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251 Winter 2023

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Shari Kocher

Shari Kocher is an Australian poet, fiction-writer, researcher and therapist. Widely published and anthologised in Australia and elsewhere, including in Best of Australian Poems 2021, Kocher’s work has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards. Her two books of poetry are Foxstruck and Other Collisions (Highly Commended for the NSW Premier’s Literature Awards Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2022) and The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Awards 2015). In 2021 she won the Blue Knot Foundation Award, while her poem ‘Wintercearig’ was longlisted in Overland’s Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature. Kocher holds a PhD from Melbourne University and lives and works on the sovereign land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. www.sharikocher.com

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24 November 202324 November 2023 · Friday Poetry

Poem with vertical viewfinder

Shari Kocher

If in future an image of mine— of course, I have made the if-ness of your looking a multiple Ferris wheel turned to trolley car trundling down the street. Damn, I will show you something all right here, inside the daily or what you call private.

5 November 20225 November 2022 · Fiction

Beautiful, Beautiful

Shari Kocher

She felt both sick and sensuous, all at once, felt she ought to call someone but secretly suspected nobody wanted to hear it. She paced from kitchen to bedroom, recalling the flimsy truth of the factoid her younger friend’s boyfriend had casually shared at yesterday’s picnic, when they’d found themselves not part of any particular conversation beside the warming watermelon, the voices of their peers swirling like bees drawn to more promising flowers.

Published in Overland Issue 208 Spring 2012 · Main Posts

Bellbird Gully

Shari Kocher

(after Eugene’s Falls, by A Frances Johnson) inside the invisible atlas of a wave possessor of savage kindness two-tenths of the way