Dominic Symes

http://www.domsymes.com

Dominic Symes has had poetry published in Voiceworks, Award Winning Australian Writing (2016), Coldnoon (India), and Broadsheet (New Zealand). His reviews and criticism have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide and curator of ‘NO WAVE’, a reading series commencing in mid-2018.

'July Poem' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two

States of Poetry South Australia - Series Two • 20 February 2018

how strange and Viennese you are today Adelaidelike the skating rink in front of the Rathausplatz here I am finding it hard to stay upright tooevery step I take is cautiousambulant still movingI wonder if it’s a frozen riverthat I’m skating on the Blue Danubeor a sm ... (read more)

'Things I Know to be True' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two

States of Poetry South Australia - Series Two • 20 February 2018

Eating a burrito in the Festival Theatre foyer hair in a half-up half-downWatching umbrellas & people blow through the door looking for E and her motherAre they wearing furs? Where are they? E loves the theatre doesn’t come lateTwo girls walk past in Year 12 jumpers & I never went to my five-year reunionHung up these portraits on the wall have no n ... (read more)

'Poem for A' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two

States of Poetry South Australia - Series Two • 20 February 2018

I sit with you and watch you smoke cigarettes in front of meyou take photographs but not here not of meI didn’t ask for sugar in my coffee but I didn’t return it eitherwhen the bus leaves you will be on it when the sky opens you will be beneath itone day in the future we will agree on something &nb ... (read more)

'The Madness of the Day' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two

States of Poetry South Australia - Series Two • 20 February 2018

after ‘Dug and Digging With’ – AEAF, July/August 2016 Looking forward to seeing you all day& arriving at the crowded gallery steps I say ‘this gallery is full of the same peopledesperate to see something different’ but I don’t really believe this I mean I amonly here to see you & like this room is lit j ... (read more)

'Minor Seconds' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two

States of Poetry South Australia - Series Two • 20 February 2018

Listening to my own listless heart beating & youbeside me I discover we are minor seconds aparttragic-chromatic but if subtle harmony does existit’s a three-year-old playing fists palms & elbowswe manage to stay out of each other’s way mostlysave for collateral clashes/catastrophes: collisions& rhythms? look at this ventricular wall I put upmeaning: I stay r ... (read more)