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HWA Poetry Showcase IV Weirdbook #37 Mythic Delirium 4.4 Spectral Realms 6

Much of my poetry, including otherwise unpublished work, has been collected in volumes from P'rea Press: The Land of Bad Dreams and The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities

  • "And Things That Go Beep in the Night", The Phantomicon - Imaginings and Images of the Ghost, ed. Frank Coffman, Mind's Eye Publications, August 2025.
  • "Soul House", Shunned Houses 1, ed. Katherine Kerestman & S. T. Joshi, Wordcraft Press, October 2024.
  • "Circling Hecate", Discontinue if Death Ensues, ed. Carol Gyzander & Anna Taborska, Flame Tree Publishing, October 2024.
  • "Malvolio's Revenge" and "Miranda's Resolve" both in Spectral Realms #20, ed. S. T. Joshi, Hippocampus Press, February 2024.
  • "Ophelia's Return", HWA Poetry Showcase X, ed. Angela Yuriko Smith, 2023.
  • "Never Leave the Path", Eternal Haunted Summer, ed. Rebecca Buchanan, Winter Solstice 2023.
    • Australian Shadows finalist
  • "Wardrobe Malfunction", Infectious Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience from the Pandemic, IFWG Publishing Australia, 2021
  • "Lo Stregozza", Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2020.
  • "The Siege", HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VII, ed. Stephanie Wytovich, Horror Writers Association, November 2020
  • "The Macabre Modern", The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities, P'rea Press, 2019.
    • Third place, long form 2020 Rhysling Awards
  • "Boat of a Million Years", The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities, P'rea Press, 2019.
    • Australian Shadows Nomination
  • "Mourning Rites", The Audient Void #7, April 2019.
  • "Revenants of the Antipodes", HWA Poetry Showcase V, ed. Stephanie Wytovich, October 2018. Available now from the Horror Writers Association.
    • Australian Shadows winner.
  • "Libitina's Garden – a triptych" in Mythic Delirium 4.4, April/June 2018. Read it here.
  • "Tattered Livery", Weirdbook #37, December 2017. Available now from Wildside Press.
  • "Vanth – A Myth Derived", Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice, June 2017. Read it here.
  • "Dual Purpose" in Spectral Realms #6, February 2017
  • "The Stone of Sacrifice" in Spectral Realms #4, February 2016
  • "Necromancy" (AKA "The Necromancer's Question"), Spectral Realms #1, Summer 2014.
    • Reprinted in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2014, ed. Liz Gryb and Talie Helene, Ticonderoga Press.
  • "Lucubration", Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Danny Lovecraft, P'rea Press 2012
    • Nominated for the Rhysling Awards, long form. Available now from P'rea Press.
  • "The Exorcism", Midnight Echo #5, 2011
  • "The Land of Dreams Gone Bad", Midnight Echo #5, 2011
  • "Night Cars", Abaddon #2, 1999
  • "Herbal Tea", Bloodsongs #6, 1995
    • Reprinted on Gothic.net, March 2002
  • "Mary", Bloodsongs #3, 1994. Honourable Mention in The Years Best Fantasy and Horror #8 ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling.
    • Reprinted on Gothic.net, February 2002