Dominic Symes Dominic Symes i(10910129 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Korean Grocer i "I can sit here forever in the coffee shop beside the Korean Grocer", Dominic Symes , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 13 May no. 113 2024;
1 Paul Verlaine’s Pistol i "rings out through poetry", Dominic Symes , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 13 May no. 113 2024;
1 Tipping Point (‘Blues for Skip’) i "my skin is deathly pale", Dominic Symes , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 13 May no. 113 2024;
1 My Hot Girl Summer i "I love this rock I just picked up", Dominic Symes , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , June no. 30 2023;
1 Passing Time i "pushing against the thin walls of the weekend! with all the pent-up sexual energy of", Dominic Symes , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 253 2023-2024; (p. 58-59)
1 Clueless Dominic Symes , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 Overthinking Dominic Symes , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 Post-Ecopoetic Poem i "I stan this leaf", Dominic Symes , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2023;
1 Property Is Theft i "Proudhon said it best", Dominic Symes , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 251 2023; (p. 69)
1 Dirty Hit i "do you ever find yourself reading poems", Dominic Symes , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
1 ‘There Is a Stillness I Seek’ : On Ekphrasis and Memory Dominic Symes , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 27 no. 1 2023;

— Review of Spirit Level Marcelle Freiman , 2021 selected work poetry
'Marcelle Freiman’s Spirit Level is a delicate balancing act, where positive tensions between the seen and the remembered are painted with expert brushstrokes, advancing the contemporary ekphrastic project from a different perspective; a productive, yet blurred, binary: the poet- academic.' (Introduction)
1 Security Questions (True Vulnerability) i "Is this the light refracting innocently through a droplet of rain I’m seeing", Dominic Symes , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;
1 The Pilgrimage : A Cross Cultural Discourse between Bishnupada Ray and Dominic Symes Dominic Symes , Bishnupada Ray , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
Editor's note:

 For this collaboration, each poet initially sent three poems to the other, after which they wrote new poems responding to those received. This article presents the initial poems, followed by the responses, followed by reflective commentaries in which each poet discusses their experiences of and learning through this creative and dialogic process.


The work presented here redevelops materials previously published in TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses special issue number 60 (https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/23520-sites-and-citations). The previously-published work has been reconsidered and reframed in the light of more recent social, political, and historical developments, particularly those related to the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and the global climate crisis.


 
1 Black Mirror (Invasion) i "When I put it all together", Dominic Symes , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 Nice Things Artfully Arranged Dominic Symes , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 34 2022;
1 Hrad Devin i "like a dream", Dominic Symes , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Saltbush Review , no. 2 2022;
1 Queering the Canon i "I love the phrase queering the canon", Dominic Symes , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , vol. 12 no. 1 2022;
1 Speeding up and Slowing down i "there's immense pleasure to be had", Dominic Symes , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , vol. 12 no. 1 2022;
1 A Ringing Glass That Shivers Even as It Rings Dominic Symes , Banjo James , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 1 2022;

— Review of The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020 anthology poetry prose
'The following is a joint review written by two poets concerned with many of the same ideas, who over the months they discussed The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry were separated by borders that shifted and changed. The ideas we formed through reading this book appeared vague at first, then clear and distinct, but ultimately by the time it came to write the review, were blurred once again. Something that one of us wrote in correspondence to the other returned under some other subheading in a later draft, unknowingly subsumed into one of our consciousnesses as an idea for its own sake.' 

(Publication abstract)

1 Lunchtime Variations : Dominic Symes Interviews Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton Dominic Symes (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , February no. 104 2022;

'Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the self-help sections of bookshops, expecting to find the secret to long life and enduring happiness written down somewhere. As a poet, I am preternaturally worried about poetry running out on me: the inspiration drying up, the fun of it going out for a pack of cigarettes one day and never coming back, leaving me with nothing but a sink full of dishes and a manuscript full of melancholy poems about birds.' (Introduction)

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