You can't get any more self-deprecating than Michel de Montaigne
This poem won the inaugural Broadway Poetry Prize. It's about my matrilineal forebears who settled around Bathurst, NSW in the 1830s and 1840s.I swim in this pool in those lunch breaks when I can be motivated enough to exercise.
These poems were inspired by the woodcut series of the same name executed by the Japanese artist Munakata Shiko in 1948.
This poem won the inaugural
Sidney Nolan Gallery Poetry Prize in 1994. When I was a small boy I used to
go and stay with relatives
who lived in a farm just outside Glenrowan. We used to do the touristy thing
even back then, see the site of the burnt down Hotel,
buy sew-on badges which said "Kelly Country". It was all already kitsch
in the 1970s, even to my childish mind.
This poem won the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize in 2003.
Published in the 2001/2002 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology Unfamiliar Tides. Peter Kirkpatrick is a good friend of mine who writes very good poetry.
This poem appears in Southerly 3, 2003. It was inspired by a series of paintings by Cath Parer, who originally had the vision of jellyfish floating through the sky... any references to any politicians living or dead are probably not as accurate as they should be.