Fiona Wright’s work has been published journals in Australia, Asia and the USA. Her poems feature in Best Australian Poems 2008, 2009 and 2010 (Black Inc.) and the Toilet Doors Project (2004). Fiona is the Poetry Editor at Giramondo Publishing. Her first collection, Knuckled, won the Dame Mary Gilmore Award in 2012.
He had good ideas in the shower, he was sitting upright heroically typing away on his computer – he improvised the filthiest, bawdiest limericks you can possibly imagine.
Rotate the potato. A labrador is happiest collecting kindling. While the football’s on in the other room we salt the pigskin: O, giver of gout. Brie suctions the wooden platter. Wisteria bruises on the patio.
Since the curtains came down on HEAT 24 – the final issue of the journal in print form – we’ve had a steady stream of correspondence from readers and writers alike (often in verse form) letting us know, as one long-term subscriber put it, that ‘the trip to the mailbox won’t be nearly as exciting’ anymore.
Little remains at track.
Creepers, winding where
the graded bed has grown so dank and soft
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