… what would the world be with us fully in it, what about the 900 petroglyphs of our embraces.

— Dionne Brand

Thank you to @foglifterpress.bsky.social for publishing this poem ‘Life, Still’, written by way of the works of Pierre Bonnard @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social in their latest issue — and for always uplifting LGBTQ+ & disabled writers & creators & for generally being belovedly queer!

I’m overjoyed & honoured to have won the Plaza Prize for Poetry judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz —whose work I adore & admire immensely. To have one’s poems read at all, let alone by one of your poet-heroes & to have them reflect so generously on the poem is a gift beyond measure.

Grateful & honoured to have a poem in the latest issue of the @theflreview.bsky.social Thank you to editor @djpoissant.bsky.social for selecting ‘Afterwords’ & to the team there for all you do. Congrats & with thanks to all the wonderful contributors in this issue.

One for the ancestors…

Delighted to have a poem in the latest issue of Cordite Poetry Review’s ‘SPACE’ issue. Huge thanks to guest-editor & very fine poet @aliciasometimes.bsky.social for selecting the poem & for such an epic issue featuring an interview with Eileen Myles 🔭🪐✨ cordite.org.au/poetry/space...

Also belatedly sharing this here. Thanks again to the generous & fine editors at @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social for selecting ‘Loneliness Was Part Of It’ for Issue Six and for choosing it from among your many poem-wonders for a Pushcart nomination. Being part of this issue was such beautiful thing.

And the second, ‘The Least Light’

[Belatedly] Now that my contributor copies have arrived, it’s nice to be able to share my first published poems which came out last year in West Branch Mag

Thanks to the magazine’s poetry editors for giving space to established + emerging poets alike.

This is the first of them, ‘Withness’

If I receive a poem contract from a lit mag and the email opens with ‘Dear Queerly Beloved’ I am basically theirs forever

A dreamy thing to be included in Best of Australian Poetry 2024 alongside so very many fine poets 👀

Deep gratitude to brilliant editor-poets Kate Lilley & Shastra Deo for such a thoughtful collection & for selecting ‘Portmanteau’, first published @themarrowpoetryjournal to sit among these poems 🙏