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