Click on the links below to read some of my poems published online:
Gitanjali & Beyond
‘the town itself, let us admit, is ugly*’
One Hand Clapping
‘love in the time of celery’
The Red Room Company
(Commissioned poem in conjunction with the Art Gallery of NSW)
‘i leaned my head against yours’
The Red Room Company
(Commissioned poem in conjunction with the Art Gallery of NSW)
‘a table is a flat surface with legs––ce n’est pas une pipe’
The Red Room Company
(Commissioned poem in conjunction with the Art Gallery of NSW)
‘and the angel of the lord appeared to him …’
https://redroomcompany.org/poem/ali-whitelock/and-angel-lord-appeared-him/
https://redroomcompany.org/poem/ali-whitelock/and-angel-lord-appeared-him/
The Tahoma Literary Review
‘this is coal don’t be afraid’
Dodging The Rain
‘the dandruff in the dry scalp of your longing’ (nominated for ‘Best of the Net’ 2020).
The Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine
‘i am the sea’
Dodging The Rain
6 poems
Abridged Literary Journal
‘grabbing a coke & a pussy with you’
HeadStuff
‘hate is a thing without feathers’
Live Encounters
4 poems
Burning House Press
‘kmart sells out of cheap fans made in china’
The Ekphrastic Review
‘do not speak to me of pain’ (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2019).
Backstory Journal – University of Swinburne
‘please do not pee in the sink’
The Bangor Literary Journal
‘the treeless hill’
Scroll to page 57 + 58
The Galway Literary Review
‘natural born goat killer’
The Glasgow Review of Books
‘scene from trainspotting as it relates to self’
Poethead
5 poems
The American Journal of Poetry
‘for a while the darkness was all we could stand’ & ‘i didn’t think i would die like this’
The Squawk Back
‘all the offal love’
The Red Room Company
‘there is no sound when it snows’
Northwords Now (scroll to page 15)
the time it takes to boil an egg’
Beautiful Losers Magazine
‘ode to an ovary’ & ‘eventually you will turn fifty’
Many of my poems have appeared in these rather fabulous literary mags:
The Moth Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, The Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine, The Tahoma Literary Review, The Galway Literary Review, Squawk Back, The Ekphrastic Review, Gutter Magazine, NorthWords Now, The Poets’ Republic, The Red Room Company, Beautiful Losers Magazine, Backstory Journal, Other Terrain Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Canberra Times, Bareknuckle Poet, The Bangor Literary Journal, The Glasgow Review of Books, Neighbourhood Paper, The Hunter Writers’ Centre ‘Grieve’ Volume 6 Anthology, Burning House Press, and upcoming in The University of Wisconsin’s Forty Voices Strong: An Anthology of Contemporary Scottish Poetry, The Blue Nib, One Hand Clapping, Abridged Magazine, The Art Gallery of NSW, Unfurl 4.
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