Starlight Circus, Warrawong, 10 October 2018
The chicken wire holds the savannah down,
rain drips on their musty manes. Continue reading
Author: peterfrankiswrites
Summertime Sadness
a dreamy inside edge played on to
a tree full of clown-face rosellas Continue reading
A delay on the Northern Line
The Night Express slow on wintry tracks. Continue reading
the blank page
I find myself to be a dromedary
That has run short of water Continue reading
Friday favourites – 23 November 2018
Aotearoa Poet Laureate (2017-19) Selina Tusitala Marsh recently visited Australia for the 2018 Sydney Writers Festival. Here she is discussing the future of the Commonwealth (it’s kinda like the EU but with more colonial baggage) and her writing. Continue reading
The Naturalist
1. The Shore
A pelican frame,
the great wings hung, Continue reading
The New Continent
What country, friends, is this?
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc 2
another tourist-priced town,
shacks upscaled in treated pine and Colorbond® Continue reading
Elegy for the Bramble Cay Melomys
Once upon…
Once upon and
once again – Continue reading
The unrequited duet of the Pacific Koel
he calls
all night
in tones
that rise
that fall: Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 