About

John Knight's verse and haiku have been published in a number of little journals and books in Australia and New Zealand. He is a founding member of the Brisbane haiku group, Paper Wasp, and poetry editor for Social Alternatives. In his other life he teaches teachers at the University of Queensland.

Published by Metro Press, Currently Available from Post Pressed

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Reviews

Knight contributes an interesting self-conscious and self-mocking voice. He constantly reminds us as readers about the 'real', suggesting that intellectual games can be quite dangerous forms of mental masturbation.

Vivienne Muller

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Extract

from Short Lives

Grandfather's father
could walk five miles
with a sack of grain
under each arm.

His collar fitted
Great-Grandmother's waist
and he dropped dead at
thirty-five.

Five foot nothing,
Grandmother cleared bush
from the age of thirteen.

Each morning she'd go
with her father
to the thick scrub
and work till dusk.

Anything was better
than that, she said
so she married Grandfather
at seventeen
and had eight children:
five of them lived...

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