Fiona Hile is the author of a chapbook, The Family Idiot, and a full-length collection, Novelties, which was awarded the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. In 2012 she won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and was awarded second place in the Overland 2012 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of the University of Melbourne Felix Myer Scholarship for Literature and is currently completing a PhD on generic innovation in the work of Michel Houellebecq and JM Coetzee at the University of Melbourne. She is the editor of a Cordite electronic chapbook of poetic collaborations, Wandering Through the Universal Archive.
Riding on such instruments as a large aluminium
hemisphere, syndicated falconry of gifts and predilections
propose dilutions of solemn music played through ploughs
of lidding ink and fare renderings of infinite tapping bells.
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It's not as if they speak to us of some tequila
moonscape lost to sense, though the telepathy
of our own hand-coded secrets might. Python
Technology integrates our systems more
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We met at the end of the party
when all the lights were fouled
with drink and even the self-titled
Ouzo Animal was yawning in protest
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Growling and erudite in the crucible
of every situation is doing you channeling
circadian remnants of ‘must I reject
everything You are?' like ‘I used to
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Sitting with your back to the elm-filled window,
laked extract of ripe Buckthorn berries
retro-teaching skipping girl how to skip,
you applaud the absence of Mondrian Green.
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