I’ve two newish poems in Glasgow Review of Books. ‘Glasshouses Redux’ was influenced in part by Golden Boy with Miss Kittin’s ‘Rippin Kittin (Glove Tension Dub)’, while ‘namesakes’ responds to 2017’s Tropical Cyclone Debbie. Thanks to poetry editor Samuel Tongue.

I’ve a cento about kindness (with lines from joanne burns, Jill Jones, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Dorothy Porter et al) in Overland 229, out this week, alongside many of my favourite writers. Thanks to editors Toby Fitch and Jacinda Woodhead. You can pre-order a copy here.

The final Tincture is available now!

Issue 20 includes fiction by Nigel Featherstone, non-fiction by Johannes Klabbers, creative non-fiction by Yen-Rong Wong, and poetry by Alice Allan, Luke Best, Jennifer Compton, Shastra Deo, Alison Flett, Rachael Guy, Carmen Leigh Keates, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Paul Scully and Jane Williams.

You can read the Editorial, by Daniel Young and myself, here, and buy a copy here.

Thanks to Daniel Young, to every poet who sent their work to Tincture, to every reader, subscriber and supporter! Five years … A real blast!

On Friday my #8WordStory appeared on Brisbane’s digital billboard’s.

Thanks to Queensland Writers Centre for their support and Ray See for the photo.

You can read more about and join the #8WordStory project here and follow on Twitter.

My ‘Ghazal for The Sisters of Mercy’ (Leonard Cohen? Andrew Eldritch? Catherine McAuley) has been published in the current issue of Transnational Literature alongside Gillian Dooley, Kathryn Hummel, Heather Taylor Johnson, Jill Jones, Pooja Nansi, Jaydeep Sharangi, Cyril Wong et al. Thanks to editor Alison Flett.

Yes, yes, it’s true.

If you missed our announcement on Twitter yesterday, here it is: our forthcoming Issue 20 is going to be the final issue of Tincture Journal. Our last hurrah!

I’ve five poems in Otoliths forty-seven. One’s a remix of some of the gorgeous lyrics from one of my favourite records, Josh Ritter’s The Animal Years. Thanks to Mark Young. This issue also includes work by Ken Bolton, Jill Chan, Adam Fieled, Andrew Galan and Obododimma Oha.

Recent homophobia prompted this new poem, ‘An Abecedarian on Provincial Drinking’, which appears in Peril Magazine’s We’re Queer Here double issue. Thanks to editor Mindy Gill.

On Monday my #8WordStory appeared on Brisbane’s digital billboards.

Thanks to Queensland Writers Centre for their support and to Tiny Owl Workshop for the photo.

You can read more about and join the #8WordStory project here and follow on Twitter.

Poetry submissions for Issue 20 (December 2017) will be open from 13 Sept – 13 Oct. Please send up to five poems in a single file. In the interests of diversity, please note that we are highly unlikely to publish your work in two consecutive issues unless it’s part of a continuing series that we’ve already agreed upon.

We have an Australian focus, but consider writers from all around the world. We would particularly like to see some more English writing from the Asia Pacific region and by Indigenous Australians and Indigenous people around the world. We are committed to publishing a diverse range of voices, including diversity of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and writing experience.