In the spirit of Magritte's 'This Is Not a Pipe', this is NOT my new book of poems, Object Permanence: Calligrammes, featuring my pattern poems collected together from 7 previous books of poetry, in technicolour (Puncher & Wattmann / Thorny Devil Press): https://t.co/Gv92paCBMY
I have a small-ish academic monograph (or minigraph), called Aussi/Or: Un Coup de dés Down Under, getting published today by @press_erratum in the UK. You can read a bit about it, and/or buy a hard copy, and/or download an open source PDF, here:
https://t.co/hHYofZ9h4T
New poem of mine, 'Pictures of the End', published by the journal Coastlines (edited by Aidan Coleman). It's a largely found poem, or assemblage, in three sonnets. Lots of other poems and besides in the latest issue: https://t.co/GMGnVcxZ0d
The Poetry Night at Sappho for June is tonight, with Cornflake Sunset (Luke Beesley), Suneeta Peres da Costa, Mark Roberts, and Moya Costello! https://t.co/vdRbabe2cv (image: Hella Guth, 'Isle vagabonde', 1957)
An open letter from First Nations storytellers to the Queensland State Library and the Queensland Education and Arts Minister, in solidarity with our Martu sibling, Ren Wyld, and with our siblings at black&write! https://t.co/thxLhGBPif
I've been running a new project @OverlandJournal, publishing a poem online every 3rd Friday—'The Friday Poem', if you will. Here's a thread of all the poems so far:
I've been running a new project @OverlandJournal, publishing a poem online every 3rd Friday—'The Friday Poem', if you will. Here's a thread of all the poems so far:
The Poetry Night at Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar for May is tonight, with guest poets Louis Armand, David Stavanger, Nathan Shepherdson, Hani Abdile and Robin M Eames: https://t.co/Ay5SOQyXId (image: Alun Leach-Jones, Pueblo, 1973).
My poem, 'A Bunch of Extinct Australian Flowers', published in Cordite Poetry Review 116: Remember, edited by Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Micaela Sahhar: https://t.co/DwSwrz2kMZ
Australia is required by international law to do everything in its power to prevent genocide, even when it thinks its specific actions won't stop it.
In trading with Israel, Australia is not only flouting international law, but literally supporting a genocide
@AlboMP@SenatorWong
The Poetry Night at Sappho for April, AVANT GAGA #72, with guest poets Eileen Chong, Šime Knežević, Huang Fan, and Josh Stenberg, is tonight! https://t.co/0gJINI1uo5 (Image: Ma Shuqing, 'Untitled', oil on canvas)
We're beginning to unlock materials from issue #256 of Overland this week, and the place of honour firmly belongs to the beautiful speech (plus new poem!) that outgoing poetry editor @Toby_Fitch delivered at our 70th anniversary last year. https://t.co/34aX8BASGa
I'll be reading a couple of new poems tomorrow night from 6:30 at Better Read Than Dead in Newtown as part of David Stavanger's The Drop Off book launch. Come along to also hear poems from Omar Sakr, Jennifer Wong and David! Book here:
https://t.co/DTSMCV66gI