Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (2212 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (2355 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2357 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2133 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (2401 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (4408 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (2513 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (2950 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (2438 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2492 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2358 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (2093 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (2281 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (4577 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (2448 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2009 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (1973 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2570 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2183 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (2512 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3527 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2961 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2430 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2225 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2262 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2503 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2597 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2507 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2706 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (2569 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3027 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (2886 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2392 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2359 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (2907 hits)

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OffTOPIC ...unexpected seasons in another sweeter place...

OffTOPIC If you have ever waited for a train....

OffTOPIC ...thinking a lot about someone who wasn't there....

OffTOPIC I emailed this poem....

OffTOPIC ...probably the first erotic poem I ever wrote...

OffTOPIC Inspired by Marx or "Backyard Bee-keeping" ?

OffTOPIC ..the work of sun and salt and the passage of time...

OffTOPIC From "Trail of Bones and Godstones"

Thanks, Ada...

Thanks, Motoc...

Thankyou Anca and Corina...

Thankyou, my dear readers....Thankyou so much....

There's also some physics, botany, geography.......

Thanks for your input!

Thanks for your interest...I'm finding it difficult to work out how to make a c

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Biography Philomena van Rijswijk

Philomena van Rijswijk is a poet, novelist and story-writer living in Tasmania. Her most recent novel, "The World as a Clockface", was published by Penguin. Her poems and short stories have been published in collections and literary journals in Australia, Ireland and India. Her work was included in "Best Australian Stories 2002" (Black Inc) and "Best Australian Poetry 2005" (UQP). Some of her stories have been translated into Hindi by Dr Aruna Sitesh and Dr Sitesh Aloke. One of the translated stories, "Shalimar Ke Bagh", was recently published in Sakshaktar (Sahity Academy).