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 …

Fists (Peter Farrar)November 24, 2011
Car exhaust unfurls from my neighbour’s garage. I don’t know if they are committing suicide or smoking meat. I roll a cigarette. Have progressed well past a pack a ... Read More
Spit Hood (Teena McCarthy)July 12, 2019
for Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller and all those held in detention and suffering deaths in custody Oh, such a pretty picture this Kingdom of the Crown. In a dark ... Read More
Why You Stopped Making Things (Lucy Dougan)June 18, 2019
The Wallpaper The wallpaper was a forest. You had put it up with your father. You let me into the new dappled world behind your desk. When you sat in ... Read More