Articles by Ian C. Smith
Poem
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Stardom
() poem unrhymed
Ian C Smith's work has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, Australian Poetry Journal, Critical Survey, Live Encounters, Poetry New Zealand, Southerly, & Two-Thirds North. He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.
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In Imagination's Lighthouse
() poem unrhymed
"...I stare back at a chill of harboured currawongs beady-eying me..."
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War
() poem unrhymed
"...We would reach out to each other, safe for now...."
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Flash Blurbs
() poem unrhymed
"...Poems or prose, fresh, never insular..."
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The Geography of Loss
() poem unrhymed
"...Floodwaters sweep life's detritus downstream..."
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Silk, fluttering to earth, moonlit
() prose poem
"...when he told me of his wartime incident I buttoned up insolence, all ears..."
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The Shipwreck Coast
() poem triolet
"...he grieves fled youth by the wreck, gaunt-grim..."
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Those Dark Halls of Ambiguity
() poem triolet
"...scholars scouring vellum’s inked decay..."
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My Tennessee Waltz
() poem haibun
"...distant shires, domestic duties..."
Essay
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Shelter
() creative non-fiction
Being reclusive and being isolated are mot the same...
Prose
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Books Ago
() prose poem
"...I holed up in the Cotswolds sleuthing my shattered family’s heartbreaking tales..."
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Another Life
() flash fiction
"...What if I had lived an alternative life..."
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Ghost Train
() prose
Looking back, an ocean of life's memories...
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Confessions
() prose
The consequences of actions ...?
Short
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Minimalist
() flash fiction
"...squeezing what they can from life’s terrifying countdown..."
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Times
() flash fiction
"...Time in reverse possesses infinite possibilities..."
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Endangered Creatures
() flash fiction
The past is already extinct...