Poetry
Journals
- ‘Home’s Duplex’ – Meanjin 83.2 (forthcoming)
- ‘Six Yards of Fabric’ – Rabbit 39: MUTINY (forthcoming)
- ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’ – Cordite 112: TREAT (forthcoming)
- ‘Intergenerational’ – Astrolabe
- ‘In the Dollhouse’ – Griffith Review 83: Past Perfect
- ‘Red Writing Hood’ – Strange Horizons
- ‘tinnitus as hushing haibun’ – Overland #250
(Shortlisted: 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize) - ‘Words with Friends’ (with Helena Arnold) – Rabbit 37: COLLABORATIONS
- ‘The Floor’ – Mascara Literary Review, Issue 28
- ‘Containment’ – Rabbit 36: ART
- ‘Perspective’ – Cordite 106: OPEN
- ‘Tense’ – Red Room Poetry
(Originally published in Admissions: Voices within Mental Health) - ‘Someday’ – Meniscus Volume 10, Issue 1 2022
- ‘112 Days of Stage 4’ – Rabbit 34: REPORTAGE
- ‘For I will consider meri maan’ – Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Issue 6
- ‘Vermeer as Performance’ – Cordite 103: AMBLE
- ‘the cycle of violence’ – Australian Poetry Journal (Issue 11.1: local, attention)
- ‘Self-addressed’ – Rabbit 33: ASIA
- ‘lexias of the body’ – The Victorian Writer (Issue: Body Language, June – August 2021)
- ‘Year 2329: History Test’ – Cordite 101: No Theme 10
- ‘Faking it’ – Not Very Quiet, Issue 8: Mask, March 2021
- ‘Chasey’ – Cordite 100: BROWNFACE
- ‘Horizon’ – Art in the time of COVID-19 (special e-book issue), San Fedele Press
- ‘The landscape changes’ – Cordite 92: No Theme VIII
Anthologies
- Best of Australian Poems 2023 – ‘tinnitus as hushing haibun’ (originally published in Overland 250 & shortlisted for the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize & )
- Poetry of Home: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology – forthcoming ‘Twenty-one+ Answers to Your Question’ (Winner: 2023 Liquid Amber Prize)
- Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 10 2023 – ‘The Floor’ (originally published in Mascara Literary Review, Issue 28)
- Best of Australian Poems 2022 – ‘Self-addressed’ (originally published in Rabbit 33: ASIA)
- Admissions: Voices within Mental Health, a Red Room Poetry Project – ‘Tense’
- Grieve Vol 10, 2022 Anthology, Hunter Writers Center – ‘Leila’
- Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 8 2020 – ‘Ridley College, O-Week, 1992’
- Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 9 2021 – ‘Landscape pantoum’ (originally published in Cordite 92: No Theme VIII with the title ‘The landscape changes’)
Essays
CNF // Personal
- ‘Mera Pata’ – Island magazine (Issue 164)
- ‘Hair and the Tug (of War)’ – Portside Review (Issue 4)
- ‘Our Mango Tree’ – Australian Multilingual Writing Project (Issue 3)
Reviews // Craft
- Review of Claire Potter’s Acanthus – Mascara Literary Review (March 2023)
- Review of Claire Gaskin’s Eurydice Speaks – Mascara Literary Review (January 2022)
- ‘Structure: Lifeblood of the Lyric Essay’ (craft essay) – Brevity (Issue 69 / January 2022)
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