List of Poems

To facilitate the finding of specific poems in the archives, below are the short titles of my poems as published at this site with their date of posting (month/year). This list does not include my translations of German poets, some of which you can also find at my other blog Passing On the Flame.

The Poet of Silence 05/24

How the Great Palaver began 05/24

After all 04/24

Freight trains, jet engines, chansons 04/24

Small sartori 03/24

Just Sitting 03/24

Views from Trains 03/24

Great Southern Line 03/24

Bundanoon Primitive Methodists 02/24

Sonetto da capo con brio 02/24

Threads 02/24

Poverty Sonnet 01/24

Warmth. Four Domestic Odes after Pablo Neruda 12/23

Winter Walk 12/23

Winter’s blade 12/23

Perhaps one morning 11/23

A Quickening in the Emptiness 11/23

Early Mornings with Oliver, One 10/23

The Way the Sky 10/23

Beggars 09/23

Negotiating the Castle, 6 am 09/23

And now this 09/23

Emotion as seen from the Motionless 07/23

Nonet on a killing in the garden 07/23

Narooma 06/23

Fishermen’s Wharf Bermagui 06/23

Tilba District Cemetery 06/23

1080 Beach 06/23

Vulnerable 05/23

A Ukrainian Soldier’s Questions … 04/23

The Black Soils of Hades 04/23

On hearing she would not be coming… 04/23

Skin-water 03/23

(No) Goodbye to Poetry 03/23

Seeing the Unseeable Sea 03/23

New Year’s Day 02/23

The Stove’s Secret 02/23

The (dis)order of trees 01/23

Spring Westerlies 12/22

Calavera 12/22

Katoomba Street 10/22

Big Mama Eva Lution looks in the mirror 10/22

Screens 09/22

The silence 09/22

I to I 08/22

The Empty Space 08/22

Winter Winds 2014 07/22

Sparrow 07/22

Through the Mirror 06/22

Out of Nothingness 04/22

Watch this Space 03/22

Notes on Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics 03/22

Live downdates from Con Satyricon 03/22

Play Power 02/22

In a cafe thinking of Blake 01/22

Two more triolets 12/21

Smiley Faces 12/21

Pulchritude, blah blah blah 12/21

Six Triolets in a Time of Plague 11/21

Going with the Wind 11/21

Tragedy requires some degree of complicity … 10/21

August Haiku 09/21

It’s a Doggerel’s Life 08/21

Home and Away 06/21

How strange it is 05/21

Poem ending with a line by Bodhidharma 05/21

Wisdom of the Body 05/21

Who am I, or why all language is a beautiful lie 04/21

Diminuendo 04/21

Water Frontage. 10 Haiku 04/21

Don’t know when it started 02/21

Atlas turns off the light     02/21

The Sound of One Hand Clapping   01/21

The Hands that Made Us   01/21

Hegel’s Last System  12/20

The Stones of Venice  12/20

The Gateless Gate     12/20

The Love Apophatic 10/20

Billy 09/20

Max 07/20
Inside out 06/20
Song of the Open Road 05/20
Cruise Ship 05/20
Dopo Mine[d 05/20
Pavement Poems 05/20
For the Compassionate Ones 04/20
The Holding 04/20
Home again, naturally 04/20
Room in Moonlight 03/20
Seven Types of Paradox 03/20
After yet another warning … 03/20
Rain Dance Haiku 02/20
Fire Siege Haiku 02/20
Fire 01/20
Oz Ragnaroek          01/20

At least Nero stuck around… 12/19
Fox guarding at dusk 12/19
Innocence Eternal: In Passing 11/19
Peace 11/19
Burning Truth 11/19
Flickering 10/19
Ode of the Unknown Man 07/19
Walking down main street… 07/19
I spent the night with my I… 06/19
Well, Yes and No 04/19
Here it is now 04/19
Three/Four Haiku 03/19
Three Haiku 03/19
Dog Days 01/19

Premonitions 11/18
Glossy Black Cockatoo 11/18
How to Use Kookaburras 09/18
Why your ego is like a fingernail 08/18
On the hottest midwinter day on record 08/18
Beyond Recognition 07/18
Grandfather 07/18
Liar Bird 07/18
Descartes 06/18
Aristotle 06/18
No Axe for Kafka 06/18
Straya 05/18
A poet is 04/18
The Seed 03/18
The Dragon who became a Prince 03/18
Chronicle of the Ongoing Ruins 03/18
The Flight of Little Boy 02/18
Meet Evo and Eva 01/18

Found by the Wayside 12/17
Sky, a love poem 12/17
Those Horses by the Sea 12/17
Anthem 11/17
Kronstadt 1921 10/17
On Being Asked for Marriage Advice 09/17
We spend a lifetime losing… 08/17
So this is what it feels like 07/17
Windows of landscape & light 07/17
The Knee Monologues 06/17
Preliminary Notes for a Young Poet 05/17
The Ratio of Female Beauty… 05/17
Tellumbuggerum Farm Tour 04/17
Infinite Wealth 04/17
Three Elegies for the Unknown Man 04/17
We remember the rise and fall 03/17
The Kiss 03/17
Scene Change 03/17
And suffers and pains 02/17
Once upon a Timeless 02/17
Haiku of Innocence & Experience 02/17
Honika, or the Politics of Warmth 01/17
Anti-National Anthem 01/17

Reading an Aquarium 12/16
poetics of spirit, a manifesto 12/16
Out of the Blue (i.m. Dave Dowsett) 11/16
Wild Apple 10/16
The Four Ages – Earth Time 10/16
The Four Ages – Water Time 10/16
The Four Ages – Fire Time 10/16
The Four Ages – Air Time 09/16
On Re-Reading Milton 09/16
Democracy of Silence 09/16
wet footpath haiku 08/16
What I saw when the aliens… 08/16
Herons in the morning light 08/16
Return (after Tao Yuan-ming) 07/16
Some things that get me through 07/16
Solstice 06/16
The Many Moods of Mr Mojo 06/16
Animal Anarchists of the Atomic Age 06/16
Clever Poems, Wise Poems 05/16
A Thousand K from the Capital 05/16
Selfie 05/16
What Would They Know 05/16
Early Morning Notes… 05/16
Trailing clouds of glory 04/16
Silent Hope Triptych 04/16
Slow god seascape 04/16
nothing special 03/16
Twenty animals you must see… 03/16
Winter Waves 02/16
whence 02/16
Gothic 02/16
No One’s Dark House 01/16
Guide to a Lonely Planet 01/16
New Year Eternities 01/16
Planet Dirt: The Excremental Vision 01/16

We’re all going on a summer holiday 12/15
No Back to the Ocean 12/15
B-grade Celluloid 12/15
Thank you for helping us… 11/15
Sky Prayer 10/15
The Joy of Nothingness 10/15
Sense of a Century 08/15
We spend a lifetime… 08/15
Dollars and Tanks 07/15
Rhapsody on the Upholding One 06/15
Two Hotline Poems 06/15
The Good Oil of Reading 05/15
Love Poem 05/15
Is poetry a search engine 05/15
i-catechism 04/15
Whoopee 03/15
The Great Tree of Poetry 03/15
Nocturne 03/15
The Slap of History. A Movie 02/15

The News 12/14
floating 12/14
When evening falls 11/14
The Ceiling 11/14
Manifesto for… 09/14
Ode to My Pants 08/14
Ode to our Stove 08/14
Ode to My Boots 08/14
The more I had the less I was 08/14
Double-Barrelled Antiphon 08/14
For God’s Sake 08/14
the manifestist manifesto 07/14
The Theology of Los Alamos 07/14
Mug Shot 07/14
Isaiah’s Red 07/14
Caught in Golden Amber 06/14
The Black Flag 05/14
Bucketed 05/14
That Other Flesh 05/14
The weight it ways 05/14
Because 04/14
Marx, as Usual 04/14
Concrete Poem 03/14
Within the Wind’s Silent Spaces 03/14
Apple Orchard as Conceptual Art 03/14
German Colours 03/14
In the forest 03/14
Chronicle of the Ongoing Ruins 02/14
The Poet 01/14

A short eschatology 12/13
That Other Real 12/13
The Quest 12/13
Life between Disney and Mengele 11/13
Sulphur-crested cockatoos 10/13
One of those mornings 10/13
Celebrating Billy 08/13
It wasn’t like this… 08/13
OMG LOL!!! 07/13
Lullaby 06/13
Life and Literature 05/13
Romantic Love… 05/13
The Schools of Class… 05/13
iconostasis 04/13
For God’s Sake 03/13
Five Storeys Down. A Travelogue 03/13
How do you know when it’s time to die 02/13
Sceptical Poem 01/13

Ode to Joy 12/12
Summer Dam 12/12
Sydney refracted 10/12
The Way They Moved 08/12
Winter Elegy 07/12
Love (W)rap 07/12
Why I Write 06/12
Williga Inlet 06/12
The Holding 06/12
Just a Thought 05/12
For the Compassionate Ones 05/12
Entertained. A found poem 05/12
The Hard Yards 05/12
mutual modularity poetics 04/12
Woman Hanging Out the Sheets 04/12
Wind Farm Near Lake George 03/12
Random notes on socialist realism… 03/12
The Heat, the Ice 02/12
Five Minute Readings 02/12
Bay 02/12
Earth Smoke… 02/12
Exit, Stage Left 01/12
Any Day Now, Any Day Now 01/12
The threads that bind 01/12
e equals mc squared 01/12

haiku skies 12/11
the cafe… 12/11
Dust Ode 10/11
The Last Aurora 10/11
Compressor 09/11
Eden 09/11
Two 9/11 Poems 09/11
Hyde Park Memorial 09/11
ten to five in the afternoon 09/11
Two Philosophical Triplets 06/11
On the Death… 06/11
Common Sense Evidence… 06/11
Civics 101 05/11
The Chernobyl Suite 04/11
Prologue to the Last Things 03/11
i-melt.com 03/11
Chernobyl Revisited 03/11
The Witness 03/11
2010 report… 02/11
Slow Promise 02/11
shooting the clocks 02/11
the voices were carried… 02/11
Short incomplete answer… 01/11
Night Train, waiting 01/11
kind of a love sonnet 01/11
The Place of Nature… 01/11

Duke 12/10
No Way Home 11/10
A Short Poetics 10/10
So You Think You Can Write 10/10
Fire Ode Variations 10/10
sun 09/10
The Iconology… 09/10
The Day the Sun Didn’t Rise 09/10
Poets Inc Mission Statement 08/10
Sleeping in strange beds 08/10
South-west Line 08/10
If on a Winter’s Night… 08/10
Interfaces 07/10
Marxist haiku 06/10
zen poetics 05/10
Spider, or… 05/10
Green Sonnet 04/10
carbon trading 04/10
The Soft Geometries… 04/10
Consider the Lowly Nettle 03/10
Preliminary Notes… 03/10
Hopenhagen 02/10
On the Innocence of Clouds 01/10

Auguries of Innocence… 12/09
Tracing Boyd 12/09
Signs 11/09
Red 11/09
Meister Eckhart 11/09
The Seven Deadly Sins 11/09
Leda’s Wightmare 11/09
Of Small Birds 11/09
Ocean Edge Haiku 11/09
Not Poem 11/09
The Garden 11/09
Black Blood 11/09
sub mp 5 11/09
Kenning 11/09