Poems

  • 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

  • 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,

    Poem in rotating spheres

    foame: it’s poerty

    Poem on being out of line

    foame: it’s poerty

    Poem whose semiotics of arrival

    foame: it’s poerty

    Poem with bent interior

    Hope 2022 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology, eds. Robert H. F. Carver and Margot Hillel OAM, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, pp. 117-118.

  • 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.

  • 2020

    Questions
    NZ Poe
    try 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 facebook

    Black Door with Snow Australian Book Review, June-July 2017, 62.

    As We Spiral Pine Tree Mountain Transnational Literature, Vol.9 no.2, May 2017. 

  • 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.

  • 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 201
    5: 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.

  • 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. 2012p.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.

  • 2011

    my singing empty hands
    2nd Prize Melbourne P
    oetry 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.

  • 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.

This collection continues to grow slowly and intuitively, shaped by time, place and the rhythms of possibility.