The 6th Great Extinction

The 6th Great Extinction

There are no platy­pus under the bridge again today. It’s the fourth week in a row and we all ask each other Instead of hello, “Seen any platy­pus?” — hopeful And each time, it’s “Not today… not for a while…” None of us know whether it’s...

Death, death, death

For Brian Wid­dows, Jaime’s daugh­ter Kaya and Cered­wyn and Keith’s cousin There is an infin­ite sadness in cer­tain acts that cannot be escaped and tonight I grapple with the trifecta: A murder, a sui­cide, the death of a baby moments before it...

Vale Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter, Aus­tralian poet, inspir­a­tion and mentor, has died of cancer aged 54.Dorothy, I first met you when I was 18. I was a young poet, bright and shiny-eyed, des­per­ate to impress you. You were my new poetry teacher at the Uni­ver­sity...
New poem

New poem

Given that there are only 8 read­ers of mordwen_poetry, I should prob­ably men­tion that I wrote a new poem today, in response to Lisa’s cremation.