The Stove

              (To the men who brought us the Global Financial Crisis)

‘Will you take a look at the stove?’

She said with resolution

Meaning as soon as possible,

Like now for instance.

It only took a few screws to reveal

Its inner workings.

Stuffed I thought shaking my head

In disbelief.

Little gremlins, cockroaches actually,

Had taken up…

In September 2009, I assembled a team of six poetry reviewers to cover Australia's only Spoken Word Poetry Festival: Overload Poetry Festival. Overland Literary Magazine lent us their blog for ten days and we quietly observed (and not so quietly commentated)…

On Palace Walls

I walk the empty streets

Cold, dark, desolate without you.

Our favourite haunts deserted.

The old crowd now

Badger bald, plump,

Seldom venture outside

Their suburban refuge.

Our Palace dance hall switched to bingo

Graffiti ridden finally abandoned.

For a moment it…

These details came my way, courtesy of another Writers' Group with whom I am affiliated, 

Opportunity: Manuscript Monday with Pan Macmillan.

Manuscript Monday is a new initiative which is part of Pan Macmillan Australia's manuscript submission process.

If you've ever dreamed of getting published, and have a story you'd like to pitch, here's your chance to have it read by a publisher. No more navigating the slush pile! Every Monday we…

One member misunderstood that I was the ABPA winner. 

In case it was misinterpreted by anyone else, -

A Bushman's Last Farewell was the 2011 winner.

This marvellous poetic piece was not created by

Jim Spain/Rimeriter.

This post might be useful to you if you are searching for a rhyme but it will also help you to get an inkling of the wonderful way English adopts words from other languages and from local dialects when it has a need.

I was thinking about hullabaloo as my word of the week. When I tried to guess its origin I found that I was completely wrong—it is a native to England and Scotland. I had thought that all words ending in -oo must come…

Fiona Wright

Knuckled

ISBN 9781920882754

$24.00

The first copies of Fiona Wright's debut collection have just arrived in the Giramondo office! They're available for sale on our website, or by…

For someone who has written two books of poetry, I am, perhaps, not as regular a reader of poetry as I should be. I do not keep track of the many vibrant internet publications, nor read literary journals regularly. Because I want to support my fellow poets, I end up buying (or sometimes trading) books at readings and events, and reading local poets and new books by friends and acquaintances. Sometimes this is less than rewarding, wanting to like the work, but…