Mad Poets Archives

Mad Poets Workshop Winners: The Wollongong Writers Festival

Verity La November 18, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Poetry

Spinning By Kyra Thomsen I spin myself into a frenzy legs lurching in and out like a spider building a web unravelling my inner-silk exposing my underbelly. The tea is …

VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 4: Ben Frater

Verity La October 21, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Verity La Poetry Podcast

BEN FRATER: This month we’re celebrating the work of Ben Frater with our Clozapine Clinic Co-editors Tim Heffernan and Alise Blayney. To kick off, Tim shares his plans for the upcoming …

BEN FRATER AND THE MAD POETS OF THE GONG

Verity La October 12, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Heightened Talk

By Tim Heffernan It is significant that the poetry of Benjamin Frater is reprised for the 2016 Wollongong Writers Festival and that he will be an integral part of the …

Serpent (Anna Jacobson)July 6, 2018
By the time I see you, seventy-one angels have descended from heaven, chopped off your hands and feet, split your tongue. You crawl along your belly. Vanish. By the time ... Read More
Bloom (Les Wicks)May 31, 2019
Suburbs now have their community gardens. Husbands buried there turn the pages of books abandoned because the heroine fretted too much to actually do anything. This ambition to compost sees ... Read More
Apparitions <br> (Anthony Lawrence)February 12, 2019
The Brindle Horses The brindle horses have been put out to pasture wearing their golden plumes. In certain light they appear as muscled apparitions out of a pop-up book for ... Read More