Scottish-Australian poet Ali Whitelock reading her found poem – ‘this is coal don’t be afraid’. For more delights, check out her website. Ali’s poetry and my heart crumples like a coke can, 2018 and the lactic acid in the calves of your despair, 2020 are available from her publisher Wakefield Press
Author: peterfrankiswrites
Sublunary by 5
In the room
the air has sides Continue reading
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra – until May 10 2020
and regional galleries to follow* Continue reading
The afternoon storm
the sky’s a lambent column
all the way to space. Continue reading
An Autumn Day – quadrille
after Rilke
After the spoiled summer
grey grey grey
grant us, Lord, this
one honeyed hour Continue reading
The Jar on the Ground (driving south February 2020)
Mount Agony Road & Depot Beach
…the forest is cleaner, clearer, brighter
sulphur bare trunks (sprouting epiphytic green) Continue reading
The black swan at 5am
Melancholy Bay, Flinders Island
A seiche over flat water Continue reading
Jammin
(for Kathleen)
A new upwelling
overwhelms the raft of foam, darker red this time
this land is being made and re-made Continue reading
A Meditation at Breakfast
1. Egg Anatomy / Astronomy
plotted:
ironically orbits a perfect egg
Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 