

Poetry
I’ve published poetry in journals since 1996, and have appeared as a feature reader in Melbourne, interstate and internationally. My three poetry books are Minorphysics (IP 2003), Awake Despite the Hour (Five Islands Press 2007) and Standard Variation (Walleah Press, 2014). I hope you enjoy these samples from the books, and some other poems published recently:
Letter to Franz Kafka (Cordite)
Weekend Warriors of the Apocalypse (Australian Poetry Journal 8.2)
First Day of Holidays (Studio) (+winner of Studio Gallery Poetry Prize)
Give the poem room to speak (Best Australian Poems)
Western Landscapes with Retreating Horizons (Westerly; Best Australian Poems; Standard Variation)
The Real Iseult the Fair (The Age; Standard Variation)
Infinity – (Blast; Standard Variation)
After a Line by Rumi – (The Australian; Standard Variation)
Seen Before the Credits – (Arena; Standard Variation)
Four Seasons of the Heart (Studio)
Sleepless in Braybrook – (Minorphysics; Southerly)
OurLand – (Minorphysics; The Australian)
Get the Word – (Minorphysics; Best Australian Poems)
Convincing Ground – (Awake Despite the Hour; National Indigenous Times)
Awake, Despite the Hour – (Awake Despite the Hour, Antipodes)