The Best Australian Poems 2011

The front cover

You should find The Best Australian Poems 2011 because the only pub inside is the Phoenix Pub in Canberra. Once you have it take it to that pub. At the pub drink cider/beer while yelling/mumbling at the poems you don't like and yelling/mumbling the ones you do. Spill cider/beer all-over the book. Yell/mumble your own poems at the guy next to you. Have a guy recommend a rye/whiskey/rum. Offer your opinion on the rye/whiskey/rum. Get yelled at that he DOESN'T WANT YOUR FUCKING OPINION ON THE RYE/WHISKEY/RUM. You’ve lost the book. Yell/mumble more. Also I have a poem in there.

Australian poet to have words published in Australia

I have a poem due out in November with The Best Australian Poems 2011. The annual anthology is this year edited by John Tranter. He writes of his selections:  ‘What a rich, strange and diverse lot these poems turned out to be … I suspect that these baroque and potent imaginings can only have come into existence as fragments of dreams or nightmares.’

Jill Jones writes about the mix of writers appearing in this year’s anthology on her blog Ruby Street, there she puts forward that the anthology ‘picks up on work that has either been published overseas or was fresh but unpublished’ and that ‘online international venues are often where the more interesting work is being featured’ and that Australia-based poets are now not so parochial and the anthology will represent this.

The Suns Fall at Zero, first published by The Delinquent in the United Kingdom, will be in the anthology and I look forward to reading the poems it will be alongside. 

The Delinquent Issue 14 out now.

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The Delinquent Issue 14

With words and art by all these people:

Anne Blonstein, Peter LaBerge, Richard Tyrone Jones, Alan Price, Hicham Bensassi, Andrew Pidoux, Graham Buchan, DP Jones, Gareth Strachan, Nick Bridson Baker, Amit Parmessur, M. A. Schaffner, Deborah L. Gordon, Duncan Jones, Mark Antony Owen, Stephen Devereux, Paul Norcross, Geoffrey Loe, Adam Moorad, Ray Blake, Rich Ives, Valentina Cano, Beth Jellicoe, Austin Rory Hackett, John Sibley Williams, Peter Ebsworth, Carlo Taylor, Jeremy Quinn, Timothy James Earl, Brooke Persich, Henry Blake, Robert Marsland, Carl Palmer, Steve Loton, Lisa Kelly, Zin Kenter, John Thake, Tim Frank, Andrew Smith, W Oleson, Michael Pedersen, Richard Halperin, Peter Leahy, Ricky Garni, Mark Floyer, Jim Davis, KJ Moore, David Mac, Paul Birtill, Norman Staines, Charles Pitter, Robert McClure, Jason King, Bart Sonck, Steve Taylor, Alex Mahoney, Andrew Galan, Tomás Browne, Bruce Lader, Dan Piorkowski, Jim Meirose, RL Greenfield, David S. Pointer, Adam Flint, Thomas Pescatore, N. A’Yara Stein, Zoe Warren, Amy Schreibman Walter, Mel Fawcett, Christos Sakellarios, Chris Guidon, Ken Champion, Rehan Qayoom, and a cover by Denny E. Marshall.

You know you want to know them, plus I am in that list.

Words Forthcoming in the Delinquent Issue 14

The best acceptance letters.

"Good work as ever! We’re pleased to say we’ll be printing “My concept is: Homage” and “The suns fall at zero” in issue 14 of the delinquent.

Congratulations!

Air Raid - Josef Čapek

After a brief reorientation course, followed by a medical, social networks and so on, you’ll remember that here at the delinquent we pride ourselves on a mind-melding, collegiate, dynamic and motivated team-building, combined with innovative text-based solutions.

Please study your copies of the staff handbook, staff codebook and staff jokebook. Presentation skills and core competencies must be available for inspection at all times.

Etc.

Multi-disciplinary ethos.

& esteemed officers of assurance.

We were greatly impressed with your comportment, deportment, aplomb, and we hope you’ll continue to send us your work."

"My concept is: Homage" as inspired by, and translated by, Tomás Browne. Tomás is a genius poet from Chile who may be working in the garden outside your house as you read this.