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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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2014-12-152013-08-31

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Categories 2010+, look
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  • So church my skull
  • owl thinking
  • Three little poems of 2010

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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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    • ▿Collected Poems
      • ▹1986-90
      • ▹1991-95
      • ▹1996-2002
      • ▹2003-10, send
      • ▹2007+, connect
      • ▿2010+, look
        • Ungainly
        • "the young policeman ..."
        • "the haiku poet ..."
        • doing
        • submissions
        • Among
        • haiku, "feet in the river..."
        • Schroedinger's cat, a limerick (with quantum mechanics pun)
        • haiku, Lake Tekapo
        • above the smog / the moon
        • lava
        • in the sydney early morning light
        • Melbourne
        • 'caught between...'
        • spring in Freo
        • A better pen
        • welcoming teeth
        • A bricklayer
        • A bookish young hipster
        • Over Heard
        • haiku, June 2012
        • closed
        • discrete
        • Dickens
        • A monkey...
        • playing
        • shot
        • sanctioned and amplified
        • Liller
        • The virtual room
        • to a certain extent
        • Two limericks about a local idEntity
        • The fringe
        • a lark
        • My lover’s hair
        • young boss
        • living shops
        • meccano mask
        • prevent cabaret
        • friendly fuel
        • a tasty pet
        • on track
        • Gripping the bark
        • in the womb room
        • To the sunshine room
        • tongue
        • necessary
        • just as if nothing
        • Sundayly
        • Dear Joe
        • The one person
        • of cut country
        • wind farm haiku
        • am I not?
        • like rhymes, tings, heartdrums
        • poems at 64
        • ARTillery
        • happy song
        • it’s my shit
        • Invited poets at the writers festival
        • Mick Jagger dream
        • Damn
        • In my secret garden
        • Foxy Lady
      • ▹2011+, walk
      • ▹2013+, wait
      • ▹2015+, ashes
      • ▹2018+, China
      • ▹2020+, act
      • ▹Commissioned poems
      • ▹For children
      • ▹Occasion poems
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      • ▹Commissioned non-fiction
    • ▹Songs

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