States of Poetry Victoria
Who are you? You hear the song, the
Good line along with the others in the
Hair salon. That place for standing in; for< ...
Strawberries: a mania of strawberries on a
Turntable
________
Like a teacup in a snowstorm I
Find you and break you. A sentry reptile, I advise you
To return quietly to the campfire. You mistakenly took
My interest in theology for a strategy
for Marcia Langton The rock-art guide, combusting Gwion rock art from the 'Tassel era' is happy art, 1. You can't see water beyond the highway hoardings, but you are told Jesus walked on it. This But you feel something pull, not daintily at your sleeve, but with tidal will, When ... Tow Lo, the cell phone sleeps in its cell. The particulars of the evening being, whether consciously 1 The sound of shovels scraping of men – the night's clinging still – Awake to this, or yet in sleep A fly is walking 2 'Ten thousand womenStates of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'Australian awe: white guys on life and art before 1788' by A. Frances Johnson
in 43 degrees, back to image.
His sloppy dreamtime
a melted ice-cream,
far from refrigerated sublime.
though contentiously attributed and dated, he says,
authoritative white sweater in white sweater.
States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'Diary of an Anti-elegist' by A. Frances Johnson
Even poetry dements in the end; fatal attractions to dank earth
and ash albums don't fool or buy time. Poetry cherry-picks
memory for its own ends; yet that's a medicated narcissism for
some. Earnest elegies are often rejected by dogs and children.
Listen to them howl. Voting for life outside of ritual.
I'm on your side; I'm with the hounds and the kids. I won ...
is your best clue. Dinner settings, security doors, Viagra and tractor parts flash past like
signed miracles.
a blood rush of stark equations of space and gravity you cannot hope to solve.Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were brought to Melbourne in 1839 by the protector of Aborigines, George Robinson, to 'civilise' the Victorian Aborigines. In late 1841, the two men and three women stole two guns and waged a six-week guerilla-style campaign in the Dandenongs and on the Mornington Peninsula, burning stations and killing two sealers. They were charged with murder ...
'The Book of Interdictions' by A. Frances Johnson | States of Poetry Vic - Series One
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come ...
Song of Solomon, Verse 11-12
The raven deactivates the horizon.
There is water for everyone,
bu ...
evoked or – 'a great shemozzle'
as Kent said –
merely one day washing over and into the depths
& ...
gravel, voices
heat
swimming
you mumble –
on your forehead
an ...