States of Poetry - Poems

States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Shorts' by Aidan Coleman

by Aidan Coleman •

States of Poetry South Australia - Series One

States of Poetry - Poems

States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Shorts' by Aidan Coleman

by Aidan Coleman •

States of Poetry South Australia - Series One

Octopus

Quick across the twilight road,
the eight legs of the cat.

Flood

Water corrects the earth
to flatness, patching fields with sky.

Alarm

Little boat of red figures, adrift between two days.

Window

The creek slides through the rain's eyelashes.

Aidan Coleman

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.