In an update from last week’s news – Tower Of Fog and Gull & Leviathan have made the shortlist for the Lane Cove Literary Award under Short Story and Waterbrook Poetry Prize respectively. It is very exciting and humbling to have made it to the shortlist in both categories. The winners are announced October 29th.Continue reading “UPDATE : Lane Cove Literary Award – Shortlist”
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Lane Cove Literary Award
Some very exciting news today – Tower Of Fog and Gull & Leviathan have made the longlist for the Lane Cove Literary Award under Short Story and Waterbrook Poetry Prize respectively. To have my work considered out of the hundreds of entrants is very humbling; congratulations and best of luck to the other finalists, theContinue reading “Lane Cove Literary Award”
A Poem – Comet
When the sun is down and out for hoursAnd the blanket of night covers – don’t cower!Look up, observe, like illuminated flowers,Pouring like rain, it’s a comet shower. They shoot and dart like a canine lick,Aside symphonic cricket-y click.Magnificent space makes me giddy and sick,But a speck beneath the palatial cosmic. Everywhere, up! Constellations toContinue reading “A Poem – Comet”
A Poem – Nightmare Cove
This poem was inspired by a trip to Tasmania – specifically Port Arthur, whereupon I was able to glimpse at the lives of my country’s earlier settlers and the grisly natural prison that was the Tasman Peninsula.
Gull & Leviathan – A Fable
Gull & Leviathan – A Fable is a poem by P.S.Clinen. It won the inaugural Lane Cove Literary Award for poetry in 2014. White bird, he flew across the blue To desolation’s shore. ‘Cross peaks of stone that cloak their bones with iron shrub and hoar.
P.S.Clinen 