Category: Poetry

  • Strength through struggle [June 2014]

    Hi everyone, Recently I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about words, in particular the word choices that we make when we’re writing something or talking to someone. I’ve written a couple of pieces along these lines this month, a general article called Choose your words carefully and then a post examining language priming, particularly in relation to…

  • London Snow

    I first drafted this poem in 2003 when I was living in Wimbledon, London, five minutes walk from the fabulously beautiful Wimbledon Common. I edited and had the poem published in the UTS Students Magazine ‘The Fine Print’ in 2006. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • About Time

    This poem was long-listed for the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize. You can read more about the prize and download the 2013 longlist Anthology online here.  About Time Oh so it’s an intervention. Fine. Bring it on Fuckers. What took you so long? Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Memories – by Candy Royalle

    Following is the poem Memories, by poet and performance artist Candy Royalle. I first met Candy and saw her perform at Sydney University, where she was speaking on Palestine with Antony Loewenstein and my boss, David Shoebridge. I was floored by both the words of this poem and their performance, and wanted to share it as widely…