About Ian C. Smith
Ian C Smith’s work has been published in Across the Margin, BBC Radio 4 Sounds,The Dalhousie Review, Gargoyle, Griffith Review, Southword, Stand, & The Stony Thursday Book. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island.
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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...
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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..."
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Shelter — creative non-fiction
Being reclusive and being isolated are mot the same...
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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 ...?
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Verbal Misunderstandings — prose
Think before you speak; think after words are spoken.