Articles by Ian C. Smith

Poem

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.

"...I stare back at a chill of harboured currawongs beady-eying me..."

"...We would reach out to each other, safe for now...."

"...Poems or prose, fresh, never insular..."

"...Floodwaters sweep life's detritus downstream..."

"...when he told me of his wartime incident I buttoned up insolence, all ears..."

"...he grieves fled youth by the wreck, gaunt-grim..."

"...scholars scouring vellum’s inked decay..."

"...distant shires, domestic duties..."

Essay

Being reclusive and being isolated are mot the same...

Prose

"...I holed up in the Cotswolds sleuthing my shattered family’s heartbreaking tales..."

"...What if I had lived an alternative life..."

Looking back, an ocean of life's memories...

Short

"...squeezing what they can from life’s terrifying countdown..."

"...Time in reverse possesses infinite possibilities..."

The past is already extinct...