Lament
Here is a poem I wrote a couple of months ago amidst the endless stream of…
Poem: No Markers
Here is another poem, belonging in my Dr Cogito series, if without any direct naming of…
Dr Cogito’s Fall
Here is another in the series of poems featuring Dr Cogito that I have been writing….
The Chinese Ancients
I have had a dry spell the last few days, and so have dug into my…
The book of my soul
Image source:Â Gitksan woman Shaman and Chief, Kispiox, British Columbia, 1909, by George Thornton Emmons Collection no….
Wasting time on conceptual poetry
I borrowed from my local public library Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton anthology (2nd edition), edited…
The Great Confinement
Image Source: photograph, Sarah Lee, Bethlem Museum of the Mind exhibition, The Guardian From Keats, Hyperion: Just…
Dr Cogito’s Rebellion
The following poem I composed in the last year, and takes up in an over-educated time…
Thomas Bernhard’s soliloquies
Looking around my study this morning for a prompt for a post, still with the idea…
The nobility of poetry and a normal life
Yesterday I visited the State Library of Victoria and there I read from the Collected Poetry…