Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (2383 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (2480 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2502 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2253 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (2533 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (4574 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (2636 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (3092 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (2582 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2609 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2476 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (2181 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (2410 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (4726 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (2576 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2109 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2067 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2697 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2301 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (2649 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3663 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3114 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2556 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2349 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2391 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2650 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2721 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2636 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2820 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (2698 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3184 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3013 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2505 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2484 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (3030 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).