Nathan Curnow lives in Ballarat and is a past editor of Going Down Swinging. His books include The Ghost Poetry Project, RADAR, The Right Wrong Notes and his most recent collection, The Apocalypse Awards (2016). He is the father of four daughters, a co-host of the Youtube series Cooking Classic Poems, and is regularly thrown more »
Ali Whitelock – Four Poems
Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet/writer living in Australia. Ali’s debut poetry collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ was published by Wakefield Press in May 2018. Ali’s first book, ‘Poking seaweed with a stick and running away from the smell’ (memoir) was published to critical acclaim by Wakefield Press, Adelaide and by Polygon, more »
Ian Gibbins CAT CLAWS a videopoem
catclaws from Ian Gibbins on Vimeo. Ian Gibbins is an Adelaide poet who works across diverse forms, including electronic music, digital media, and video. After completing a PhD in Zoology at Melbourne University, he spent two years in Pharmacology Departments in the USA, before coming back to live in a hilly suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. more »
Edward Willes : Peri-urban – a poem | Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters
Edward Willes in an Australian Poet. “A Matisse of Banana-bird sapphire and/Manorina gold blister the rust of an eroding 1999/Hyundai Accent import/parked on the other side of a peri-urban weld mesh fence./Grass and gravel mutiny in the street. Die Brücke expressions of the chalky white runaround car living out the last of its days . more »
Michael Dransfield Poems – Five Unpublished
Michael Dransfield (12 September 1948 – 20 April 1973) was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1,000 poems. He has been described as one of the most widely read poets of his generation. Dransfield was born in Sydney, and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He briefly studied English literature and language more »
B. R. Dionysius: Five Poems 2018
B. R. Dionysius is a prominent author in anthologies and collections of contemporary Australian poetry with over 500 publications archived by the Australian Literary Archive. He was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. His poetry has been widely published in literary journals, anthologies, newspapers and online. He is the author of one artist’s book, The Barflies’ more »
Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2015 Vol.1 Now Online
Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2015 Vol.1 Open Access To comply with Bareknuckle Poet’s open access policy (all for the sake of literature) Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2015 Vol.1 Howl 50 Years is now online at our ed-in-chiefs academic archive. Scroll down, the whole volume is there, free and shareable, for general reading or research. This is the more »
Marie Craven – Orphanage: a videopoem w/ Matt Hetherington
Marie Craven & Matt Hetherington Orphanage ✭ a video-poetry collaboration ✭ Orphanage by Marie Craven on Vimeo. Orphanage is one of three video-poetry collaborations (to date) between film-maker Marie Craven (Gold Coast), and poet and spoken-word artist, Matt Hetherington (Northern NSW). The footage in this video is from a 1954 marriage guidance film, in the public domain at more »
Visual Poetry by Melissa Damson Wauchope
Melissa Damson Wauchope, known as “Damson” in the art world graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts at James Cook University. Originally from Australia her conceptual work drew her to Italy in the late 90s. She currently lives near Venice where she works as a polyedric artist, moving with ease between painting, installation, photography and writing. more »
A poem by Abdul-Jaleel Abdalla: Carpark Hooligans
Abdul-Jaleel Abdalla is an Australian/Palestinian poet currently based in South Australia. His work has been published in Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 02, 2016, Deep Water Literary Journal, NoiseMedium, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Alwasat Newspaper. ⎆ instagram.com/aj.abdalla/