Poems
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2025
Documentary Poem with Bush Branch Handrails, Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound. Volume 7, Centre for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard.
(Peripheries Volume 7 was launched at Cambridge, Harvard, on 1 May, 2025)
Self-Portrait as a Merkin, produced as part of a Castlemaine Fringe Festival ekphrastic workshop held in March 2025 at Sac ‘O’ Suds Laundromat, Castlemaine, led by Bonny Cassidy: https://www.bonnycassidy.com/past-events/public-poetry
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2022-2024
Night Music Under the Sign of the Platypus, Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, Hunter Writers Centre,98-101. 2024.
Bone Lanterns with Coda in D Major, Rabbit: A Journal for Nonfiction Poetry, Issue 39: The Mutiny Issue, co-edit. Jennifer Compton & Joan Fleming, 52-53., 2024.
Poem in asymmetric transparency, Overland: 252, p.36, 2024.
Poem approaching the possible, Australian Poetry Members Anthology, Vol 11, p. 100-101, 2024,
Poem with vertical viewfinder, after Vivian Maier, Overland, November 2023
Poem in rotating spheres
Australian Poetry Anthology, Guest Editors Peter Boyle and Rae White, Vol 10, p.75. 2023,
foame: it’s poerty
foame: it’s poerty
Poem whose semiotics of arrival
foame: it’s poerty
Hope 2022 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology, eds. Robert H. F. Carver and Margot Hillel OAM, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, pp. 117-118.
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2021
Poem whose semiotics of arrival
Best of Australian Poems 2021, Guest Editors Ellen Van Neerven & Toby Fitch, p. 169.Breath
’Breath” and a written reflection on its inception in This Gift, This Poem, Puncher & Wattmann, 2021, p. 104-105.Signs
Grieve: Stories and Poems of Grief and Loss, Volume 9, Hunter Writers Centre: NSW, 2021, p. 27.Winner of the Blue Knot Foundation Award
Poem whose touch of river approaches
Grieve: Stories and Poems of Grief and Loss, Volume 9, Hunter Writers Centre: NSW, 2021, p.60.Poem whose volume contains attenuated pause Cordite Poetry Review.
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2020
Questions
NZ Poetry Shelf, Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: two poems from Shari Kocher.Have you got your Action plan ready?
NZ Poetry Shelf, Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: two poems from Shari Kocher. -
2019
Alphabet Unskinned: a ReaderSoft Serve: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, 2019, Newcastle: Hunter Writers Centre and The University of Newcastle, 2019,136-146.
Ode to My Father’s FeetSoft Serve: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, 2019, Newcastle: Hunter Writers Centre and The University of Newcastle, 2019, 90-92.
I am a little eye breakingGrieve: Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss, Vol 7, Newcastle: Hunter Writer’s Centre, 2019, 88.
Ode to EarthPlumwood Mountain: an Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, Vol 6. No 1, 2019.
One InfinityWesterly, 64.1, 2019, 135.
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2018
Ode to ‘Black Abstraction’ with Sappho in Translation University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize Anthology.
Notes on a Sunday night before sleeping Plumwood Mountain: an Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, Vol 5 No 2, 2018.
Black Door with Snow Australian Poetry Journal, Vol 6, 2018, 26.
Black Door with Snow Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2018, Aesthetica Magazine, York: UK, 2018, 38.
In the Rothko Room at the Tate Australian Poetry Journal, Vol 7: no 2, 2018, 51.
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2017
Forty Desert Days and Nights in White The Crows in Town: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, 2017, 16-21.
Live recording 9 November 2020 via facebookBlack Door with Snow Australian Book Review, June-July 2017, 62.
As We Spiral Pine Tree Mountain Transnational Literature, Vol.9 no.2, May 2017.
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2016
Fritter the fat then fry it The Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, Bonny Cassidy and Jessica L. Wilkinson (Eds), Hunter Publishers, St. Lucia: Qld, 2016, 64-7.
The Girl in the Mirror Southerly, 76: 2, 2016, 198.
The Glimpse Meniscus, 4.2, 2016, 3.
clove floating in purple corn juice Going Down Swinging, 37, 2016, 49.
San Pedro Market Australian Poetry Journal, Volume 6 Issue 1, 2016, 78.
Foxstruck Best Australian Poems 2016, Ed. Sarah Holland-Batt, 2016, 112.
An Extract from the Verse Novel, Sonqoqui: ‘The Offering’, ‘Meeting La Nina del Reyo’, ‘Thicker than Blood”Transnational Literature, Vol. 8 no. 2, May 2016.
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2015
The Non-Sequitur of Snow
Published in Abridged, 0 to 25 Silence.Foxstruck
Australian Poetry Journal, Volume 5 Issue 2, 2015, 112.
Live recording 12 November 2020 via facebook.Two Blue-Black Crows
Connective Tissue: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2015, Hunter Writers Centre, 2015, 25-26.Skeleton Woman Writes a Letter
Connective Tissue: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2015, Hunter Writers Centre, 2015, 121-126.Goat’s Cheese with Rosemary and Honey on Toast on a Sunday Morning
Underneath: The University of Canberra’s International Poetry Prize 2015, University of Canberra, 2015, 22.Errancy: A Primer, after Emily Dickinson
Verge 2015: Errance, Eds. Joan Fleming and Anna Jaquiery, 2015, 79-82.gratitude
Prayers of a Secular World, Inkerman & Blunt, Eds. Jordie Albiston and Kevin Brophy, Intro. David Tacey, 2015, 44-45.Preparing for Mt. Llullaillaco: Extract from Part II of the Verse Novel Sonqoqui: ‘Unwritten Field Notes: Peru & Argentina, 1998-1999
Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Biography Part 1, Ed. Jessica Wilkinson, Vol 15, 2015, 104-113. -
2014
Facing the Llullaillaco Maiden Published in Meanjin, Vol. 73 No. 3 (Spring) 2014, 78-81.
the sweetness of rainTruth or Beauty: Poetry and Biography, Helen Rickerby: Victoria University of Wellington, 2014, 25.
neither you, neither me Plumwood Mountain, 1.2. 2014.
Travelogue through time Cordite Poetry Review 45: Silence. 2014.
The navel of the world Cordite Poetry Review 45: Silence. 2014.
She Memory Weaving, Montrose: Poetica Christi Press, 2014, 75.
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2013
my singing empty hands
Best Australian Poems 2013, Ed. Lisa Gorton. Collingwood: Black Inc. 103-104.The Star in the Snow
Australian Poetry Members’ Anthology 2013, Ed. Jessica Friedmann, Dennis Haskell, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 2013, 78-79. -
2012
The Bridge Featured in Meanjin, Volume 71 Number 1, 2012, p. 18-19.
my singing empty hands Cordite 40.0: Interlocutor. Nov 2012.
Bellbird Gully Overland. 208. 2012. p. 92.
The Non-Sequitur of Snow Abridged 0-25:Silence. 2012. p.26.
Cannibals at Dinner in Formal Attire Abridged 0-25:Silence. 2012. p. 45.
The well from which she turns to look Metabolism: Australian Poetry Members Anthology 2012. 2012. 48-50.
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2011
my singing empty hands
2nd Prize Melbourne Poetry Union Competition, 2011
Published in Cordite, 2012 -
2010
Blue Irises Blue Dog. 8:18. 2010. 36.
The Picnic Swamp Writing. Issue 6 online. 2010.
Dromcloc House Island Magazine. Issue 123. 2010. 76-77.
Horse Skull Dreaming Going Down Swinging. Issue 30. 2010. 49-51.
Breakfast at Full Tide Island. 120: Autumn. 2010. 108.
Dreaming in Auslan Page Seventeen. Issue8. 2010. 19-20.
Suburban Song Cycle Island. 120: Autumn 2010. 108.
The Scent, the Scent Meanjin. 2: Winter.2010. 222-3.
Daughter Poem Famous Reporter. Vol 40. 2010.178-79.
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2009
Inside the Toorak Flower Shop
SWAMP Writing. Issue 4. 2009. online -
2008
Clay
Blue Dog. 7:13. 2008. 5.Loneliness
Famous Reporter. 36. 2008. 80-81.‘Bread’, ‘Popcorn’, ‘The Stars are Expressions of Love’.
The Cows Were Here the Whole Time. 2008. 46-48. -
2006
Snapshots of an Irish Immigrant in Reverse
Blue Dog. 5:10. 2006. 13-15.Canal Song
Blue Dog. 5:10. 2006. 31. -
2003
Spoons
Blue Dog. 2:4. 2003. 37.A Letter to Dorothy Hewett
Blue Dog. 2:3. 2003. 36-38.from Unborn Child
Crossing the Lino: The Wollongong Poetry Anthology. 2003. 38-9. -
2002
Unborn Child
Blue Dog. 1:2, 2002. 30-34.Fathers
Blue Dog. 1:2, 2002. 69-70. -
1997
A Letter To Denise Levertov
Overland. 148, 1997. 24.