Georgia Rose Phillips

Georgia Rose Phillips is a PhD Candidate and a sessional academic in the Creative Writing program at the University of New South Wales. Her debut novel, The Bearcat, is forthcoming with Picador in 2024, and she is at work on her second novel. In 2018, her creative non-fiction novella, Holocene, was runner-up for the Scribe Nonfiction Literary Prize. In 2021, her short story ‘New Balance’ was a fiction winner in the Ultimo Literary Prize. In 2022, her short story ‘Beyond the Marram Grass’ was a shortlisted finalist in the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Prize.

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Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Poetry

Poetry | Noble rot

Georgia Rose Phillips

At night, the outline of the lake changes, the street hunches around the park as fruit bats click past like frenzied metronomes—most nights, I’m in Montmartre; the gully of your navel grazing above me, shadows collapsing, paint unpeeling.