cordite Poetry Review 102: GAME!
Read our poem ‘Reverse Reverence’.
I recommend viewing the desktop/full version and reading from the bottom upwards.
Photo by Lavi Perchik on Unsplash.
I have a new poem in Island Magazine called ‘a half-eaten succulent addresses the possum’. I wrote this poem in an awesome workshop taught by Maddie Godfrey – thank you so much for your inspirational exercises!
You can subscribe to Island or buy this single issue on their website.
My poem ‘The System’ got a Special Mention in the Baby Teeth Journal Blackout Poetry Competition this month!
Huge thanks to Baby Teeth Journal for running this cool comp.
And congrats to my fellow special mentions Pete Goderie and Lily Holloway!
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with the wonderful folks at Queerious Minds about gender, queerness, poetry and #EnbyLife journal.
Have a read of the full interview on the Queerious Minds website.
Very exciting news! This week I join Queensland Poetry as their Events and Marketing Manager!
Big love to Zenobia Frost who handed over the reins to me this weekend and has done an absolutely outstanding job. In this role I hope to honour, nurture and celebrate the poetry community, and the voices of future and established artists, especially those from marginalised backgrounds. May I remain humble, driven and community-focused.
Queensland Poetry (QP) supports poets and spoken-word artists in Queensland, Australia through its flagship annual festival, year-round events and workshops, Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence Program, Arts Queensland Poetry Awards, prizes and challenges, and in-school programs.
From qldpoetry.org/about
Our upcoming poetry events are listed on the QP website. I’d love to see you there!
I’m proud to have a new interactive Twine poem ‘How to Haunt’ published at Going Down Swinging! It’s an abstract journey through ghost hunting, transgender hauntings and bodies, and the erasure of trans histories.
Interact/play/read/consume ‘How to Haunt’ at Going Down Swinging. (TW for discussions of transphobia.)
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.
I have a new poem in the latest Vastarien Vol 3 Issue 2! It’s a found poem with Zalgo text called ‘your AI girlfriend named “it”’ and it’s based on phrases from the article ‘Sex robots with “coding errors” prone to “violence and could strangle humans” (David Rivers, The Daily Star, 2019). Grab a print or ebook version of Vastarien at: https://grimscribepress.com/issues/
