Writing

2025

‘Poetry as Protest; Protest as Poetry,’ Cordite Poetry Review, issue 118 ‘Precarious’, Dec (essay)

‘Weather,’ Australian Book Review, no. 480, Oct (poem)

‘There are Rivers Underneath the Sea,’ Red Room Poetry, 27 Aug (poem)

‘Trusina 1992-1993,’ Artist Profile, issue 72, Aug (poem)

‘Air Supply,’ Sydney Review of Books, 4 Aug (review of rock flight by Hasib Hourani)

‘Human Rustling,’ Australian Poetry Journal, issue 14.1, Jun (poem)

‘Hamza,’ Cordite Poetry Review, issue 116 ‘Remember’, 7 May (poem)

‘Weighing the costs: accessibility and art fairs,’ unExtended, 15 Apr (review/essay on The Other Art Fair, Melbourne)

2024

‘Transcendent Translations,’ Kill Your Darlings, 21 Oct (review of Translations by Jumaana Abdu)

‘because a wind blazes,’ Overland, Friday Poetry, 27 Sep (poem)

‘Permission to narrate,’ Meanjin, Winter (review of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli)

‘Germany’s distortion of memory culture holds warnings for Australia,’ Crikey, 24 Apr (opinion)

‘Blagaj, Mostar,’ Australian Book Review, no 461, Jan-Feb (poem)

‘Chekhov’s Gun in Women and Children,’ Kill Your Darlings, 25 Jan (review of Women and Children by Tony Birch)

‘In the Name of the Moon, I’ll Destroy Capitalism,’ Overland, issue 253 summer 2023/24 (essay)

2023:

‘my father sits in a room alone,’ The Crossing; Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2023, Dec; reprinted in Best of Australian Poems 2024 (poem)

‘The Urgency of Songs for the Dead and the Living,’ Kill Your Darlings, 18 Sep (review of Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M. Saleh)

‘Migratory Flights,’ Sydney Review of Books, 14 Aug (essay)

‘The Invisible Woman in Wifedom,’ Kill Your Darlings, 07 Aug (review of Wifedom by Anna Funder)

‘Love and War in The World and All That It Holds,’ Kill Your Darlings, 01 June (review of The World and All That it Holds by Aleksandar Hemon)

‘Disconnection and Dislocation in Once a Stranger,’ Kill Your Darlings, 27 Mar (review of Once a Stranger by Zoya Patel)

2022:

‘girl,’ Overland, issue 245, summer 2022/23 (poem)

‘gone now,’ Australian Poetry JournaI, issue 12.1, Nov (poem)

‘To Learn a M/other Tongue,’ Australian Multilingual Writing Project, issue 6, 17 Oct (poem; reprinted in Best of Australian Poems 2023)

‘everything I don’t know how to say,’ Cordite Poetry Review, issue 106, Sep (essay)

‘aleksandar hemon tells me who i am,’ Here & Now, as part of Emerging Writers Festival 2022, 15 June (poem)

‘Now and Then,’ Sydney Review of Books, 23 May (review of Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić)

‘Women-Shaped Objects,’ Stadtsprachen, issue 21, March (essay)

‘White Clouds, Blue Rain,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 11 Mar (review of White Clouds, Blue Rain by Oliver Driscoll)

‘Root & Branch,’ Kill Your Darlings, 05 Mar (mini-review of Root and Branch by Eda Gunaydin)

2021:

‘It’s Not a Bad Book, Necessarily,’ Meanjin, Summer 2021/22 (review of Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler; co-written with Hassan Abul)

‘Povratak,’ Everything All At Once, edited collection, Ultimo Press (poem)

‘total global collapse,’ Australian Poetry Journal, vol 11.1 (poem)

‘Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt,’ Mascara Literary Review, 15 Sep (review of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt by Elena Gomez)

‘natural sciences trivia,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 01 Aug (poem)

‘A Teleology of Folding, and of Dying,’ Overland, issue 243, Winter (essay)

‘The Cost of Looking Away,’ Kill Your Darlings, 19 Jul (review of Quo Vadis, Aida?)

‘we repeat,’ Running Dog, 30 June (poem)

‘Case Notes,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 21 Jun (review of Case Notes by David Stavanger)

‘Personally Inflected,’ Australian Book Review, no 431, May (review of Autotheory As Feminist Practice by Lauren Fournier)

‘[Trigger Warning],’ Cordite Poetry Review, 01 May (poem)

‘my fathers tell me of water,’ Meanjin, March (poem; reprinted in Best of Australian Poems 2021)

‘Coming to Terms,’ Archer, issue 15, Mar (essay)

‘Echoes,’ Mascara Literary Review, 23 Feb (review of Echoes by Shu-Ling Chua)

‘Renters and the Right to Make a House a Home,’ Kill Your Darlings, 15 Feb (essay)

2020:

‘lemma,’ Rabbit, vol 32 (poem)

‘Ordinary Objects,’ The Suburban Review, Dec (essay)

‘500 words towards feeling, or: all my poems become war poems,’ Overland, 20 Nov (poem)

‘First Year After War,’ Peach Mag, 16 Oct (poem)

‘Metonyms for Home,’ Overland, 7 Oct (review of New Metonyms by Shantanu Starick & Ennis Cehic)

‘Krenuli Su Vuci,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 01 Oct (poem)

‘every day a yesterday,’ Ulyanovsk Literary Tram, 7 Sep (poem)

‘my kinda woman,’ Gutter, issue 22, Aug (poem)

‘Vagina guinusia,’ SAND, issue 21 (short story)

‘unutra,’ Australian Multilingual Writing Project, issue 4, 22 Jun, (poem; reprinted in 212, issue 13 Spring/Summer 2022)

‘Eight Readings of In the Dream House,’ Overland, 3 Jun (review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado)

‘Trusina, Bosna i Hercegovina,’ Stilts, vol 7, 30 Apr (poem)

‘Digital Intimacy and the Aestheticisation of Sound,’ Meanjin, Mar (essay)

‘Swipe Right for Friendship,’ Kill Your Darlings, 10 Mar (essay)

2019 + :

‘Kin,’ Kill Your Darlings, 2 Sep 2019 (essay)

‘antinatalism in the anthropocene,’ Plumwood Mountain, vol 6.2, 31 Jul 2019 (poem)

‘gore gore gore gore,’ Australian Multilingual Writing Project, issue 2, 6 May 2019 (poem)

‘Gaj’s Latin Alphabet,’ Rabbit, vol 27, 2019 (poem)

‘Such Dada, Much Wow,’ Going Down Swinging, 10 Dec 2018 (essay)

‘grammar,’ Australian Poetry Journal, vol 8.2, 2018 (poem)

‘word of the day,’ Small Town Rejects, 21 Sep 2018 (poem)

‘First Person Singulars Pretending at Plurality,’ Above Water, 7 Sep 2016 (poem)

‘We are all so far away,’ Farrago 21 Mar 2016 (poem)

‘desiderium,’ Kindling II, Writers Edit Press, Nov 2015 (poem)

‘Why is J-Law’s privacy worth more than Paris Hilton’s?’ Junkee.com, 5 Dec 2014 (essay/opinion)

‘The Female Comic,’ Dialect, Oct 2014 (essay)

‘Wax On, Wax Off,’ Lip Magazine, 15 Dec 2013 (essay)