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                                                                                                    2023
Bend - Rough Diamond Poetry Journal (Forthcoming)
Personal Problems - Orange Blossom Review (Forthcoming)
The Nails - Antipodes (Forthcoming)
A Marriage Made in Heaven - Meniscus (Forthcoming)
Seed Bank - Crosswinds (Forthcoming)
Her Last Post - Anthology of Australian Verse 2023 (Bonfire Books)
Cloud Farms - Anthology of Australian Verse 2023 (Bonfire Books)
Our Meteorites Fall to Earth - Anthology of Australian Verse 2023 (Bonfire Books)
Foreign Accent Syndrome - Foam:e, Issue 20 (Forthcoming)
Reminders - Foam:e, Issue 20 (Forthcoming)
The Pelican Feeder - Australian Book Review, March 2023 No. 451
Unreal City - Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology 2023
The Moment - StylusLit, March No. 13, 2023


                                                                                                    2022

The Length of Extinction - The Mozzie, Vol. 30. Issue 03, September 2022
The Water Torture - The Mozzie, Vol. 30. Issue 05, December 2022
Your Bones of Glass - Best of Australian Poems 2022

The Commons - New Millennium 52 (Forthcoming)
Over Coffee I think of My Children - Meanjin, Spring 2022

The End of the Story - New Ohio Review 32
Patience as a Crocodile - New Ohio Review 32
Sportstar - Poetica Review Autumn 2022
Low Tide - Poetica Review Autumn 2022
The Everything and All - 2022 Poetry D’Amour Poetry Competition Anthology
The Plot - 2022 Poetry D’Amour Poetry Competition Anthology
The Graves - Grieve Anthology – Volume 10
Body Farm - Brushstrokes 3: Ros Spencer Poetry Competition Anthology 2021 - 2022
Requiem for Ronald McDonald - The Anabranch: The 2022 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
Arguments Against Gardening No. 37 - Booranga 4W: Thirty-Three
Carcinization - Cordite 106: Open
The Big C - Hope, 2022 ACU Poetry Prize Anthology
The Day We Raised the Train - Hope, 2022 ACU Poetry Prize Anthology
The End of the Regime - Hope, 2022 ACU Poetry Prize Anthology
Wynnum North Foreshore - Red Ogre Review – 2021 – 2022 Anthology
The Drawing of Lots - Lothlorien Poetry Journal – 09 September
The Aerodynamics of Mythical Creatures -  Lothlorien Poetry Journal – 09 September
The Market - Lothlorien Poetry Journal – 09 September
Medium Testimony - Lothlorien Poetry Journal – 09 September
Tyranny - Lothlorien Poetry Journal – 09 September

A Visitation - Skylight 47, Issue 17
Sonnet for the Tardigrade with a line from Dylan Thomas - Poetry Wales 57.2 – Spring 2022
Pulling Out the Tablecloth - Touchstone Literary Review – 2022 Edition
The Dam Outside of Town - Authora Australis – Issue 4
Pyramid - Rabbit Non-Fiction Poetry Journal – Issue 35 Architecture
The Unemployment Office - The Mozzie, Vol. 29, Issue 8, February 2022
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                                                                                                        2021
Primaries - The Mozzie, Vol. 29, Issue 6, November 2021
Extremophile - The Mozzie, Vol. 29, Issue 4, September 2021

Service - Forthcoming, Australian Poetry Anthology Volume 9
Habit - Forthcoming, Meniscus Volume 9, Issue 2
The History of Sugar - The Mozzie, Vol. 29, Issue 5, October 2021
The Dawn Resilience - The 2021 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology
Aum Shinrikyo Farms Sarin - Best of Australian Poetry 2021
How to Hold a Knife - Booranga 4W Thirty-Two
Piano Rock, Tamborine Mountain - Brushstrokes II, Ros Spencer Contest Anthology 2020-21
Confessions of an Addict - Brushstrokes II, Ros Spencer Contest Anthology 2020-21
She Starts Playing After Ten Years of Silence - Poetry D Amour Anthology 2021
To have and to hold - Poetry D Amour Anthology 2021
What We Learned From the Geisha Girl - Grieve Anthology – Volume 9
What’s Wrong With the Date - Guncotton, Cordite
Cheshire - Crosswinds Poetry Journal Vol. VII – Fall 2021

What Animals Could You Beat in a Fight? Cordite 102: Game
The Future - Griffith Review 73: Hey Utopia!

An Old Conjunction - Stilts Issue 9
The Left - Westerly 66.1
Twined - StylusLit Issue 9
A Small Holding - Southword 40

                                                                                                          2020
Tweet - Peril Journal, Edition 42: No Theme
Measures of Truth - “Measures of Truth” the 2020 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
Dust - “Measures of Truth” the 2020 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
Love and Other Junk - 2020 Poetry d’Amour Anthology
Entanglement - 2020 Poetry d’Amour Anthology
All the Colours of the Sky - Atlanta Review, Fall 2020

Egon Kisch Takes the Dictation Test - Cordite, Issue 97: Propaganda
One Request - Grieve 2020 Anthology
King Parrot - fourW Thirty-One

A First Approximation - Australian Poetry Anthology 2020, Volume 8
How the Angels Covet Heaven - Verity La
Light Speed - Rabbit 31: The Science Issue


                                                                                                            2019
Fatberg - Cordite, (Issue 95: Earth)
Christmas Dinner - Stilts (Issue 6, December)
Migrations - The Mozzie (September/October Volume 27, No. 6)
At Lords - The Mozzie (September/October Volume 27, No. 6)
The Grass Shark - Meniscus (Volume 7, Issue 2 2019)
Nothing - ‘Soft Serve’, the Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
The Careless Shore - ‘Silence’, The Canberra University Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Anthology
Egg - The New Guard

The Relocation of Adamsville - fourW Thirty
The Persistence of the Image - Grieve Competition Anthology
The Superman Complex - Island (Edition 158)
Apocalypse with Goats - StylusLit (Issue 6 September Edition)

Difficult Fruit - The Moth Magazine – (Autumn Edition)
Logical Fallacies of Alien - Cordite (Issue 90: Monster)
Order of Precedence - The Mozzie, Volume 27 (Jan/Feb)
Goebel’s Secretary - The Mozzie, Volume 27 (Jan/Feb)
Toad - Overland (Issue 236 Spring 2019)

                                                                                                              2018                                           
A Survey of Australian Religions - 'Buying Online' - Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
Equals - The Mozzie (Volume 26 October)
Ladies' Day - Booranga FourW 29

Red Wire, Blue Wire - Stilts Literary Journal (Issue 4)
After the Bark - Australian Poetry Subscribers Anthology 2018
The View From Heaven - Verity La
A Loss of Confidence - Stilts Literary Journal (March)
Canned Conch - Mississippi Review (June)
No End of Endings - Veronica Magazine (April)
A Twist in the Grass - Veronica Magazine (April)
To a Poet - Text Literary Journal (April)
Masterpieces - Text Literary Journal (April)
                                                                                                            2017                                           
Root and Memory - New Shoots Anthology
The Cole Porter Effect - Rabbit Poetry Journal Jazz Edition
The Wedge - StylusLit Edition 2
Catching the Last Wave - Booranga FourW 25
Facts and Fantasies - Award Winning Australian Writing
The Land Becomes a Story I can Tell - Cordite: Land
Bird Song - Plumwood Mountain (August)
Breeding Season - StylusLit Edition 1 March
The Cattle Egret - Island Issue 148 (February)
Strangler Fig - The Mozzie (February)
Exposed - The Mozzie (March)
The End - The Mozzie (May)
The Wrappings - The Mozzie (December)
                                                                                                           2016                                           
The Moment of the Melody - Award Winning Australian Writing
Leech Evening at Lamington - Award Winning Australian Writing
Predicting a Greensborough Woolworths Sit In -Award Winning Australian Writing
The Footings Are Poured on the Future - Uneven Floor Poetry Review
Korora Beach, Dusk - Uneven Floor Poetry Review
The Price - Southerly                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                          2015                                           
What Kind of Poem Would The Mining Company Tell Lionel Fogharty - Mascara Literary Review (September)
The Flinch - Blue Pepper (13 December)
Cow Chants - The Mozzie
Compromise - The Mozzie (December)
The Rally Cry of the 4AM Cat - The Mozzie
                                                                                                          2014                                           
Eyes - Cordite Issue 49 – Obsolete
Pearls - Exploring The Depths, Poetical Christi Press


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