My poem The Really Important Stuff is in the latest issue of The Vines Leaves Literary Journal. You can read it for free here. You can also download the entire issue. My poem is the very last. It's significant. You'll see why when you read it.
It is an Australian publication, though most contributors for this issue are from the U.S.
I made this in 2005 in an attempt to land a job in a promo department at a certain TV station. (Channel 10 Sydney)
The first season had only just begun airing and I was hooked and decided to use it. I was/am an editor. I wrote the script (I believe in letting the pictures tell the story so there's not many) and had no choice but to use my own voice. I was happy with how it turned out. Nothing came of it.
I'm kind of glad. I soon left that station and wrote my first novel, Borders of Bordavia.
Coming very soon,
The first video poem of the year, This tiny fortune.
At the risk of potentially biting the hand that feeds, I wrote this poem after a period of rejections and frustration. Ironically, after I submitted it, I received a flood of acceptances. Still, the academics aren't too keen on my work so I stand by the poem. Here it is.
This is the list of my works that were published and/or accepted for publication in 2012.
I can't promise the same amount in 2013 as I hope to divert my time into a new novel. Submissions take a lot of time. It's a shame as I have a lot of work just sitting on my computer. That being said, I do have a poetry book coming out this, Caged Without Walls, through Ginninderra Press. I also wrote 211 poems for the year, which is a lot for me. I may experiment more with form this year. The work I've been doing lately seems to be different. If I do start on a novel, I'll have to scale back on the poetry. However I do hope to present a few more video poems. I have a couple ready to go. Let's see what eventuates.
My Books - Books now available to purchase from me (2021)
My quasi-experimental story City of Great Large is now online at Wilderness House Literary Review. It is the Twenty eighth issue (Volume 7, no 4). You can download the story as a PDF and read it when it suits you.
The first draft was written in 2007 while I was in China. I was in a courtyard of a temple similar to this one, (I can't remember which one as I went to so many), and feeling inspired, sat on the edge of the concrete and scribbled away.
Travelling had been difficult in terms of language. Very few spoke English and even then it was fractured, but in its own way, quite creative and unique. The story features this fractured English.
(also available to read free on my site below)
The story is quite simple, deliberately so, as the style might be difficult to read for some. A young man is forced to travel to the City to look for work, a very common practice in China and perhaps everywhere. It's not a long story so I hope you'll download it and give it a go.