Admissions: Voices within Mental Health

I have not updated my website for quite a while now, and not much since the pandemic. Firstly, the Pandemic really slowed me down, I was still writing and working but my circle of contacts really closed. Alongside that so did my reaching out, but I was still writing, performing, and working and so still getting things done artistically. Secondly, someone bought my original web address and tried to sell it to me. Once I got the site back up and running and logged in, I found a draft post underway for a publication and saw so much that I need to update. But I am back here to post about the recent publication of Admissions: Voices within Mental Health.

Admissions: Voices within Mental Health was published in October 2022 by Upswell Publishing. The anthology contains an amazing breadth of voices. I am still working my way through it. Like another anthology, Solid Air, dipping into it at random has been my approach and in doing that I have so far loved the essay, IF I SMELL GAS AND THERE IS NO GAS or AM I A PSYCHOANALYST IF I DON’T HAVE A COUCH by Pascalle Burton, and the poems Suicide Dogs by David Stavanger and Hard Pressed by Grace Tame, and Learning from Shastra Deo.

Make sure you grab a copy from Upswell Publishing, and like me, recommend it to any mental health professionals you see.

Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word

I have a poem in this forthcoming anthology from University of Queensland Press.

Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word, the title is in all caps on the cover, which is a good thing, this is what UQP have to say about it, “Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audience. Solid Air showcases the work of more than 100 performance poets - combining elements of slam, hip-hop and experimental performance poetry - to deliver an unforgettable reading experience that is both literary and loud.”

You can pre-order from the publisher as well as see some of the other names of people who have had work included, the editors are the previous Queensland Poetry Festival Directors, David Stavanger and Anne-Marie Te Whiu.

Bareknuckle Poet Annual 002 2016

Bareknuckle Poet Annual 002 2016 1st Edition 2016 Edited by Brentley Frazer & A. G. Pettet.

Pre-order at BKP!

Including work from: Hasti Abbasi, Venero Armanno, Mandy Beaumont, John Birmingham, David Ades, John Ashbery, Peter Bakowski, Bill Berkson, Ashley Elizabeth Best, Robbie Coburn, Deborah Conway, Stuart Cooke, Brett Dionysius, Michael Dransfield, Liam Ferney, Cal Freeman, Andrew Galan, Amy Hempel, Matt Hetherington, Rose Hunter, Lachlan Jarrah, John Kinsella, Robert Lort, Sophie MacNeill, Margaret Malone, Ian McBryde, Frank O’Hara, Chuck Palahniuk, Angela Peita, Laura Ellen Scott, Tom Shapcott, Tom Spanbauer, David Stavanger, Mark Terrill, Samuel Wagan Watson, John Wainwright, Ashleigh Watson, Edward Willes, Ouyang Yu + more

Support a Poet: Eve's Harvest out now

Eve's Harvest has been published by Lip Magazine. 
Edited by Canberra's Zoya Patel and Michelle Lovi the anthology includes the poem 
The House Was Built, one of three peices written by me for Tableaux Vellum. 

Follow this link to purchase a copy: Eve's Harvest.