Three poems published in the Platform 15 literary anthology (published 'Summer of 2014, by Victoria University, Melbourne).
Go to PDF (download or on-line) of the Summer 2014 (15th edition) of Platform literary anthology. 'The Deity as Thunder God', 'A Poem is a Useless Thing' and 'The Glacier Serpent' are on pages 34-35 of the anthology, but you can also read many other poems and stories by Victoria University PWE staff and students as well as Western suburbs writers and poets.
Image above: 'South Island Glacier' copyright Ian Irvine (Hobson) 2011, all rights reserved.
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,