Tincture Journal Issue 14 will be available June 1, 2016!

This issue includes poetry by Jodi Cleghorn, Dave Drayton, Mark William Jackson, Rosanna Licari, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, BN Oakman, Nathanael O’Reilly, Catherine Vidler, Ben Walter and Kim Waters.

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Tincture Journal editor Daniel Young and I interviewed Alison Whittaker for and published two of her poems in Issue 13.

Alison’s marvellous debut poetry collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire (Magabala Books, 2016) won the State Library of Queensland’s 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship.

The Lifted Brow 29 is out now and includes my poem ‘The Mixtape’, which will also appear in my debut collection Glasshouses (UQP, August 2016). Huge thanks to Poetry Editor Zoe Dzunko and Team TLB!

The mixtape — Portishead’s ‘Roads’, Suede’s ‘The 2 of Us’, Pulp’s ‘Disco 2000’, etc — was given to me 21 years ago by the first guy I dated. The poem was written after unearthing the slightly scuffed but still-playable TDK D90.

This issue also includes words by Gillian Terzis, Paul Dalla Rosa, Amy Gray, Lou Heinrich, Dion Kagan, Khalid Warsame and Wendy Xu.

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Over the moon! Fiona Wright (whose Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger has been shortlisted for The Stella Prize) has included my cento ‘Airs or Wind’ in Seizure‘s Poetry Blast 2.

This cento from letters written by Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell responds to Michele Seminara’s ‘Words in Air’, a cento from letters written by Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop & published in Seizure’s Poetry Blast 1 as well as Engraft (Island Press, 2016), Michele’s debut poetry collection.

Chuffed to have a couple of poems in foam:e 13, co-edited by Angela Gardner & Jonathan Hadwen (thanks, both).

‘colour wheel’ (a moon poem) & ‘Bursaria spinosa’ (another moon poem, from my Cyclone Songs sequence) will also appear in my debut poetry collection The Staysails (UQP, August 2016).

This issue also includes includes poems by Chloë Callistemon, PT Davidson, Brett Dionysius, Kaya Ra Edwards, Alison Flett, Stu Hatton, Greg Horne, Rose Hunter, Thepoet Jackson, Anna Jacobson, Carmen Leigh Keates (incoming co-editor — congrats!), Jo Langdon, Rosanna Licari, Allan Peterson, Daniel Pilkington, Pam Schindler, Paul Scully, Ian C Smith, Melinda Louise Smith (an interview, too), Thomas J. Snarsky, Shane Strange & Heather Taylor Johnson … as well as reviews by Angela Gardner (Rose Hunter’s descansos), Jonathan Hadwen (Inkerman & Blunt’s Prayers of a Secular World) & Robert Wood (Peter Rose’s The Subject of Feeling).

Issue 13 (March 2016) is out now!

Poetry by J V Birch, Susan Hawthorne, Rose Hunter, Anna Jacobson, Rebecca Jessen, Magda Kapa, Anna Ryan-Punch, Dan Ryder, David Stavanger, and Mark Ward.

For this issue Daniel Young and I interviewed Alison Whittaker. Alison’s debut poetry collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire, Winner of the State Library of Queensland’s 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship, was published by Magabala Books on March 1. Two poems from Lemons in the Chicken Wire appear with the interview.

You can read Daniel Young’s editorial here and buy the issue here.

Cordite Poetry Review 53.0: THE END with poetry guest-edited by Pam Brown is now live and includes my poem ‘Tenons’.

The poem’s a cento from Margaret Scott, Dorothy Porter, Lesbia Harford, Rhyll McMaster, Dorothy Hewett, Katherine Gallagher, Dipti Saravanamuttu, Nicolette Stasko, Judith Rodriguez and Chris Mansell.

My thanks to Pam and Cordite’s Managing Editor, Kent MacCarter.

You can read the full issue here.

I love the editing process — the toing and froing, the umming and ahing, The Overture & the Underscore.

I am extremely fortunate to be working with the deeply intuitive and questioning Felicity Plunkett, poet, critic and Poetry Editor at University of Queensland Press.

And now, I have emailed The Staysails to UQP for further editing, typesetting, etc., and am thrilled to be working with the lovely Ian See, who I met at Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Writers Festivals 2015, and others at UQP.

Happy to have a couple of poems — one about the moon; the other, eggs — in Snorkel #22 which also includes poetry by Brook Emery, Rita Masae, Ali Znaidi, Jane Frank, Mark Young, PT Davidson, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Grant Cochrane, Chris Stewart, Alex McKeown and Johanna Emeney, as well as an excerpt from a play by Ken Duncum.

My thanks to editor Cath Vidler.

It is amazing how much my “sits” help … They clear the mind of that surplus of misery which is entirely subjective and unnecessary … I begin to understand what T. S. Eliot means in “Ash Wednesday”: “Teach us to care and not to care.”

Christopher Isherwood, Diaries Volume One: 1939 – 1960