if I put my mind to it

Sharing a new poem to coincide with the release of the latest crop of Flying Island 

books (see below).  Thanks to everyone for making it happen and especially 

to Editor-in-Chief Professor Emeritus Christopher (Kit) Kelen

FIVE FLYING ISLANDERS SHORTLISTED FOR THIS YEAR'S NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE!

 

2021 Newcastle Poetry Prize

$25,000 Prize Pool

and the opportunity to be published in the 2021 anthology

Here is the list of poets (in alpha order) to be published in the 2021 anthology.

Prizes will be announced in October. 

Claire	Albrecht	I have become psychologically linked to a humpback whale		NSW
Natalia Figueroa	Barrosa	Roadtrip		NSW
Lachlan	Brown	Any Saturday, 2021: Running Westward		NSW
Gayelene	Carbis	After ‘Still Life with Babette’s Jug #2’		VIC
Eileen	Chong	Poem for My Ancestors		NSW
Amy	Crutchfield	Yew		VIC
Josie/Jocelyn	Deane	Haruspex		VIC
Shastra	Deo	SORRY		QLD
SJ	Finn	Nefertiti’s Missing Left Eye		VIC
Jane	Frank	The Saddest Things Are The Most Beautiful		QLD
Marcelle	Freiman	The Dam		NSW
Dan	Hogan	Unbelievable Meme Afterlife		NSW
Gregory	Horne	Predictions		NSW
Duncan	Hose	The Search For The Darling Pea		TAS
Christopher (Kit)	Kelen	Ataraxia		NSW
John	Kinsella	A Testament To The Problem Of Being ‘Fascinated’ (By ‘Things’) At A Time Of ‘Cuts’		WA
Lesley	Lebkowicz	Czernowicz: The Poets		ACT
David	Lumsden	Dropping In		VIC
Greg	McLaren	Autumn Medications		NSW
Rachael	Mead	It Takes a Mountain to Raise a Cheese		SA
Audrey	Molloy	The Earwig		NSW
Gemma	Parker	The Drunk Lady On The Bus Has Just Fallen On Her Face		SA
Trisha	Pender	Iphigenia In Triptych		NSW
Nicole	Sellers	Fox Wake		NSW
Jane	Skelton	the lake inside		NSW
Kevin	Smith	Form Guide To The South Western Slopes Of The Great Divide		QLD
Beth	Spencer	Such Is Life In A Small Town		NSW
Connor	Weightman	Perpetual Cataclysm Machine		Vic
Caroline	Williamson	January		VIC
Grace	Yee	Alluvial Mining		VIC