Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (2853 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (2920 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (3031 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2750 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (3006 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (5105 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (3143 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (3581 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (3070 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (3088 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2926 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (2644 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (2850 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (5252 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (3050 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2576 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2514 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (3204 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2911 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3123 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (4139 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3629 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3054 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2841 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2848 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3152 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3195 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3142 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3339 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3169 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3705 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3511 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2961 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2986 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (3555 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).