Publications

You can part with money and own a hard copy of some of the verse that first appeared on this blog, along with occasional other bits and pieces. You can send me an email at shawjonathan @ icloud . com (without the spaces), or buy at the links below.

BOOKS

A sixth collection of November verses, again with a few more.

Cover is a painting by Penny Ryan, Yunbenun 1.

Available for purchase from lulu.com, or click on this button to buy direct from me, for $10, including postage within Australia:

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None of Us Alone (Picaro Poets chapbook, Ginninderra Press 2021)

A selection of 24 poems from the previous five books, from award-winning independent publisher Ginninderra Press as part of the Picaro Poets series edited by Brenda Eldridge.

The cover is a photo of one of the thousands of ceramic hearts created as part of Penny Ryan’s Connecting Hearts project.

To buy direct from me for $8.00, postage and handling included, click this button:

Also available direct from Ginninderra Press.

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Take Five (self-published 2020)

A fifth collection of November verses, plus just a few others. The others include a longer narrative poem about the Innisfail Incident, which created headlines around the world in December 1928 and January 1929 and has since disappeared from our collective memory – until now. Cover is a painting by Penny Ryan, photographed by Alex Ryan.

Available from Amazon and lulu.com. Discounted price at Lulu is USD $9.43. Or to buy direct from me for $10, postage included, click this button:

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Four, Good Measure (self-published 2018)

Another three years worth of November verses, plus just a few others. Having in past years versified speeches by Alan Jones, Tony Abbott and Scott Ludlam, I have failed to do anything with the utterances of the 45th President of the United States. Cover illustration once again by Penny Ryan.

Available from Amazon and lulu.com. Discounted price at Lulu is $10.15.

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Third Time Lucky (self-published 2015)

Two years worth of November verses, plus fragments from other stuff written in 2015, and a versification of Tony Abbott’s speech relinquishing the prime ministership. Cover image is a sculpture in clay by Penny Ryan, photograph by Kate Scott.

You can buy a copy at lulu.com for the discounted price of $11.33. It’a also available at Amazon. Previews possible on both those sites.

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More November Sonnets and Other Stuff (self-published 2013)

A second collection, that goes back further in the blog and includes poems that have been previously published elsewhere. Cover drawing by Penny Ryan.

Available at lulu.com for the discounted price of $14.20. You can see a preview there as well.

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November Sonnets and Other Poems (self-published 2012)

A collection of light verse from the blog including 14 sonnets from each November from 2010 to 2012, and a versification of Alan Jones’s epic fauxpology for using Julia Gillard’s father’s death to attack her. Cover photo by Penny Ryan.

What I enjoy about these poems the most is their engagement with what another fine poet, Randall Jarrell, called ‘the dailiness of life’. Jonathan’s subjects can often be called ‘mundane’, but in a positive sense: they are about his world, and ours. They are snapshots of Sydney and beyond. And above all, they are snapshots of a playful, inquisitive intelligence bringing language and structure together for the delight of creation.

From the late Will Owen’s blog, Aboriginal Art and Culture: An American Eye

You can see a preview and buy a copy at lulu.com for the discounted price of $8.78.

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Individual poems published

‘In Another Village Miles Away’, Poetry Kit Magazine Nº 10 (2006?), (full text)

‘Bream, North Queensland, 1959’, Quadrant Nº 434, March 2007, p 51

‘Annandale Street’, Another Day – UK National Poetry Day 2007

‘Reading the Australian Papers with Walt Whitman on My Mind 12/12/2007’, Transparent Words 10 (full text)

‘Anatomy Lesson’, Harvest Magazine, Issue 2, 2008

‘A Pronunciation Lesson’, Going Down Swinging Nº 28, 2009, p 82; broadcast in Poetica: Hearing, on ABC 29 October 2011 and repeated twice; European Journal of International Law Vol. 25 (2014) No 4

‘Correspondence’, Going Down Swinging Nº 28, 2009, p 115

‘On Reading Horace Odes 3.2 with Rusty Latin’, European Journal of International Law Vol. 22 (2011) No. 4

’29 and 30 November 2020′, European Journal of International Law Vol. 32 (2021) No 1

‘The day the voice went silent’ in Telling Australia’s Truth: Poems selected by Stephen Matthews (Ginninderra Press 2024). The book is available for sale direct from Ginninderra Press at this link