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Samuel Wagan Watson Samuel Wagan Watson i(A22192 works by) (a.k.a. Sam Wagan Watson)
Born: Established: 1972 Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Birri-Gubba Juru ; German ; Irish ; Aboriginal Mununjali / Munaldjali ; Dutch ; Aboriginal Bundjalung
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1 A Quiet Garden-Variety Killer i "It creeps along the fence-line, peeping through wooden slats … nonchalant without being bombastic of how", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 Smoke and Mirrors Samuel Wagan Watson , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 241 2020; (p. 75-78)
1 'Coda' for My Smoke Incrypted Whispers i "I am a vexed engineer: my ‘smoke encrypted whispers’ faded toward the", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 240 2020; (p. 59)
1 FREE WORKING TELEVISION…TO GO TO A GOOD HOME! i "The set had been purchased by my Gran in another era", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 1 2020; (p. 78)
1 Poltergeists in the Pandemic Samuel Wagan Watson , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Our Inside Voices : Reflections on COVID-19 2020; (p. 8-16)
1 Vanishing i "For too long I have been a member of a vanishing tribe … We start using terms like; ‘going, going, gone …’ in", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 96 2020;
1 The Elsewheres of Charlie Bolt Samuel Wagan Watson , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , April no. 68 2020; (p. 169-177)
1 Sie Semper Tyrannis i "A message in a bottle / organic song in a can / coveted neo-fruit; hunted…harvested… hacked-over / our", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 95 2020;
1 In Gods We Trust i "Embarking from an airplane into an atmosphere of clove-laced cigarettes / A military", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal , November no. 39 2019;
1 The Release Samuel Wagan Watson , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 2 2019; (p. 99-103) Sūdō Journal , January vol. 2 no. 2020; Flock : First Nations Stories Then and Now 2021; (p. 39-44)
1 Songline Contraband i "Authorised visits,", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 413 2019; (p. 15)
1 Double Jeopardy i "I'd been on the road for weeks...hadn't picked up a newspaper or seen anything in the media", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2019; (p. 73)
1 Write and Wrong i "I know when a sentence goes south, when a word goes rogue, when the soil of a textual landscape", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , August no. 2 2018;
1 Temporary Ghosts Samuel Wagan Watson , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Reading the Landscape : A Celebration of Australian Writing 2018; (p. 141-145)
1 Forensic, All in One Breath... i "Be sharply accustomed to the anatomy of your writing; inside and out...Where you have", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Queensland 2017;
1 A Self-Help Book for Broken Writers : Some Zen Notes i "Try to remain in bed for a few days without picking up a single", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Queensland 2017;
1 Tugullawah i "We’d often give Dad a lift to work along this bent stretch of the river.", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Queensland 2017;
1 My Alphabet of Terrors i "We would lie on the floor for a spell, the voices of parents and grandparents", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 21 2017; (p. 18-19)
1 When We Dreamt like Kerouac i "Where Logan Rd and Creek intersect there used to be an old", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Queensland 2017; Australian Book Review , January–February no. 398 2018; (p. 48)
1 Old Haunts i "Cycloptic red-eye of a mosquito coil / burning into", Samuel Wagan Watson , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 1 2016; (p. 23)
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