Huge thanks to fellow Australian poet James Laidler for interviewing me on his excellent Litpoetry Podcast. James also made a beautiful poetry video of my poem, ‘Family Tree‘, which comes from my newest poetry collection Suburban Fantasy. Please check out James’ website which hosts a swathe of resources for poetry lovers and writers alike — plus, some excellent guidance for …
Please join me for the virtual launch of Suburban Fantasy this Thursday 1 July! The book was to have been launched in person by Senator Mehreen Faruqi in the beautiful Enid Cook room above Surry Hills Library, with wine and food aplenty. Sadly, due to Sydney covid restrictions, this is no longer possible and the event will now be held …
A huge thanks to Robert Adamson, Yvette Henry Holt, Robbie Coburn and Anne Casey for their generous commentary on my new poetry collection Suburban Fantasy. You can read their kind words below, sample poems from the book here, and if you feel inspired to do so, support Australian poetry by buying a copy from UWA Publishing! “Michele is the finest …
I’ve neglected this blog of late, so am playing a quick catch up! I had a wonderful time being one of the inaugural feature poets for Girls on Key Sydney with Eileen Chong and Anne Walsh, and will also have the honour of being a feature poet for the inaugural Sydney Poetry Lounge with Lorne Johnson this coming Tuesday 3 April. …
Your silence masses upon me; a familiar wait/weight. I contain it lest it cedes and leaves a more incisive absence. Silence as accusation, veiled self-violation. I try it on, rehearsing how I might feel if— This is the white noise you’ve always prophesised: a resounding of renounced pain hope words memory mother.
I’m thrilled to have been asked (along with Queensland poet, Nathan Shepherdson) to co-judge this year’s Queensland Poetry Festival Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award. This award, now in its third year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon. The word ekphrasis comes from the Greek ek (out) & phrasis (speak), and is a rhetorical device in which a visual object, …
I contemplate your arc, which has been cut. Your projected ghost limb twitching in the glare of my grand truncated hope. Grief breaking bounds and bearing us fused into myth. Listen, I’m a mother, your mother — It’s my job to scout ahead. Even in a world that scoffs at maternal prescience I persist, baying like a bitch at spectres …
I’m thrilled to announce the publication of a new chapbook written in conjunction with my dear friend and stellar poet, Robbie Coburn. Scar to Scar was conceived when Robbie sent me a poem and I replied, in kind, with a poem I ‘found’ within his, re-ordering his original text as a form of poetic alchemy. Our collaboration developed over the next …
I’ve been lucky to receive a number of very positive and thoughtful reviews of my poetry collection, Engraft: one by Mary Cresswell in Plumwood Mountain; another by Magdalena Ball in The Compulsive Reader; and a third, by Alyson Miller, in Cordite Poetry Review. My sincere thanks to the reviewers and to the editors of these excellent journals — Anne Elvey, Magdalena Ball …
every morning i wake, i wake surprised. that life appears again with each opening of these eyes. that eyes arise with opening of each day. that when both close, all i’s fall away.