Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (2389 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (2484 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2512 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2258 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (2537 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (4579 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (2644 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (3100 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (2587 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2616 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2481 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (2187 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (2415 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (4731 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (2580 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2113 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2071 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2704 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2309 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (2655 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3669 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3118 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2561 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2354 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2396 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2655 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2726 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2643 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2827 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (2703 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3188 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3018 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2510 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2491 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (3039 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).