One Pen
There's a kid in your class who has a brand new pencil case full of different coloured pens, pencils, highlighters, markers, crayons --...
Ossuary
It is the bones. It is the rattle and crack of what remains as the caws of the corvids scrape across tar, crying for flesh; feeding...
Beware Big Brother
Censorship ensures that a society stays in an adolescent mind-set: "You tell me I can't do it, therefore I want to do it and will break...
A bit of a conversation with myself
ME: I should probably write new stuff ME: Why? ME: To stay relevant ME: How does that work then? ME: I need to write new poems...
There, but for the grace of...
Lately, Gold Coast news has been full of "the ice epidemic", focussing on teenagers. I know that from a position of middle class,...
Writing Australian
On my desk this morning* sits “Collected Australian Verse”, “Banjo Paterson’s People” and “Joe Wilson’s Mates” by Henry Lawson. ...
My thoughts on "interpreting" poetry
Soren Kierkegaard said “Once you label me, you negate me”, and I believe this to be true for poetry as well. A good poem (and I’m well...
Symbols
A symbol is another one of those lovely shortcuts to meaning that poets are so fond of, a word or image that represents an idea. If you...
NaPM 2016 Day 30 -- the end is here!
Many thanks to milo and the good folk at Pig Pen Poetry for a fantastic month of inspiration and enjoyment. Topic 30: Write a poem about...
