Selected Poetry

  • The Oysters Roar

    Overland

    Rounds of unshucked applause
    bursting from the silt…

  • South

    Cordite Poetry Review

    yet with cameras and caps, how
    diluted this tanker’s oil streaming
    through wharves,

  • Four Poems

    The Brussels Review

    we have legs
    like these young myrtles
    our forests are open
    and easy to walk in…

  • Five Poems

    Australian Book Review

    if we are straws slurping
    at this pool, it is to slake
    our own thirst…

  • Pads

    Southerly

    Not Frost, this embrace
    of dotted routes…

  • The Tall Man

    Cordite Poetry Review

    the vision has retreated into tamer signs,
    but for a moment I saw further;

  • Orchidaecean Footholds

    Plumwood Mountain

    pencil shy faces on your buds,
    these sweet small rosellas envy…

  • Cladding Sentiment

    Meanjin

    dark annuals;
    polished and ungrazed.

  • Pale and Cold

    Cordite Poetry Review
    the kayak is pounding at the rough-torn waves as though demanding to come inside…

  • Hymns

    Overland

    And can it be our voices need consoling,
    well we only link our voices at footy

  • Mt Frederick

    Cordite Poetry Review

    there is a passage in
    the lee, the lees
    of the sun;

  • Another Story

    Cordite Poetry Review

    Once there was a raven
    girl wiping weary towels
    across the face of spent
    plates,

A comprehensive list of publications is available here.