This year has been a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world, with some 40 million people having contracted the virus to date and in excess of 1 million people having died. In April 2020, as the pandemic spread from country to country, Muse-Pie Press sought to create a world-wide community… Read More Pandemic: A Community Poem
Each year since 2015, the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra has run the five-day poetry festival, Poetry on the Move. Normally, the festival includes workshops, panel discussions, poet interviews, symposium papers and, of course, poetry readings. Sadly, COVID-19 has meant Poetry on the Move cannot go ahead in its usual format… Read More Poetry on the Move: 2020
Issue #13 of the Communion Arts Journal is now available online. Communion is produced by Jane Williams and Ralph Wessman from Walleah Press, an independent literary publisher based in Tasmania. The current issue offers a selection of poetry, stories and essays from Australian and overseas writers. Among them is my poem, Grown-Grey Eyes. Grown-Grey Eyes… Read More Communion Arts Journal: Issue #13
The widely-read New Zealand journal, Kokako, publishes haiku, tanka, haibun and related forms. As usual, the most recent issue (#32) includes writing from New Zealand and around the world. This issue of Kokako includes a poem of mine titled, Night Sky, which is written in the form of a haiku shuffle. In an earlier post,… Read More Kokako #32: Night Sky
Creatrix is an online poetry journal run by West Australian Poets Inc. (WA Poets). Each quarter, Creatrix publishes haiku and longer poems in two separate volumes. Three of my haiku, including this one, appeared in the most recent issue, Creatrix #48: summer’s end I take another plum from the fridge For me, this haiku… Read More Creatrix #48
Since 2016, WA Poets Inc (based in Perth, Western Australia) has conducted the Ros Spencer Poetry Contest. Having run the contest for several years, the organisers produced an anthology in late 2019 containing poems from all four contests to date. Brushstrokes, the Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology 2016-19, presents poems selected by Dennis Haskell and Rose… Read More Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology
Three Canberra poets presented their work at Manning Clark House (MCH) on Thursday 27 June 2019. MCH is a not-for-profit organisation supporting history, literature, culture and human rights. The house was formerly the home of eminent Australian historian, Professor Manning Clark (1915-1991). Clark’s great work was his six volume study, A History of Australia. Nowadays,… Read More Poetry at Manning Clark House
Sydney poet, Tricia Dearborn, and myself will be reading at Smith’s Alternative in Canberra on Monday, 29 April 2019. Smith’s is a great venue for poetry and the event gets underway around 7pm. Tricia will be launching her third full-length collection of poetry, Autobiochemistry, published by University of Western Australia Publishing. The book will be… Read More Tricia Dearborn and Gregory Piko to read at Smith’s Alternative
Gregory Piko 