Dominic Symes
Dominic Symes has had poetry published in Voiceworks, Award Winning Australian Writing (2016), Coldnoon (India), and Broadsheet (New Zealand). His reviews and criticism have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide and curator of ‘NO WAVE’, a reading series commencing in mid-2018.
Eating a burrito in the Festival Theatre foyer hair in a half-up half-downWatching umbrellas & people blow through the door looking for E and her motherAre they wearing furs? Where are they? E loves the theatre doesn’t come lateTwo girls walk past in Year 12 jumpers & I never went to my five-year reunionHung up these portraits on the wall have no n ... (read more)
I sit with you and watch you smoke cigarettes in front of meyou take photographs but not here not of meI didn’t ask for sugar in my coffee but I didn’t return it eitherwhen the bus leaves you will be on it when the sky opens you will be beneath itone day in the future we will agree on something &nb ... (read more)
after ‘Dug and Digging With’ – AEAF, July/August 2016
Looking forward to seeing you all day& arriving at the crowded gallery steps
I say ‘this gallery is full of the same peopledesperate to see something different’
but I don’t really believe this I mean I amonly here to see you & like this room
is lit j ... (read more)
Listening to my own listless heart beating & youbeside me I discover we are minor seconds aparttragic-chromatic but if subtle harmony does existit’s a three-year-old playing fists palms & elbowswe manage to stay out of each other’s way mostlysave for collateral clashes/catastrophes: collisions& rhythms? look at this ventricular wall I put upmeaning: I stay r ... (read more)