Selections from
Sydney Spleen
(Giramondo 2021):
‘New Chronic Logics‘ in Southerly 79.3, 2022
‘Planned Obsolescences‘ (scroll to page 51) in TEXT, 2021
‘Left Hanging at the End of the End of the World Campaign‘ (scroll to page 79) in Australian Poetry Anthology Volume 9 2021–2022
‘An Absolutely Ordinary Poem‘ on Twitter, 1 July 2021
‘Entanglement‘ in Red Room Poetry, 2021
‘January 26‘ in Meanjin, 2021
‘Captain’s Cull‘ in otoliths, 2021
‘Two Calligrammes‘ in otoliths, 2021
‘New Phantasmagorics‘ in Visual Verse, January 2021
‘Spleen 2‘ and ‘Psychogeography‘ in Australian Poetry Journal 10.1, 2020
‘Sparkling Anxiety‘, winner of the Charles Rischbieth Jury Poetry Prize, in Red Room Poetry, 2020
‘Beneath the Sparkle‘ in Red Room Poetry, 2020
‘The Housing Bubble’ in Australian Poetry Anthology 8, 2020
‘New Work Metaphorics‘ in Australian Book Review, November 2020
‘Spleen 1‘ and ‘33 Fleurs du Mal of Sydney‘ in Minarets, 2020
‘A Massage from the Vice-Chancellor‘ in Cordite Poetry Review, 2020
‘Pink Sun‘ in Island Magazine, 2020
‘King Tide‘, shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize, later published in Cordite Poetry Review, 2019
‘The Last Few Budgets in a Nutshell‘ in Australian Poetry Journal 9.1, 2019
‘27 Materialisations of Sydney Cloud‘ in Island Magazine, 2017, and Best Australian Poems 2017
Selections from
Or, An Autobiography
(unpublished):
‘The Or Tree — Chapter 1‘ in Red Room Poetry, 2017
‘The Or Tree — Chapter 2‘ in Red Room Poetry, 2017
‘The Or Tree — Chapter 3’ in Rabbit Poetry Journal #20, 2017
‘The Or Tree — Chapter 5‘ in Southerly Journal, 2019
‘The Or Tree — Chapter 6’ in Rabbit Poetry Journal #30, 2020
Selections from
Where Only the Sky had Hung Before (2019):
‘Sapphic Birds‘ in The Weekend Australian, 2020, and originally in Southerly Journal, 2017
‘Often I Am Permutated into a Mermaid‘ in In Your Hand: a poetry collection for isolated times, 2020, and originally in Rabbit Poetry Journal #26
‘All the Skies Above Girls on the Run‘ in Ashbery Mode, edited by Michael Farrell, Tinfish Press, 2019
Three poems , ‘Life Creep’, ‘Bear the Sky’ and ‘Fractoidal’, in otoliths, 2019
‘Life Stream’ in Sick Leave Journal, 2019
‘Petty Testament‘ in Stilts, 2019
‘Mangled, or Yet Another Hierarchical Official Oracle‘ in Cordite, 2019
‘Therefore Wherefore Should One Use The Question Mark‘ in Stilts, 2019
‘Vague, or I Can’t Explain it Any Other Way‘, shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, first published in ‘Tribulations from the Digital Frontier’, Overland Literary Journal, 2018
‘Argo Notes‘ in Cordite, 2018
‘Feel Like I’m Somehow Related to Everyone on the Internet‘ in Cordite, 2018
‘In Memory of My Furlings‘ in Past Simple, 2018
Two poems, ‘[Redacted]’ and ‘Occupy the Sky’, in Ibis House/Subbed In, 2018
‘Cultivate a New Foot‘ in Australian Poetry Anthology 2018, and in The Lifted Brow, 2016
‘Apropos of Nothing, I’ in Marrickville Pause, 2018
‘Memememememememememe‘ in Marrickville Pause, 2018
‘Or‘ in Plumwood Mountain, 2018
‘Awks’ in Plumwood Mountain, 2017
‘Poetry is 99% Water‘ in Red Room Poetry, 2017
‘The Left Hand of Dankness‘ in Cordite, 2017
‘Deep Cut of The Waste Land, or An Alternative to “Death by Water”‘ in Southerly Journal, 2017
‘All the Skies Above Girls on the Run‘ and ‘And Aesthetic Chills is Their Name’ in Journal of Poetics Research, 2016
Selections from
ILL LIT POP (2018):
‘Born to Creep‘, originally published as a PDF chapbook illustrated by Catherine Vidler, Stale Objects dePress, 2018
8 poems from ILL LIT POP, including ‘Mixed Modern Love’, in otoliths, 2018
‘Evening of the Bot Man’ in The Clambake: Cuplet Anthology, Puncher & Wattmann, 2018
‘Torn & Straight Lines‘ in Pink Cover Zine, 2018
‘Lippy Mirrorball‘ in Southerly Journal, 2018
‘Sferics‘ in Red Room Poetry, 2018
‘Mixed Modern Love‘ in Flash Cove, 2018
‘Thylacine Song‘ in Plumwood Mountain, 2017
‘Illiterature‘ in Cordite, 1 February 2017
Selections from
The Bloomin’ Notions of Other & Beau (2016):
Five poems and recordings from The Bloomin’ Notions of Other & Beau in ‘States of Poetry’ anthology, Australian Book Review, 2016
‘After the Orgy‘ in Cordite, 2016, and then in The Brooklyn Rail, 2016
Two poems, ‘After the Orgy’ and ‘Gen Y’, in The Brooklyn Rail, 2016
‘Villboard‘ in Southerly Journal, 2016
‘Janus‘, shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in Australian Book Review, May 2015, and in Best Australian Poems 2016
‘Louvres’, ‘Villainesque²’, and ‘In Fancy’ in Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry, Giramondo Publishing/Tuumba Press, 2016
‘In Fancy‘, Poem of the Week in Australian Book Review, 2016
Four poems, ‘Sits to Reason’, ‘Misty Tour’, ‘Yawny Air’ and ‘Bummer’ in Suburban Review, 2016
‘Fey‘ in Australian Book Review, 2016
‘Barbed’ in Writing to the Wire, UWAP, 2016
‘Turn Your Head & Cough‘ in Meanjin, 2015
2 poems with collages, ‘Parōidia’ and ‘Ponce’ in VLAK #5, 2015
Three Inversion of Rimbaud, ‘On Gwass’, ‘A Diva’s Fate’ and ‘Devolutions’ in otoliths, 2015
‘Gah!’ in The Age, 2015
‘Villainesque²‘ in Cordite, 2015
‘Vague Bonds‘ in Prelude and Plumwood Mountain, 2015
‘The Department‘ in Plumwood Mountain, 2015
‘Metrophobia‘ in Plumwood Mountain, 2015
‘Aphasia‘ in Plumwood Mountain, 2015
‘Orb‘ in Cordite, 2015
‘Flooze‘ in Australian Poetry Journal, 2014
‘Ten poems‘ in Journal of Poetics Research, 2014
Two poems, ‘Royally’ and ‘Pro Me The Us’, in Communion, 2014
‘Marooned‘ in Cordite, 2014
‘Valleys‘ in Best Australian Poems 2013, and in Poem and Dish, 2015
‘Rock Bottom‘ (or later ‘Bummer’) in Cordite, 2013
‘Missing Scène(s)’ in Australian Poetry Journal 3.2, 2013
Selections from
Jerilderies (2014):
‘from Jerilderies‘ in otoliths, 2014
‘from Jerilderies‘ in Southerly Journal, 2014
Selections from
Rawshock (2012):
‘Finding H’ in Contemporary Australian Poetry, Puncher & Wattmann, 2016
‘Rawshock‘ in Meanjin and Drunken Boat, 2012
‘Oscillations‘, shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, in Australian Book Review, 2012, and then in Poem and Dish, 2015
‘Sonar‘, in Overland, 2012
‘The Living Daylights’, ‘Dyslexic’, ‘Library Animals’, ‘Blackout’, ‘Spine’ and ‘Fluff’ in Red Room Poetry, 2005-12
‘nightcap‘ in Black Rider, 2012
‘La Fée Verte‘ in The Weekend Australian, and then in Best Australian Poems 2012
‘Fluff‘ in Red Room Poetry, and then in Best Australian Poems 2011
‘On the Slink‘, highly commended in the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition, 2011, and in Poem and Dish, 2015
‘Parallels‘ in Southerly Journal, 2011, and in Poem and Dish, 2015
‘Aubade‘ in Meanjin, 2011
‘Mannequins‘ in FourW, 2011
‘Emotion Sickness‘ in Snorkel, 2011
‘Winded on a Trampoline‘ in Visible Ink, 2011
‘Last Night I Lay Awake‘, winner 3rd place in the Fish Publishing International Poetry Prize, 2010
‘Beelines‘ in the Paradise Anthology, and highly commended in the Brisbane-Reason Poetry Prize, 2010
Two poems, ‘Narrows’ and ‘Irritations’ in otoliths, 2010
‘Floe‘ in Meanjin, 2007
‘The River Seine‘ in Southerly, 2007
‘Cavernous‘ in Space, 2006
Two poems, ‘sortie’ (later ‘Narrows’) and ‘Inter Alios’, in Literature & Aesthetics, 2005
‘Reaching Out‘ in UTS Writers’ Anthology, 2005
Selections from
Everyday Static (2010):
‘Tangents‘, ‘Everyday Static‘, ‘Junction‘ and ‘Dyslexic‘, 2010
‘Meanwhile‘ in The Sun Herald and Red Room Poetry, 2010, and originally in Meanjin, 2005
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Uncollected published poems:
‘Poem on Wind and Trees (in Four Sentences)’, fourW 33, November 2022
‘Moons‘ in ‘What I’m Reading’, Meanjin blog, 18 November 2021
‘After the Flood’, a translation of Rimbaud’s ‘Après le Déluge’, in Ashbery Mode, edited by Michael Farrell, Tinfish Press, 2019
‘Alchemical‘, with Kate Middleton, in Cordite, 31 January 2013
‘Toby Fitch translates Arthur Rimbaud‘ in Mascara Literary Review, 2012
‘The 15 Great Dog Pisses of Paris‘ in Cordite, 1 August 2012
‘Coverage‘ in Swamp, 2011
Three poems in Mascara Literary Review, 1 January 2010
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