Poem

'Barbarian Studies' a new poem by Aidan Coleman

August 2015, no. 373

Poem

'Barbarian Studies' a new poem by Aidan Coleman

August 2015, no. 373

Weather in which I might be
elsewhere, lounging
book in hand, Tim Tams
(dark, perhaps), tea a given,

instead of the uphill pram push of swaying kids,
singing drunkenly –
what a coachman circa 1840
or his horse felt, probably,

Aidan Coleman

Aidan Coleman has published three collections of poetry, most recently Mount Sumptuous (Wakefield Press, 2020). He has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, and the WA Premier’s Book Awards. Aidan is currently completing a biography, Thin Ice: A Life of John Forbes, to be published by Melbourne University Publishing.