Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (2557 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (2629 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2742 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (2458 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (2713 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (4812 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (2851 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (3284 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (2773 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2796 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (2630 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (2355 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (2552 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (4959 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (2756 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2277 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2222 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2909 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2611 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (2825 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3839 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3334 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2759 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2548 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2556 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (2860 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2905 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (2845 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3043 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (2878 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3414 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3214 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2668 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (2694 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (3260 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).