Tag: Stepping Over Seasons
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2006 : 2016 (a ‘least worst of’)
The ego of it, right? Of course there’s got to be at least some involved any time I post, since the very act of sharing my stuff implies that I think it doesn’t suck. Well, with that in mind, I’ve recently released 2006 : 2016. In this collection, I’ve tried to cobble together 116 or…
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New Cover for Stepping Over Seasons
As I mentioned not long ago, the sad news around funding for the Arts in Australia right now has impacted a lot of great journals and presses, one of which being IP, who published Stepping Over Seasons for me. Due to this, I’ve taken on SOS myself and wanted to share a mock-up for the…
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Stepping Over Seasons – Reissue
Hi everyone – just a quick e-mail to let you know that with the sad news of IP being forced to reduce their publishing operations, my second poetry collection Stepping Over Seasons will now be reissued this year (late). It’ll involve some minor updates and a few small ‘extras’ that I hope will be interesting!…
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6 Years, Cripes!
Six years since I registered with – feels like a whirlwind 🙂 Really enjoyed the blog and despite some big patches of low activity, I feel like I’ve put some good stuff out there and hopefully folks have had a good time reading! Here’s a poem from back in 2009: small town has an…
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March Poetry Sale (and fiction)!
Let’s have a bit of a sale! For the rest of March, signed copies of all my poetry collections are on sale (and my fiction titles too) so if you’d like to grab some poetry for cheap let me know here or send me an e-mail 🙂 mountain0ash[at]gmail[dot]com (that’s a ‘zero’ in the address) …
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Poem from ‘Stepping Over Seasons’
Jumping to 2009, when stepping over seasons came out, I’m struck by big changes in length and theme. I think SOS spans the widest set of topics I’ve written on in a single collection (so far) and I realise, with a bit of…
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Bianca
Commended a few years ago in the Melbourne Poets Union poetry comp, here’s one of my poems from Stepping Over Seasons – Bianca, hope you enjoy it! bianca on the bus two girls talk baby names. bianca is popular and I wonder if they know it’s italian for ‘white’ and if they do which ‘white’…
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eastern avenue
First published on the Collected Works poetry & ideas blog, here’s a short poem from 2008! eastern avenue moon’s hangover hits the street in a splash of white, outside the window the transformer is like a gargoyle, sitting halfway up the electricity pole, either too old or too lazy to climb higher.
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Looking back, two ‘old’ poems
I just received news that Westerly has a new website (and it’s great too) which includes digital downloads of back issues! I love that they’ve chosen to do this and thought I’d also share a link to Issue 54:1 (July 2009) which featured one of my poems on p158, The Jacket (the poem which closes…
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between giants – blog launch – day five
Welcome to the last day of my blog launch! It’s been five days of poetry, poetry, poetry and I’m grateful to everyone who visited, commented, contacted me or ordered the book, and I’m most definitely grateful to Graham, Jane, Robbie and Mark, along with Alec Patric and also Stephen Matthews from Ginninderra Press whose fantastic…
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