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Category Archives: Beth Spencer

Singing us home
Beth Spencer / Poetry

Singing us home

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Poem and Dish • 2 Comments

In a kitchen in Brisbane three of us sit sharing tea and talking about dislocation how hard we find it to feel really here, to feel we belong. Each of us an unplanned baby. (An accident, or a surprise if you’re being nice.)   Never felt that sense of unequivocal right-to-be, to take up space. … Continue reading →

The last hurrah
Beth Spencer / Poetry

The last hurrah

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Poem and Dish • 2 Comments

In the park at Richmond River the ibis converge on the scraps like clumsy ballerinas. One bites the tail of a water dragon who stares at me astonished, like perhaps we knew each other in a past life. Across the way a row of Queenslanders lift their skirts to avoid puddles and cars drive by, … Continue reading →

Love Poem
Beth Spencer / Poetry

Love Poem

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Poem and Dish • 1 Comment

I woke up this morning afraid of the world then a man threw up at the bus stop. I stared the other way, he had tears in his eyes and so did I, but all I could remember was Bobby Brady saying (at 5.25 last night) that if it worked for a girl it might … Continue reading →

Book of poetry giveaway
Beth Spencer / Poetry

Book of poetry giveaway

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Poem and Dish • 9 Comments

Beth Spencer is the Poet of the Month for February, and this week she is offering Poem and Dish readers, an eBook copy of her book of poetry Vagabondage. To go in the draw, please follow Poem and Dish, like this post and leave a comment so I can contact you. You can specify in … Continue reading →

Leaving this house
Beth Spencer

Leaving this house

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Poem and Dish • 6 Comments

Leaving is like breaking something not a single crash smash on the floor but a long drawn out rugged exhausting tearing asunder God is in the details as I pick them apart The fine bones The hush I remember that first time      unbidden I heard it, as I was outside walking with my cup … Continue reading →

Poet of the Month – February
Beth Spencer / Poet of the Month - 2016

Poet of the Month – February

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Poem and Dish • 1 Comment

Beth Spencer’s awards include The Age Short Story Award, runner up for the Steele Rudd Award (for How to Conceive of a Girl), the inaugural Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship, and assistance from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Vagabondage, a verse memoir about the year she lived in a campervan (UWAPublishing, 2014) was her first … Continue reading →

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