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‘ASIO checks destroy refugee lives’ on Socialist Alternative
Today on Socialist Alternative, my article ‘ASIO checks destroy refugee lives’ appears: At 1am on 14 May, I received a text message informing me that another refugee had attempted suicide inside...
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‘The Melbourne Poetry Scene’ on Overland
Today on the Overland blog, my post, ‘The Melbourne Poetry Scene’ talks about, well, the Melbourne poetry scene: I discovered the Melbourne poetry scene about two years ago, on a train home to Coburg...
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Bubble
Bunkered down writers inside Town Hall escape into a bubble of pure creativity, receding yet emerging without distractions Just for a short time we create a ghetto amongst traditional buildings and...
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Athenian hangover
3am reduced to clear pikelets with jam Greek elections on the tele I’d take a shot of ouzo everytime a journo tells me I’m going to go bankrupt but I can’t afford any In the morning, Greeks wake up...
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New pieces published at Overland
I’m very lucky and honoured to have two pieces published recently with the progressive literary journal, Overland – one blog post and a spoken word piece. Yesterday, the special edition, Audio Overland...
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Poem: When the end of the world comes…
When the end of the world comes there will be bastards selling merchandise desperate hawkers on the side of the road to oblivion reaching out in crashedcrushed suits selling us the nooses they make us...
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Poem: The Call of the Racist
Performed on the open mic at House of Bricks spoken word night, last night Photo by Michael ReynoldsThe racist, a flourishing species found around the world densely populated in most of Australia...
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Poem: Taksim today
Revolution is so beautiful in the present vibrant colours of people rising modern ordinary people alive without fear, new courage taking the chance, the overstepped mark and running so real very...
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Brand Fixing
For World Refugee Day, I posted a few poems by myself and others on Twitter and Facebook with the hashtags #worldrefugeeday and #poetry but here’s a new one I just wrote… In the battle of the brands...
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Poem: Lighthouse
A coast line of abandoned lighthouses, the last extinguished darkens the most. Those who come from across the seas still search for boundless plains in the absent light. Lighthouse keepers now man...
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