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 →

Genevieve Osborne / Poetry

CRIMSON ROSELLA

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Poem and Dish • 4 Comments

CRIMSON ROSELLA Platycercus elegans A bushfire has let its embers fall onto your back they cling there still red and black but when the light is slanting low on each feather of your stretched out wing there shines a narrow rim of green the bush begins again and grows in flight your breast curves smooth … Continue reading →