Dominic Symes

Dominic Symes is a poet writing on Kaurna Country in Adelaide, South Australia. His poetry has featured in Australian Poetry Journal, Australian Book Review, Transnational Literature and Award Winning Australian Writing. He curates ‘NO WAVE’, a monthly poetry reading series at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Thebarton. He was selected for Cordite/Australian Poetry's ‘Tell me like you mean it’ anthology and appeared at the Emerging Writers Festival in 2020.

Articles by Dominic Symes:

Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021

The coffee coffee drinks

Dominic Symes

‘Fortis ut mors dilectio’ — from the Song of Solomon, as inscribed on a necklace my grandfather gave my grandmother on their engagement.

30 April 202126 May 2021

Poetry | The rock stars are dying

Dominic Symes

Paul Simon says the Mississippi delta is shining like a National guitar which is an apt simile but if you want my reflections on rock and roll the rock stars are dying