Glasshouses poems at Verity La, Mary Gilmore Award winner

Thanks to Michele Seminara, Managing Editor of the fabulous Verity La, for publishing four poems from Glasshouses. ‘ENDONE^® Oxycodone hydrochloride 5 mg’, ‘Port Curtis Road’s End’, ‘Black Cockatoos’ (after David Brooks) and ‘Matrimonies’ (a cento from Gwen Harwood) are accompanied by Untitled, 2016, by friend and photographer Leigh Backhouse.

And congratulations to Aden Rolfe, winner of the 2017 ASAL Mary Gilmore Award for False Nostalgia! You can read Tony Messenger’s interviews with Aden, Carmine Frascarelli (shortlisted for Sydney Road Poems), Alison Whittaker (shortlisted for Lemons in the Chicken Wire), Claire Nashar (highly commended for Lake) and me (shortlisted for Glasshouses) here.