Michael Leach

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A reading of the poem '(Sym)phonic' from my book 'Chords in the Soundscapes'. This is an ecopoem written in the prose poetry form. It is not a Christmassy poem, although I do mention snow (or rather the absence of snow).

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My latest poem referring to Fiona Apple. This is one of 70 poems in my poetry collection 'Chords in the Soundscapes' (Ginninderra Press, 2025). Please let me know if you'd like a copy of the book!

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Pleased to have a prose poem in Poetry d'Amour 2024! Many thanks to the judge, Shey Marque, and to the publisher, WA Poets Inc. You can order this anthology from the publisher ahead of its release date in late August

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Thrilled that my poem 'Biogeography' has made it to the shortlist for this year's Liquid Amber Press Poetry Prize! Congratulations to all the listed poets! I'm very grateful to the Liquid Amber Press team & judges for their work on this prize & the forthcoming anthology

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Pleasantly surprised to have two poems on the longlist for the 2024 Liquid Amber Press Poetry Prize! It's an honour to appear on this list with so many amazingly talented poets:

Many thanks to the Liquid Amber team and judges, and congratulations to all the poets!

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My third book of poetry and first haiku collection, Rural Ecologies, was released this week! Many thanks to In Case of Emergency Press for publishing it and to my partner, Irina Frolova, for this beautiful cover photo! Rural Ecologies can be purchased online here:

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So grateful that my poem about the endangered green sea turtle species, ‘Limits of Vision’, has made it to the shortlist for the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award! Up until 18 November, readers can vote for their favourite shortlisted piece. Please feel free to read pieces in the shortlist (https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/.../Digital-literary-award) and vote for your favourite here: https://culturecounts.cc/s/77nrrJ/

There are such wonderful, innovative pieces by Australian writers and poets on the shortlist—I feel honoured that my turtle poem has been included among them.

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My golden shovel after Fiona Apple and Apple-esque people, from The Galway Review 9 Anthology. Thanks to poet Stuart Barnes for introducing me to this new poetic form thru his poem "The Morning Fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)". No thanks to The Recording Academy for inexplicably overlooking Apple's new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters for an Album of the Year nod at this year's Grammys.

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My ekphrastic poem 'Bolt Cutters', and the accompanying visual writing prompt, from the January 2021 edition of Visual Verse

Image by Michael Easterling

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https://visualverse.org/submissions/bolt-cutters/

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The trailer for my new book of poems ‘Chronicity’ (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020)

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My poem inspired by Fiona Apple’s brilliant track ‘Under the Table’, as featured in Stereo Stories: https://www.stereostories.com/under-the-table-by-fiona-apple-poem-by-michael-leach/

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