Monday, May 30, 2011

Australian Poetry Library
A great resource for poets, students, teachers. Needs filling in some.
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/ Poetry Library
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Andrew Burke at High Spirits

Thursday, May 26, 2011


Open publication - Free publishing at ISSUU - More Australian

You can view my new e-book at
http://members.iinet.net.au/~helen.hagemann

and also at

http://issuu.com/evangelyne/docs/par_ecrit/



Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Good Wine is a Familiar Creature

                   
When the sun goes down we meet
                   for an evening meal.

We bring three bottles of wine, one champagne
              their depth soon to be released     absolutely
                enjoyed           on the tongue

Unsure of which
                     succulent dish               arrives first,
we pop the champagne, froth in the glass
                                                    bringing us back to life.

Curried chicken with rice has a status of its own
         strikingly familiar
                                   with the one at home.

The waitress brings the pork, then the fish. Something
              spills on the table as minute as a bead.
                                      It rolls under the carousel
 and is gone.

                       White wine is the fruity kick of glass.

Three of us are very drunk.
             The fourth, who drives us home, who doesn’t drink,
                            enjoys the evening just the same

                and marbles              
                       the glazed eye of a fish
                                 through the wet space
                                            of the coffee table

spilled with roiled droplets…

Wednesday, May 11, 2011


at the Perth airport
a comfortable-trouser family
a row of tracky dacks


Acknowledgements to Joanna Preston for her prompt on "comfortable trousers".
http://jopre.wordpress.com/

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Monday, May 2, 2011

     



A glimpse of the Aurora
from within the cavern in the wall of the shelf-ice
of the Mertz Glacier Tongue,
Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land,
Australasian Antarctic Expedition,
December 1913. Photo by Frank Hurley.















The Ship inside the Cavern

The Aurora is caught
in a clamped iced year,
an amphitheatre of walls,
a large cave that puddles
each time winter leaves.
The great opening of ice
looks out as if the ship
has been emptied into the sea.
A chiaroscuro of light and dark
shadows and dims the bridge,
the sail-less masts, the hull
buoyant above the water-line.
Accompanied by great clumps
of ice there is a scent of brine,
damp boots in circuitry
from anchorage to sled.
Beyond, distance looms like shallow
breath. Mawson and Hurley
catching up with the shuffle
of Adélie penguins.

Bounty

Bounty
Prose Poetry

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett
A Family Saga

The Ozone Cafe

The Ozone Cafe
White Collar Crime

The Last Asbestos Town

The Last Asbestos Town
Available from Amazon

Evangelyne

Evangelyne
Published by Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne

of Arc & Shadow

of Arc & Shadow
Published by Sunline Press, WA

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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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