Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Family Trees and I Love Poetry, which won the 2018 Queensland Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. Michael also edited Ashbery Mode, an Australian tribute to John Ashbery.

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While that was an intriguing/boring story, I was more interested in what my readers would be interested in: Hollywood and its sucking up of Australian talent, making them so popular they were like craft spokespeople, with indeterminable accents, paraded at black tie parties like weird big talking cats…

HAPPINESS. What an awful person! I love my dragon / When it’s There with its yellow eyes flashing like sunshine / It knows ALL About being eleven…can cough up bits / Of food in all kinds of River shapes.

My grandfather spoke more…more in
pastiche when he became widowed. Came down the Paris
boulevards looking for a mouldy stick.

any poem can be a diminishing thing / taken from the sea & standing in for you & / a remedy we eat what they eat but thats not / reality the spoon falls in the phone rings

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Michael Farrell

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On Meeting A Retired Orange

Drag The River

In The Year Of Our Modernism 1922

Four Poems