#published poems

Three of my poems were published in "We Have Food At Home," Issue #25!

These poems are called "Hard-Baked," "Frozen Pizza," and "Christmas Cookies."

I'm so grateful to the editor, Praya, for accepting my work. I'm also happy to have my work featured in WHFAH again as well!

Eclectic Words, Geelong Writers Inc. Annual Anthology 2022

I am thrilled to announce that three of my poems were selected for publication in the prestigious Geelong Writers Inc. Annual Anthology, 2022, and I am honoured to have my words published in a journal along side a group of talented writers that I admire and who have mentored me for many years. I have two poems, “Fragments Float, Tears Splash” and “The Disappearance Of Decency”, in the Poetry…

Circus Boy

© R J Dent (2020)

Circus Boy is a poem I wrote after watching Alejandro Jodorowsky’s powerful and moving film, Santa Sangre.

I am delighted to have 5 of my poems in this anthology! Superbly compiled by the editors, Kaye Lynne Booth and Robbie Cheadle … And I join these fabulous poets, DL Mullan, Barbara Harris Leonhard, Jude Itakali, Robbie Cheadle, Michelle Ayon Navajas, Gwen M. Plano, Elizabeth Gauffreau, David Bogomolny, Dawn Pasturino, Maggie Watson, and Colleen Chesebro, who share their own small pleasures in…

Forty-seven poets and writers with astute observations about living, emotions, and our world were featured online in The Short of It publication in 2022. The best of their thoughts fill the pages of this compilation. They will leave you with rich impressions, some providing mysteries to ponder but also many which speak deep truths. Each piece by the poets and writers presented in this collection…

Meet Kerri Costello, Tullawalla’s Illustrator

Here is her incredible drawing for Tullawalla’s Epilogue And here is my Epilogue poem …. Ivor Steven (c) August 2022