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Poems

You'll find below a list of Indrani Perera's poems that were published in print anthologies, literary journals (digital and analogue), as chapbooks and those that have placed in competitions or been awarded prizes. 

You can buy Indrani's poetry collections, pas de deux and Defenestration, here.

 

Anthologies

Dec 2024    pathika, (Heroines: An Anthology of Poetry Volume 5, editor Sarah Nicholson)

Jun 2024    Notes From the Diaspora on Returning 'Home' (Being, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research)

Jun 2024    Landline (Being, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research)

Feb 2024     no good at sport (Finding My Feet, Melbourne Poets Union)

Feb 2024     Seagrass Meadow (Finding My Feet, Melbourne Poets Union)

Dec 2023     Settler's Debt (Telling Australia's Truth, Ginninderra Press)

Sep 2023     Liquefy (Poetry D’Amour 2023, WA Poets Inc)

Sep 2023     The Ocean of You (Poetry D’Amour 2023, WA Poets Inc)

Dec 2022      dried apricots  (Shoot the Breeze, Girls on Key)

Nov 2021      The Scientific Astrologer  (Eclectic Words, Geelong Writers Inc)

May 2021      too late  (Milestones, Ginninderra Press)

May 2020     Apis  (From the Inside Looking Out, Geelong Writers Inc)

May 2020     We Ride the Night  (From the Inside Looking Out, Geelong Writers Inc)

May 2020     Intergalactic Tourism  (I Protest, Ginninderra Press)

Sep 2019       Gunnug Batur  (Mountain Secrets, Ginninderra Press)

Aug 2019       Recipe For A Poem  (Brushstrokes: Ros Spencer Poetry Contest 2016-19, WA Poets Inc)

 

Chapbooks

Aug 2024   Anthropocene (Queensland Writers Centre)

 

Journals

Dec 2024     Notes to a Magpie Sitting on a Fence, Carolling to the Trees (Australian Poetry Journal, Issue 13.2: Desire)

Dec 2023      Places You'll Never Go and Things You Won't See (Kalliope X, Issue 5: Spring)

Nov 2023     Light Years (Science Write Now, Issue 9: Migration)

Nov 2023     Yesterday is Today: the Migration of Memory (Science Write Now, Issue 9: Migration)

Jul 2023        At the Foothills of the Dandenong Ranges (Jacaranda Journal)

Jul 2023        Complicit: A Visual History of ‘Australia’ Since Invasion (Axon)

Mar 2023      Uncanny Valley (Mantissa Poetry Review, Issue 2: Re)

Mar 2023      Attention: Ferntree Gully (December 2020) (Mantissa Poetry Review, Issue 2: Re)

Dec 2022       $7.86 (hākārā, Issue 17: Repetition)

Dec 2022       Iteration (October 2022) (hākārā, Issue 17: Repetition)

Oct 2022        Dystopian Dreams  (Eye to the Telescope, Issue 46: Quest)

Sep 2022       The Poisoned Path  (The Crow, September 2022)

Aug 2022       Life Support  (Gems Zine, Issue 22: Nature)

Aug 2022       paper garden  (Gems Zine, Issue 22: Nature)

Feb 2022        a different brew  (Burrow, February 2022: Gifting)

Feb 2022        binding threads  (Burrow, February 2022: Gifting)

Feb 2022        Catching Some Zeds  (Burrow, February 2022: Gifting)

Feb 2022        The Toddy Tappers  (Cordite, Issue 104: Kin)

Dec 2021        A Good Listener  (The Crow)

Dec 2021        going viral  (The Victorian Writer, Summer 2021: Transformation)

Aug 2021       all she left unsaid (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)

Aug 2021        Come Out and Play  (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)

Aug 2021        on the ferny creek trail  (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)

Aug 2021        Shimmer  (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)

Aug 2021        Summer Alive  (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)

Aug 2021        Two Girls and a Swing  (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)

Aug 2021        A Lexicon  (Pocketry, Issue 2)

Jul 2021          Shelter  (More than Melanin, Issue 2: Intimacy in Solitude)

Jun 2021         Nana's Kitchen  (The Crow)

May 2021        Vanishing Point  (Teesta Review Journal, Volume 4)

May 2021        Kama Kunna Ena  (Teesta Review Journal, Volume 4)

Mar 2021        White Fragility  (Not Very Quiet, Issue 8: Mask)

Feb 2021         Never Seen  (Cordite, Issue 100: Brownface)

 

Zines

May 2025  Love vs Autumn (Slamtidote)

Dec 2024   Haiku in the Hills (editor AJ D'Costa)

 

Other

Mar 2025     Far Flung Seeds (Phone-a-Poem, Red Room poetry)

Sep 2024       by the book haiku (Poetry on the Big Screen at Northbridge Piazza, 2024 Perth Poetry Festival)  

Sep 2024       introduced species (Poetry on the Big Screen at Northbridge Piazza, 2024 Perth Poetry Festival)

Dec 2019       Edifice (Receipt Poetry, Yarra Libraries)

 

Prizes

Jun 2025      Longlisted                       Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize

Oct 2024       Longlisted                       2024 Frontier OPEN Poetry Prize   

Apr 2024       Shortlisted                      Heroines' Anthology (Volume 5, Global Poetry Edition)

Oct 2023       Highly Commended      University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize

Oct 2023       Longlisted                        University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize

Oct 2022       Shortlisted                       Jean Stone Award   

Aug 2022      Winner                              Red Room 30 in 30 Daily Winner, Day Four

May 2022      Shortlisted                       Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing: Open Poetry Section

Oct 2017        Winner                              Elyne Mitchell Prize: Non-Fiction Bonus Prize

 

Residencies

Sep 2024       Highly Commended       Terra, Varuna Residential Fellowship

 

 



  • Indrani Perera is a poet, publisher of the Pocketry Almanack and maker of useful things living in Melbourne, Australia. She is passionate about using natural materials and traditional methods to make the things she needs.

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