Dominic Symes
'Things I Know to be True' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
Eating a burrito in the Festival Theatre foyer hair in a half-up half-down
Watching umbrellas & people blow through the door looking for E and her mother
Are they wearing furs? Where are they? E loves the theatre doesn’t come late
Two girls walk past in Year 12 jumpers & I never went to my five-year reunion
Hung up these port ... More
'Poem for A' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
I sit with you and watch you smoke cigarettes in front of me
you take photographs but not here not of me
I didn’t ask for sugar in my coffee but I didn’t return it either
when the bus leaves you will be on it when the sky opens you will be beneath it
one day in the future we will agree on something
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'The Madness of the Day' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
'Minor Seconds' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
Listening to my own listless heart beating & you
beside me I discover we are minor seconds apart
tragic-chromatic but if subtle harmony does exist
it’s a three-year-old playing fists palms & elbows
we manage to stay out of each other’s way mostly
save for collateral clashes/catastrophes: collisions
& rhythms? look at this ven ... More
About Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
News from the Editor's Desk - March 2017
Porter Prize
We received almost 1,000 entries in this year’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize – by far our biggest field to date. Entries came from twenty-two countries. The judges – Ali Alizadeh, Jill Jones, Felicity Plunkett – have now shortlisted More
