Damian Balassone
@D_Balassone
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Poems in @nytimes @australian @canberratimes @spectator @SatPaper @TheLondonMag @LightPoetry @poemtoday & more. New book ‘Love is a Weird Cat’ forthcoming.
Australia
Joined January 2020
Short poem/epigram 'The Choir' in Warrandyte Diary this week.
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"The Storm" a suite of short poems published at Eureka Street today. https://t.co/wOITjYaTfD
eurekastreet.com.au
Despite the raging storm, I clearly see a figure on the Sea of Galilee/ a Son of Man/ with outstretched hands/ and he is calling me.
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Five of my poems are featured in @SatPaper today. https://t.co/3FDgj45rru
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Thrilled to share my short poem 'This Orphan Life' which appears in the @TheLondonMag today. https://t.co/pXdWFqXQLq
thelondonmagazine.org
Damian Balassone is the author of three volumes of poetry, including the forthcoming collection of short poems and epigrams, Love is a Weird Cat.
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The Importance of Religion Those who loathe religion are slow to contemplate that Lennon met McCartney at the church fête. Damian Balassone
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Damian Balassone was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972, the child of an Italian migrant family who had settled in the working class suburb of Collingwood. He graduated from Deakin Un…
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Thanks to @indaily Poets Corner for publishing my poem 'When the School Bell Chimed' today. https://t.co/3Kuj6yH5Rx
indailysa.com.au
In our regular Q&A column What’s My Scene, InReview speaks to emerging and established local artists to get their take on the South Australian creative scene and their place within it. This week,...
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A big thanks to @corditepoetry and editors @shastradeo and @lferney for including this very little poem in their new issue 'baby'. Grateful to be a part of this. https://t.co/x0IKlDEMYB
cordite.org.au
While salivating on a lamb cutlet, I rack my brains to write this damn couplet.
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My poem ‘Larkin was a Larrikin’ in the magnificent @LightPoetryMag, a big thanks to editor @MelissaBalmain for including it. Light Poetry Magazine
lightpoetrymagazine.com
BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT Larkin was a Larrikin Larkin was a larrikin; Larkin was a toad. He liked to take his lady friends to Cemetery Road and share a pot of English tea, way...
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The Hollywood Poems. Thanks to @EurekaStreet for running this suite of poems re the acting profession. https://t.co/l84M6QDsw1
eurekastreet.com.au
I have played Gandhi, King Tut, gangster, giant, elf, / but a lifetime of lifetimes destroyed my mental health: if you’re all things to all men, you’re no one to yourself.
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I finally managed to work Veruca Salt into a poem! - thanks to @EurekaStreet for publishing this suite of short poems today 🙏
eurekastreet.com.au
Where the highway of man and the desert intersects there’s a dude on a cross with a crown of spinifex who’s dying in the stifling heat. A mulga lurks below his feet, then slides across the sand...
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Thanks to Arena Magazine @arenatweets for publishing three of my poems this month, including this one ‘Love is a Weird Cat’. #poetrycommunity
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Thrilled to have this poem 'The House Across the Street' in the @canberratimes today. Big thanks to poetry editor PS Cottier 🙏
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Was reading these two magnificent books concurrently (courtesy of a book voucher I got for my birthday). Incredibly, they both took me to Sydney 1908 and Jack Johnson. I kid you not. Freakish coincidence. Thank you @MicWink & @JanakaMalwatta.
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For anyone chasing a light read, ‘Chime’, a selection of lyrics, ballads and narrative poems has just landed on @AmazonKindle - all for the price of a large coffee. Free sample in link below. #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
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