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.
Photo by Rodion Kutsaiev on Unsplash
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.
I have a new poem in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature | Vol 36 | Iss 2.
‘A robot discovers an overgrown garden, year 2121’ is an ekphrastic poem I wrote after Jane Grealy’s Maria’s Garden, Scheme B (2021); pastel, conte and charcoal on paper; Museum of Brisbane Collection.
Thank you to poetry editor Nathanael OʻReilly and the team at Antipodes. And to my Ekphrastic Writing Club at Museum of Brisbane.
I was honoured to be commissioned for this year’s Queensland Regional Art Awards Ekphrasis project by award-winning writer Cheryl Leavy, as part of Flying Arts Alliance’s touring exhibition, Perspective.
Commissioned poets include Stuart Barnes, Otis Carmichael, Cheryl Leavy, Steven Oliver and myself.
Check out the full catalogue for Perspective.
My poem ‘Distorted rainbows’ responds to Lincoln Austin’s ‘ I saw myself, in you, wondering, how did I get here’ – Winner of the ‘Art for Life’ Award. And my poem ‘Pixel-printed’ responds to Michelle Le Plastrier’s ‘Food-O-Matic + Pixel Printed Food’ – Winner of the Environmental Art Award.
The QRAA Ekphrasis project features work from poets who have lived and worked in urban, rural, regional and remote settings; work reflecting First Nations and LGBTQI+ communities; working artists and writers; published and unpublished writers; and poets who are emerging and well established.
Get ready for an unforgettable experience at Red Dirt Poetry Festival 21-25 August in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)!
Join me for Moonrise Poetry, a Zine Making Workshop, and Late Night Love Inn.
Check out the full Red Dirt Poetry Festival Program.
Moonrise Poetry
Date: 21 August
Time: 6.30-9pm
Location: Earth Sanctuary
Zine Making Workshop
Date: 25 August
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: The Roastery Cafe
Late Night Love Inn
Date: 25 August
Time: 9.15-11pm
Location: Araluen Arts Centre
Rae White 