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Poem of the Month – October 2022 – Rory Harris

The Poem of the Month for October 2022, selected by 2022 Anthology Editors, Veronica and David Cookson, is ancestors by Rory Harris. The commended poems for October are Torbay (a phonetic acrostic) by Sharon Foulkes and In Dogs we Trust by Peter Meech.

ancestors
Rory Harris

My wife
will never

wash you
so, how many hands

will miss
this opportunity

bathing you
seal slick

glistening
perfumed body

as your grandmother’s
garden still throws

colour into a suburban
universe of scent

Torbay (a phonetic acrostic)
Sharon Foulkes

Timeless twitter and tick-tick
in tall timbers that tower over
tangled tendrils and twisted trunks in tatters;

The orison
of an ornithological chorus,
always at some ornery hour;

A barrow-full of bottlebrush in bloom
bounced through a ballet of butterflies
beyond the bend;

Ancient terrain tamed into acreage:
black-face graze while snakes predate –
and then again, rain.… Click for more

Richard Tipping

Richard Kelly Tipping was born in 1949 in Adelaide, South Australia, and studied at Flinders University and later at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was the co-editor of Mok magazine from 1968-69, and co-founded the Friendly Street readings in 1975, editing the first anthology published in 1977.

He lives in Newcastle, NSW, and lectures in media at the local mind factory. He has published three books of poems with University of Queensland Press, and is represented in many anthologies, including the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry and the New Oxford Book of Australian Verse.

He has been exhibiting wordworks (poems sculptures and visual language) since 1970.… Click for more

Alice Shore

Alice Shore writes, with some success, both short stories and poetry. The Sunset Woman with Butterflies, a collection of poetry, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2000. She self-published some of her poetry written on behalf of animals in a collection called Animalia Spirituality in 1999. Her poetry has been read on Poetica, used in a NSW Eistedffod, and published in numerous publications, and with Kindamindi (NSW) Press, which specialises in poetry for children.

Once a teacher of English and German, and translator of seven languages, Alice now finds even her mother tongue a ‘bit difficult’ and works either in a vineyard or as a school cleaner, or both.… Click for more

Peter Goldsworthy

Peter Goldsworthy was born in Minlaton, South Australia, and grew up in various country towns, finishing his schooling at Darwin High School. Since graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide, he has divided his time equally between medicine and writing.

His novels have sold more than a quarter of a million copies in Australia alone, and have been translated into many European and Asian languages.

His 1989 novel Maestro also published on CD-ROM Multimedia, and has just been reissued as part of the A&R Australian Classics series. It is the novel chosen this year for the inaugural Australian ‘One Book-One Town’ project.… Click for more