a Christmas passing travelling home on Christmas Day full hearts and bellies straining bush teeming on either side of this glistening snake of humanity from the front seat a few sighs and then the benevolent curtain of rain parts to let Great Uncle Tommy pass through *On Christmas Day last year my great Uncle Tommy passed away …
Emily
It’s Emily Dickinson’s birthday. Here’s a poem I wrote about her, ‘found’ from within her own brilliant creations. Emily When I was a little girl They shut me up in prose Because I dealt my pretty words Like treason to my foes. A loaded gun – they called me – And carried me away And locked me in the closet …
Everything
Everything Everything’s so full of lasts, quivering, on the brink. Time thrusts forward. The body vehicle will not cease decaying, children growing ever distant, the umbilicus unraveling to unbearable lengths as we circumvent this world. Pause pause pause! People pass by in a slurry of incessant transformation. Surely there must be a limit? (There is not.) Death, inbuilt in those …
A Halloween Poem by Moonlight
My spooky little Halloween Poem by Moonlight has been picked up by the fabulous Blue Hour Magazine to be part of their latest print anthology. It really is a beauty, with so much fine poetry, prose, and artwork to explore. Please consider buying one, and have a spooky Halloween! A Halloween Poem by Moonlight I want my poems to disturb you …
Engraft
I recently had a poem published in Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, as part of their Out Of Sequence: The Sonnet’s Remixed project. Editor D.Gilson says of the project that ‘I was most interested in editing this collection as a way of exploring how in a specific moment — today, the second decade of the twenty-first century — …
Flowers
I have had a new poem, Flowers, published in Deep Water Literary Journal. You can read it below, or go to Deep Water and enjoy some of their truly wonderful poetry, fiction, and art. The journal publishes “works which engage with the psychological and physical aspects of the darker side of the human condition.” Please take a look, and perhaps …
Pièce de Shakespeare
I have had a new poem, Pièce de Shakespeare, published in Bluepepper. This is a found poem written to celebrate Bloomsday, which falls on the 16th of June. On this day every year literary nerds such as myself pay homage to James Joyce’s ground-breaking novel, Ulysses. I initially wrote this poem in response to a call out from The Found Poetry …
A Sudden Absence
I have had a new poem, A Sudden Absence, published in Bluepepper. Read it below, or better still, read it online at Bluepepper, where you will find an array of fine poetry on offer. This wonderful site, edited by Australian poet Justin Lowe, has recently been included in Pandora,the National Library of Australia’s Web Archive — which is a testament to the high …
HOARY
I am very excited to have my poem, ‘Hoary’, published in the wonderful Tincture Journal. Tincture is a quarterly online magazine full of great quality fiction, essays, interviews, and poetry. And it is only $8 an issue! You can have a look at some of Tincture’s free content here, and please consider buying a copy. It’s one of my favourite …
Rapture
I have had a new poem, Rapture, published in Deep Water Literary Journal. This fabulous new journal seeks to “become a haven for those who write about and produce artworks interpreting Darkness, whatever that may mean to the creator of the work”. Their first issue for the year is themed ‘Loss’ – it contains some fantastic artwork, fiction, and poems. You …