Perth’s rather special community radio station RTR-FM have invited me to talk poetry and read from my new book ‘lemon oil’ on their Friday morning Artbeat programme. At 11:30am this Friday 17 May 2013 tune in to 92.1FM or listen online at rtrfm.com.au.

Saturday 25 May 2013: Perth Poetry Club
At The Moon Cafe, 323 William St, Northbridge.
2-4pm.
Entry is free but please contribute according to your means.

I’m very pleased to be sharing the bill with poet and writer Dr Jaydeep Sarangi, who is visiting Perth from the University of Calcutta in India. While he is in Perth Dr Sarangi is also giving a talk, ‘The Margin Shifts: Contemporary Bengali Refugee Writers Speak’, and launching his new book of poems Silent Days. For more details visit the Westerly Centre, who are hosting Dr Sarangi’s visit.

Poets! My online poetry blog magazine Uneven Floor is now accepting submissions.

It accepts poems in text, video, audio or image format. If you send audio or video it’d be great to have the text too, but it isn’t essential.

Read Uneven Floor to find out more. Please watch your step.

a candid shot
of the military dictator
the burnt child
in his eyes

under the cameras
of Forrest Place

on gapless grey stone
more desert than desert

food comes in plastic
or drips with full-fat heat

street entertainment
is sanctioned and amplified

I wanted a
naked lunch
no powerpoint
no permit
apple cheese fresh bread
cracked acoustic voice

Now he can toddle
we call him Godzilla
‘Liller!’ he echoes,
as cute as a curl

In the peace of his nap
with blocks and toy people
we lay out a city
complete with a mall

But here comes Godzilla,
arisen from slumber,
lumbering in
to liller it all

(First published in Creatrix)

Detoxing from you
is harder than I thought.
Coffee: ^
Chocolate: ^
Wine: ^ then \/
Company: ^ then \/
Flirting: ^
Successfully: ^ ^
Remembering your eyes: \/