Tim Loveday

Tim Loveday is the verse editor for Extinction Rebellion’s Creative Hub and the director of Curate||Poetry. In 2024 he came runner-up in the Cloncurry Poetry Prize, was commended in the MPU International Poetry Prize and Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest, and was shortlisted in the Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition. In 2023 he won the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, came runner-up in the Kyogle Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award. In 2022 he won the Dorothy Porter Award for Poetry. He teaches poetry and fiction at RMIT.

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The pool

Mum always says to me, you know what he’s like – your father. As if the old man is my responsibility and mine alone. Little wonder that legacy and liable have the same number of syllables. Of course I know what he’s like…so much so that I’m not even remotely surprised when one afternoon I hop off the school bus and come wandering inside with my little brother Jeremy in tow to find a big bald bloke sitting cross-legged at the dining table blabbering on about fibre glass this, solar heating that. On the table in front of Dad, a corona of shiny brochures.
‘We’re getting a pool, sons!’ Dad winks at Jeremy.

Aca-lyte

Poetry Che Guevara is white and wearing a shirt with his face on it, mansplaining Derrida or Adorno a hat like your grandfather used to wear though at least the man knew something about the great war [2]. This Che hasn’t worked out how...

what did you want to be when you grew up?

Poetrydad, did you ever want to live in a treehouse with a monkey butler? wear a helmet made of an ice-cream container? hoon across a sun-bleached bonnet like a slip and slide? rob a bank with an exploding umbrella?...

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