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Now this is poetry!
It has that dimension which separates the poet from the writer of contrived, masquerading prose [poetry] and from the structured rhymer. Thank you Eureka Street for publishing what is, to me, real poetry written by a true rather than a confected poet. I will have to read more of this bloke, Peter Mitchell. John Frawley on "Blood cancer solidarity"
Reading this, and other poems by Peter Mitchell today, for the first time, has changed the tempo of my day. It has interrupted routine with reflection and taken me to places outside my office, a few of them ones where I'd rather not be. But all the same, I'm glad I took the trip as my brain feels clearer; I'm looking through different lens now for a while. I'm recommending folks read Peter's poem called Robinson Lookout Lismore and the one called Stone. Together with these treasures, it's been an amazing, and unexpected, interlude in my workday. Thank you.Melanie James on "Robinson's Lookout Lismore"
A magnificent conflagration of poetry and patriarchyMichele Seminara (Managing Editor, Verity La) on "Eyes as Fire"

ABOUT PETER

Peter Mitchell

Peter Mitchell is a writer based in Lismore in Northern Rivers region NSW, located on Bundjalung land.

Peter specialises in writing poetry, short fiction and memoir. His writing has been and is published in international and national print and online journals, magazines and anthologies including, Verity la, Eureka Street, Landscapes, Windfall: Australian haiku, New England Review and Eucalypt: a tanku journal.

He is the writer of an amazing and highly commended chapbook featuring many poems about the hardships around HIV/AIDS patients in the St. Vincent Hospitals Ward 7, Australias first hospital ward dedicated to HIV/AIDS care.

He has a number of educational qualifications including, Post-Graduate Bachelor of Arts with 11A Honours (English),  Diploma of Education (Secondary) and Bachelor of Arts (Communication).

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Peters Awards

Peter has been awarded numerous awards, fellowships, residencies and grants. In 2001, he was awarded an Emerging Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre in Greenmount (WA), concentrating on memoir.  A recipient of the 2014 Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship for Poetry (Varuna Writers' Centre, Katoomba), he is presently writing his cross-genre memoir, Fragments of the Lurgi: A Mosaic on an Artist with Disability grant (Australia Council).

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Browse my recent books

'The Scarlet Moment, a 28-page chapbook, is a collection of poetry evoking a range of worlds using spare language and striking imagery.  Some of these shimmering pearls focus on the emergence of HIV in Australia with many poems documenting the experience of patients of Ward 17 South at St. Vincents Hospital, the first hospital ward in Australia dedicated to HIV/AIDS care.

Your poems [in The Scarlet Moment] are truly astonishing: heart-rending but imagistically sharpCyril Wong (SOFTBLOW Editor) on "The Scarlet Moment"
In these times of big data and empiricism, poetry becomes a space in which we can develop a subjective, experience-near, and multilayered perspective on the stories that many of us may think we know.
The Scarlet Moment is a grain of sand that will grow each time you read it. Warren Summers on "The Scarlet Moment"
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