War: a Mary Gilmore poem & the Mary Gilmore Award 2018

Australia and its Literary Environment. It's interesting when you discover anomalies in this Australian literary establishment. I was once short-listed for the Mary Gilmore award, but because I had previous published chapbooks, the short-list  acknowledgement was removed from the public realm. I have discovered that the short-list for the 2018 Mary Gilmore Award contains...

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Sunline Press

Great to see my publisher back on board (or is the press riding on a new wave?) and online! Sunline Press Sunline Press is an independent book publisher that was established in 2000 by Roland Leach. It primarily publishes works of poetry by individual poets but has branched out with its online magazine, Cuttlefish, to include flash fiction…http://www.sunlinepre...

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Prose Poem: Guitar Statue

            Guitar Statue              A dark grey, a very dark grey, quite dark it is almost black. This              statue is a composition not for practice. Ordinarily, a guitar would...

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Mirror: A Prose Poem

Mirror The reflection is opposite and this means exchange, and when a face is recognised it’s not evading artistic meaning or expression should the colour change. What is important is choice and position and what if there is shine, shine, shine! An angle of dazzle brings too much frustration. There is this exception every time there is too much light because a brightly...

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