Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (2878 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (2935 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (3080 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2774 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (3030 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (5132 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (3165 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (3594 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (3107 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (3102 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2941 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (2656 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (2862 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (5281 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (3065 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2586 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2531 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (3218 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2932 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3147 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (4156 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3653 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3079 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2856 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2865 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3181 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3218 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3169 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3357 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3191 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3727 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3532 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2978 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (3000 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (3569 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).