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Warning for developing minds: this site contains a few poems that use 'swear' words or relate to sex or other 'adult themes'.
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I love you just the same

2014-12-202010-06-04

Mouth full of worlds
Eyes full of swords
Eyes full of eyes,
       full of creeping lies
             and peeping ties
             and paintings,
injured bloody paintings
Nevertheless…

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Categories 1991-95
karri tree
Instrument

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Events

  • Creative Writing, Far North REAP, Kaitaia, 16 March 2022

    Creative writing at Far North REAP in Kaitaia, 16 March. Come and write with me! Express yourself freely in a safe, supportive group.

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  • Poetry Zoom: Aussie and UK Poets Showcase with Jackson, Coral Carter, Dorothea Smartt and many more supporting feature Sarah Holland-Batt

    Poetry Zoom! Poets from across the UK and Australia share their courageous connections with land and people through poetry. Sunday 10 October 2021 on Zoom 10:30am UK Time (UTC+1; Perth 5.30pm; Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart 8.30pm; New Zealand 10:30pm) Book on EventBrite Find out more on Facebook The featured reader, Sarah Holland-Batt, is one of Australia’s most respected contemporary poets. Supporting readers: Jackson, Coral Carter, Sundra Lawrence, Dorothea Smartt, J V Birch, Yvonne Patterson, Patricia Foster McKenley, Anjan Saha, Helena Steel, Cath Drake, Rita Tognini, Tineke Van Der Eecken, Mala Anthony-Ranu, Kathy Armstrong. Book on EventBrite Find out more on Facebook

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  • Poets Corner online 25 October 2020 features Jackson and Sean M Whelan

    Poets Corner (Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia) have kindly invited me to share some poems in October alongside their poet laureate Sean M Whelan. Plus open mike. Free online event. Sunday 25 October 2020. Zoom in from 4-6pm UTC+08 (Perth time) or 7-9pm Melbourne time. I’m on from 4:30 to 4:45 in Perth, or 7:30 to 7:45 in Melbourne. To get the Zoom link, email Jai at picklepoetry at outlook dot com More info on Facebook here

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  • ▿Writing
    • ▿Collected Poems
      • ▹1986-90
      • ▿1991-95
        • 1992
        • Adam
        • Bald and Hairy
        • At Rottnest
        • The Box
        • My brother is dead
        • Camping
        • A Census of Moonbeams
        • Chalk
        • Dream
        • untitled (‘I tried to get rid of my dreams’)
        • Drill
        • The Eagle
        • The Fat Bird
        • A female poem
        • Fire
        • Hasp
        • untitled (‘I hate you’)
        • I Cried
        • ignons
        • Instrument
        • I love you just the same
        • karri tree
        • Kentucky Fried God
        • Lawn
        • Loco
        • Mall
        • Martha’s Son, 1991
        • New baby
        • new kids
        • Owl, Cat, Ghost
        • untitled (‘The sadness is not his tame blue eyes’)
        • Skeleton
        • Slick
        • untitled (‘Take a stick to the truth’)
        • Sex at Sunrise
        • this rain
        • To a Word
        • Unavoidable
        • Unclamp your dreams
        • Wedding Plans
        • Willy Wagtail
        • You again
        • untitled (‘Follow me, my friend’)
      • ▹1996-2002
      • ▹2003-10, send
      • ▹2007+, connect
      • ▹2010+, look
      • ▹2011+, walk
      • ▹2013+, wait
      • ▹2015+, ashes
      • ▹2018+, China
      • ▹2020+, act
      • ▹Commissioned poems
      • ▹For children
      • ▹Occasion poems
    • ▹Non-fiction
      • ▹Commissioned non-fiction
    • ▹Songs

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