What happened to quality journalism? The truth will shock you.
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Why should I edit?
Yet if any man who has received the gift of poetic fervor shall imperfectly fulfill its function here described, he is not, in my...
A bit of a conversation with myself
ME: I should probably write new stuff ME: Why? ME: To stay relevant ME: How does that work then? ME: I need to write new poems...
Writing Australian
On my desk this morning* sits “Collected Australian Verse”, “Banjo Paterson’s People” and “Joe Wilson’s Mates” by Henry Lawson. ...
Symbols
A symbol is another one of those lovely shortcuts to meaning that poets are so fond of, a word or image that represents an idea. If you...
Withdrawal
It is less than two months since I last swore off writing poems. I still have not written a poem, unless you count a couple of rude...
Narrative Poetry
With the prose novel so firmly entrenched as the fiction writer’s main outlet these days, it’s easy to forget – or to never have known –...