Aidan Coleman
States of Poetry 2016 SA Podcast | 'Secondary' by Aidan Coleman
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Aidan Coleman reads 'S More
States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Shorts' by Aidan Coleman
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.
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States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Motivational' by Aidan Coleman
States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Immortal Diamond' by Aidan Coleman
The do-it-yourself piano isn't
kicked to matchwood, and you take
this for affirmation. When we
work out how to switch off
Bob Dylan, your plangent homemades
will go unaccompanied, no longer
sought like an injury lost in the mists
of Hansard. People suggest topics
they won't be using, and this is
more like an archive sneeze
than what yesteryea ... More
States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Secondary' by Aidan Coleman
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Angling over star-fields,
the pitches lit like billiard tables.
Those lengths you were shouted up and back,
lungs scoured by brillo air.
The lazier concord of close mown grass
and low hanging fruit
of the short boundary. A tang of primitive
electronics: the circuit board's braille labyrinth,
the slab type of Amstrad.
This callow path, you< ... More
'Barbarian Studies' a new poem by Aidan Coleman
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,
Mike Ladd reviews 'Asymmetry' by Aidan Coleman
In July 2007, at the age of thirty-one, Aidan Coleman suffered a stroke as a result of a brain tumour. Asymmetry is a book in two parts. The first details the poet’s survival af More