Chuffed to have a poem in Mascara Literary Review, edited by Michelle Cahill.

‘The Moon and the Mason Jars’ (for my dear friend Ruth Whebell) will also be published in my first collection, Glasshouses (UQP, August 2016).

While you’re at Mascara, check out Rose Hunter’s poem ‘el edén’. I’m currently reading Rose’s chapbook descansos (dancing girl press, 2015). In her foam:e review of descansos poet and winner of the 2006 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Angela Gardner wrote ‘[this collection] maintains its focus in a way that allows the reader’s mind to follow many paths without losing direction. The subject is serious and the gaze unflinching and honest. [Rose’s] ability to make language and image strange, ensures we look deeper.’

I’m eagerly awaiting Rose’s next book of poetry, glass (Five Islands Press, 2017).

I’m really pleased to have my poem ‘Fingal’ (which first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review 103) included in Poetry & Place Anthology 2015, edited by Ashley Capes and Brooke Linford.

This varied anthology also includes writing from Ivy Alvarez, Benjamin Dodds, Anne Elvey, Stu Hatton, Mark William Jackson, Jill Jones, Chris Lynch, Nathanael O’Reilly, Brenda Saunders, SB Wright and Les Wicks et al.

Poetry & Place Anthology 2015 is available in print and as e-book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Fishpond, and Angus & Robertson Bookworld.

I’m thrilled to have a poem in Meanjin Winter 2016 — my first appearance in one of Australia’s most forward-looking literary journals.

‘Ebon Cans’ (anagram of ‘Bone Scan’) is, in part, about Australian poet and librettist Gwen Harwood, and will also appear in my first collection, Glasshouses (UQP, August 2016).

In this issue there’s other new poetry from Eileen Chong and Sarah Holland-Batt, and new fiction from Alice Bishop and Ben Walter.

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.

Full Table of Contents here.

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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.