Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (2425 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (2514 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2559 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2296 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (2579 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (4615 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (2679 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (3126 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (2621 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2652 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2508 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (2219 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (2443 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (4774 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (2612 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2150 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2110 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2740 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2350 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (2688 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3701 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3160 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2599 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2391 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2427 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2688 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2759 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2683 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2869 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (2746 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3236 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3055 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2545 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2524 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (3073 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).