Poems
2024
2023
2022
Night Music Under the Sign of the Platypus, Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, forthcoming
Bone Lanterns with Coda in D Major, Rabbit, Issue 39: The Mutiny Issue, co-edit. Jennifer Compton & Joan Fleming, forthcoming
Documentary Poem with Bush Branch Handrails, forthcoming (USA)
Poem in asymmetric transparency, Overland : 252, p.36
Poem approaching the possible, Australian Poetry Members Anthology, Vol 11, 2024, p. 100-101.
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, 2023, p.75.
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.
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: 2021, forthcoming. Winner of the Blue Knot Foundation Award
Poem whose touch of river approaches
Grieve: 2021, forthcoming
Poem whose volume contains attenuated pause
Cordite Poetry Review.
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 Reader
Soft Serve: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, 2019, Newcastle: Hunter Writers Centre and The University of Newcastle, 2019,136-146.
Ode to My Father’s Feet
Soft Serve: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, 2019, Newcastle: Hunter Writers Centre and The University of Newcastle, 2019, 90-92.
I am a little eye breaking
Grieve: Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss, Vol 7, Newcastle: Hunter Writer’s Centre, 2019, 88.
Ode to Earth
Plumwood Mountain: an Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, Vol 6. No 1, 2019.
One Infinity
Westerly, 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 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 rain
Truth 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. 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.
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.
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.