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A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

Poetry and the young today

I meandered down to my first poetry gig for a long while tonight, mainly because good old Tim Hamilton (drzero) was fea­tur­ing at the Spin­ning Room. He was as amaz­ing as he ever was, and pos­sibly even more so, with the new pieces about Paris and some of the Minor…

Mr President? Have I got a drug for you!

Remem­ber the “ter­rible side effects” of the “drug-trial gone wrong” recently? We’ve finally got some details:Mr Wilson and the five others were each paid £2200 ($A5275) for taking part in the trial, but suffered con­vul­sions and organ fail­ure minutes after being…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

These are poems and mean­der­ings that made their way to the page. I’d love to hear what you think of them. Want to get in touch? Drop me a line!

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.