Sample Poems

Select publications from around the web

• Meanjin Autumn 2019: Fugal State
• Cordite MONSTER Issue May 2019 : Only fair
• Not Very Quiet Issue 4 March 2019: Folly
• Axon: Creative Explorations, Issue 8.1: mothful
• Australian Book Review 2017 (States of Poetry – ACT – Series 2): Melinda Smith

From my books

From Man-handled

• The space inside his fist
• Afternoon at La Pietra

From Perfectly Bruised

• Interrupting the breadmaking
• Mother Love

From Listen, bitch

• Sweetheart
• Zero Sum

From Members Only

• Parliament
• Menzies

From Goodbye, Cruel

• Contemplating the gap
• Leaves from the lovers’ almanac

From Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call

• Given
• Women’s work
• No Bed

From First… Then…

• I prefer
• Brain weather